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August 29th 2006

Published: August 29th 2006

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flyingkiwi

Tree

Cool tree in the park

Right, it's been a few days since I added an entry, I haven't really had much of a chance to get into the internet cafe in the last week or so. Just a reminder that if you subscribe to this it sends you an email when I make an update, I don't think it sends any other junk.
Well I've done a few cool things in the last while. The weather has been up and down, but luckly enough up that I've managed to get to a few parks. The parks in London are really great, it makes you feel like you're actually out of the city, apart from the number of people! But even then you can always find a nice quiet spot under a tree or something. Yesterday I went to Greenwich and visited the Maritime Museum, it wasn't actually that great, pretty small and I thought there could have been a hell of alot of more interesting things, 80% of it was about the explorers who found NZ and passengers on ships. We had planned on then heading to the Greenwich dateline thing which is apparently up some hill or something, but I was pretty knackered by then

Marina in the park

Title sums it up pretty well.

and there was still Chinatown on the schedule so we flagged that and went into the city to chinatown, which smelled great! But other than that wasn't all that flash.

I had a great night on Saturday. There was a big music festival thing called South West Four on during the day with lots of DJs and such. I didn't go to that as it cost £30, but there was an afterparty at a place called Brixton Academy (http://www.brixton-academy.co.uk) and this time another of my flatmates could get people onto the guest list! We rocked up about 11pm and the main queue had to be seriously 100m long, it was fucken huge. We went to the guest list and there was a large queue there also, it took us about 45 minutes to get in! I hate to think how long it took from the main line. Bonus was of course that not only were we in quicker but it didn't cost us the £25 to get in! JUST to get in was £25. Yikes. Anyway, the place was amazing, really great venue, one huge main dance floor and a few smaller ones with different types of music. We

Squirel

These little guys are everwhere, not quite sure what he's planning on doing with all the crap in his mouth.

met up with a couple of my flatmates and had a dance and drinks and ahem, 'other stuff'. I had such a great night. Because everyone is on drugs, everyone is really friendly, there was no agro at all, we spent about 3 hours just sitting at a bench talking and meeting people. There were some really great DJs as well, one called Judge Jules especially empressed me and was the last to play. We ended up getting home about 8:30am, totally stuffed and unable to sleep so it kind of wiped out Sunday and most of Monday.

I'm heading to Edinburgh on Saturday, I've booked a ticket on the train, although I have no accom' booked yet, other than that I don't really have any plans. Marina is off home on Thursday, she is taking a bus! From London to Belarus! Europe amazes me like that, that you can take a bus such a huge distance and through so many countries, it takes her something like 3 days to get home. It will be really sad to see her go, it's been great to have such a good friend to hang out with, I'll really miss her. (It's

Squirel2

But he shot up a tree, maybe they make nests!?

not true 😉)

Anyway, here's a bunch of photos. There are so many I've reduced the quality quite a bit, if anyone wants a better quality pic let me know.

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