Blogs from Putney, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

And we'll be on our flight to India! Ah, how I hate flying. So we've been keeping ourselves relatively busy over the past few days. Yesterday we spent a very fun and touristy afternoon at Madame Tussaud's, which was highly amusing. It would have been extremely expensive though: regular price is £25 PER PERSON, which is unbelievable. Fortunately we got a two for one deal though, so it wasn't quite as horrifyingly extortionate. I always get a laugh out of wax museums, and the figures at Madame Tussaud's are (scarily) well done. Prince Charles was especially lifelike, although I'm not entirely convinced that he is altogether different from a wax dummy. I got a creepily real looking photo of me standing next to Daniel Radcliffe as well. Paul seems to be adjusting to the skinny mattress ... read more

Ok, so when I wrote last we'd just flown back into London from Germany after a week of drinking ourselves silly at Octoberfest. After checking into rehab, I spent a week sobering up before telling Amy Winehouse that she had a face like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle, and was kicked out (somewhat harshly in my opinion). I went back to the bottle, found a burnt out old factory to squat in and funded my drinking habit by selling an assortment of baskets woven from my own hair. I bluff, I bluff. On the day we arrived back we got news that while we were away Lisa and Andre (who I flatted with last year) had found us a flat to move into. Before our trip to Germany we had been searching for a ... read more

Around The Worldhayley masonHey all, just getting used to this new travel blog site. Please keep checking whilst we're away to find out what we are up to! Thanks, Hayley and James! x... read more

I know, I know...it's been nearly three weeks since I arrived in London and I have yet to write a word about it. Same deal with my journal - it's all gone out the window! Oh well - here's a quick little update for anyone still interested. We arrived early one late August morning and made our way to Putney, the location of our 'flat!' It is such a cute little place - we've settled in quite nicely there. We spent the first weekend settling in and catching up with friends. Then after the long weekend, we set about finding work! This is probably the most expensive city to live in, so the stress levels were getting fairly high fairly quickly! I was registering with teaching agencies, temp agencies, and even handing my cv in to ... read more

Greetings! Well, my stopover in London en route to Asia is almost over already - i can't believe it! Let me backtrack a bit... I flew out of Toronto in style on the evening of June 15th. As I was boarding, a super nice British Airways man said: "Hang on dear - we're going to change your seat. Think of me as you sip your first glass of champagne!" I thought surely he was joking...but nope! He had kindly upgraded me to business class - likely because i was a young woman travelling alone and not so much because i was mistaken for a celebrity. We're talking bottomless champagne, lovely meals, private movies and a seat that reclined into a full-on bed! I was like a kid in a candy store...though i did my best to ... read more