Blogs from Fulham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

I know, I'm sorry I am incredibly slack!! My first few weeks here were quite hard because I was watching my money supplies dwindle, the news announcing night after night that another company has gone bankrupt and made thousands of people jobless and competing with everyone else for any kind of work. Typical, I arrive and the country decides to go into a recession!! But it hasn't been all bad, I found a place to stay very easily with a mate and everyone has looked after me here. My first weekend here my housemate took me to Church . . . not that type of church. This is a pub that is only open for about 4 hours a week, you can only by drinks in lots of 3 and you get them in a little ... read more

Hello there We have been in London for just over two months now so in that time we have developed some opinions on the place. Firstly, the UK and particularly London seems like quite a violent place. Vancouver had a lot of violence but most of it was gang related and didn't usually involve random attacks on the general public. Over here there it seems like most of the stories you hear about involve quite disturbing random acts of appalling violence against innocent people, a lot of it involving young people (there have been a few fights on Tubes that I have been in, one involving a couple of school boys probably 11 or 12 years old on there way to school). There is of course the gang related violence as well. I read one of ... read more

It has been the most unbelievable start to the year - nothing like normal life or living! Christmas Roma style in London was a blast! There was so much food, Wii competitions, and we have never seen so many presents in all our days. But it was honestly just so much fun. We spent Christmas day at Mark's cousins, Tony and Lisa's house and they put on the full Roast with all the trimmings. And it actually felt like a proper Christmas. Now don't get me wrong, Christmas at home is great, but with the cold weather outside and the ice on the cars, it felt like we were experiencing the real thing. There was no snow and it rained most of the day, but it's true that after a couple of hours there was a ... read more

Australia vs Nigeria Friendly match @ Fulham Craven Cottage... read more

The plane trip was long, very, very long, but thai airways are fantastic i got 2 full meals each section of the flight, good food! first dinner i chose red lamb curry and i got 2 salads i also got fresh fruit later & they give you little hot towels to refresh yourself with as well so it was pretty good. I arrived at 7am yesterday (friday) but it took me 2 hours to get through the passport screening - an american flight landed at the same time as mine. Poor stu was worried because it usually doesn't take that long and he rang nige to see that i got on the plane okay. Thanks Stu!!!! I eventually called him & caught the tube & met up with him, we went back to his place which ... read more