London!

So we've been in London for a few hours now, and finally made our way to the hostel (after a bit of a trek...), and are just killing time in reception until we can check in at 2pm, which is about 2 and a half hours away.

The flight from Singapore to London wasn't as bad as expected - probably because I decided to be the 'selfish person in front' and move my seat back for added leg room. That being said, I still couldn't manage to sleep for more than 20 minutes before waking up.



Leaving Changi, Singapore

The food was okay, we didn't get a choice - it was just fish, which was surprisingly good (plane food ruling so far). Also got Oreos and some other snack type food, as well as apples, which were horrible. I'm assuming they were Australian apples, but for the sake of blaming someone else, I'll place the blame on them being gross foreign apples or something.



Flying over Austria



Hahaha, hardcore mountains, mannnnn




London


Once we arrived in London, Sarah 'zipped' through all the official stuff thanks to her British Passport, while Claire and myself lined up with the rest of the 'plebs'. As a result of my Ancestry Visa I got through the whole process with only a couple of questions, but Claire on her normal holiday visa got questioned in something that resembled American Gangster (Crowe and Washington scene). It wasn't really that intense, I just needed to use a metaphore, and American Gangster is a cool movie.

London's Arrivals section is just full of heaps of men holding up signs for people they're picking up. Some guy had the worst sign ever, and for some reason chose to write it in highlighter. Why?! Stupid English man.

The tube is pretty simple and straightforward to use, despite looking like some sort of weird mess of lines and circles. For some reason the train driver needed to point out that "there is a delay on ___ line, because there is a man under the train". All four of us kind of looked at each other, thinking we had misheard it, but it was repeated later. No idea why they needed to be so specific...



Ben and Claire on the tube..

Since the tube ride, we've made our way to the hostel where, as I mentioned earlier, we can't book in until 2pm. Not sure what we have planned for tonight, but I think everyone is pretty keen on just sleeping.

I'm on the 3G UK 3 phone network at the moment, so I can now recieve calls for free (I think..), and messages and whatnot don't cost too much, so if anyone needs to get in contact with me via mobile on my old number, then you can now do so. Still haven't got a UK number yet..

Hope everyone is okay in Perth.


Mark