Blogs from United Kingdom, Europe - page 2961

Today we got up again and were fed a pretty boring meal. It seems like breakfast is going to be horrible here, so it’s a good thing that I’m feeding myself. At least today we had some porridge or oatmeal which wasn’t too bad. However, if you are one of those people that don’t like breakfast, you’d probably do just fine in England because the fare is pretty bad. After breakfast I headed over to try and get on the internet. I got there a quarter till when it would open and waited in a huge queue until half past when it was to have been opened because nobody was there to give us the login codes. One guy hacked into it and checked his email then left. He refused to tell anyone around him how ... read more

I feel like I'm just living in London now, but I guess I *am* still a visitor, so I should probably tell everyone at home what goes on here. I've just spent some days shepherding Ange around the city, and have decided I could never be a tour guide. Tourists ask too many bloody questions. I had my standard defence worked out pretty quickly though; every time she asked what some building was, and I didn't know, I just said they were offices. Her trust in me may now be less than absolute. We had a good time though, and I'm a bit envious of her seeing London for the first time. I remembeer what that was like, and it would be nice not to be jaded about it again. I do still love it though, ... read more

I was never one to believe in conspiracy theories, though the events of the last few days have led me to believe that a massive, world wide conspiracy to screw Mitch and I is definitely in the works; being overcharged at cafe's, being given sketchy directions many many times, getting lost in London and Leeds more often than being found. These things might be the result of poor quality maps, bad navigational skills, poor planning and my assumption that everyone I talk to will be a nice person. However, now I realize that in cities this size if one is to survive, a certain killer instinct must be adopted... Our hostel in London was filled with drunk Australians, and so after a chill out night of sleep and jet lag, and a day in London checking ... read more

Hi Folks, Having talked to Australian friends here in the U.K, apart from the obvious, Sunshine and great beaches!! & the kookaburra chorus in the morning, there are an amazing array of food stuff's that they really miss about home while here in the U.K, here are just some of them, the list is endless: Twisties (cheese only), Cheezels, Burger Rings, Cherry Ripe, Tim Tams, Nutri-Grain (crunchy cricket bats), Pavlova with passionfruit pulp, French onion dip (made the Aussie way), Aussie bacon, Large beef sausages (not the piddling sausages we have) and T bone steak on the barbie, Samboy chips, Aeroplane Jelly, SAO bicuits, Iced Vo-Vo's, mangoes (the Bowen variety) , watermelon, pineapples (apparently they have huge ones!!) whiting fillets in beer batter, etc! etc! I have been asked to try all of these things when ... read more

Today some fellow students and I ventured to Camden Town, which has the best vintage shops I've seen so far, and to Hampsted Heath. Hampsted Heath is an enormous heath that has a hill called Parliment Hill which was told to me to be the highest point in London. Hampsted Heath also had the largest desk and chair I've ever seen (kind of odd location), I will insert some pictures to explain. Tomorrow some different people and I are going to visit the changing of the guard and back to Camden so that I can actually look around and do some shopping (light shopping, don't worry dad). I miss you all and hope that you are well! Love, Jen... read more