Blogs from Canary Wharf, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 7

WEEK 3 Monday saw more searching online and applying for jobs, thankfully I got a call about one of the positions. They wanted me to go in the following day for an interview. I did this and it went well, and fortunately was rung up the next day and offered the role. The position is as a web administrator for Direct Line Insurance. I’m not entirely sure what this role entails yet, I think it will be similar to some of the work I was doing on the NZ Cricket website. The rest of my week was spent getting completely sh!tfaced. Well not really, I don’t have the cash at the mo to do a lot. I did have a few quiets that night though. Basically since then I have been getting ready for the job, ... read more

London - WEEK 1 After getting back from Menorca I was starting to run low on cash so I decided it was time to find a job. I decided that I should make the move from Barrow-In-Furness down to London and try my luck there. The night before I left the neighbours had a Guy Fawkes party so was good to say my farewells to all the locals and stuff my face with hot dogs. (Thanks to all of you in Rampside for making my stay so welcome) Anyway, I caught the train down to London and rolled into London Euston at about 6pm. This is when I realized that I had timed my arrival poorly as I needed to get across town at rush hour using the underground. This is bad enough without gear, but ... read more

Hi! This is Jase and Grace in London on our big OE! We've been here for 2 weeks now. Some words to describe London? em...... a) COLD!! b) everyone here speed walks! (really, they do) c) Busy, dynamic, melting pot d) you can find everything and everyone from around the world (its like the UN) e) a lot of artistic ppl here (eg ppl acting on the streets) f) you know how we normally keep LEFT on the escalators? here you have to keep RIGHT! g) can't expect ppl to be too friendly....definitely not like in Kiwiland! ......will get back to you with some more.... we've been to some of the highlights in London....u know..... the London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace....etc We watched Stomp on Thursday. that was really good. basically its a performance where ... read more

Dear all, Check out these 2 geeks that pulled sickies to go and see King Kong on opening day... Awesome! Enjoy, Aaron Danger & paulmatthewhart P.S It's the best movie in the world ever!!! P.P.S If Peter Jackson asked me to...I would.... read more

I do admire the weather forecasters in England, if they predict rain, the are usually right and not only do they accurately predict that it will rain but if they tell you its going to start at 11am, four times out of five (my experience so far) they get the time correct as well. I didn't want to wander too far away from home today because of the forecast, so I again hit the tube and jumped on the Jubilee line to Canary Wharf (a five minute trip from here). My first impression of it was that it’s an ultramodern, thoroughly planned mini city though on arrival I though it lacked atmosphere, there were very few people on the streets and there was no traffic at all. It was only when I went back underground that ... read more