English weather sucks.

I've always been a fan of the cooler weather in Australia, but having to use public transport, live in an old house, and walk everywhere makes sunny weather all the more pleasurable. Unfortunately, there hasn't been too much of that here.

I've been pretty busy looking around London for the last few days. Sarah has preferred to stay at home, so I've gone to a few places that I didn't get the chance to go to earlier when there was more of us, generally because they were only of interest to me.

I caught the tube over to Kensington a couple of days ago, and went to Harrods, the insanely expensive and posh department store. With no intention of buying anything, I just took photos of all the cool, expensive stuff, including a set of mammoth tusks.








I then walked around the nearby Hyde Park, and followed that along to Kensington Gardens. Adjacent to this, I saw the Royal Albert Hall and the Albert Memorial Statue. There's so many cool parks here, and it happened to be a rare, nice, sunny day so the walk through the park made me long for football to kick around or something.






Yesterday I went to Southbank, and the surrounding areas. There's the popular skateboarding area underneath Festival Hall, which I had been meaning to check out. I then headed over to Tate Modern, and had a look around there. Not as interesting as I had hoped, but it was okay, I guess.








With a few hours to kill before work, I headed out to East London, more specifically Upton Park, Green Street and West Ham. Green Street has a movie based on it of the same name, although I didn't really recognise anything from the movie, except for of course, West Ham FC. The area is pretty rough, and as a consequence all the food was really cheap, so a sample of the local bakery produce kept me in good shape on the train journey back into the city. I had a look around the heart of Indian food in London, Brick Lane. I'll hopefully head back there this weekend to take advantage of one of the numerous all you can eat buffets.








With a couple more days in London, I'm still hopeful of checking out the zoo, Madame Tussauds, and going back to Camden. My last day of work is on Thursday, and we move out on Sunday. I've explored a bit of Fulham in the last week or so too, and I guess part of me will miss this house, even though we haven't been here that long. It even got the internet connected this week. Sucks we can only use it for a week, but it's better than nothing.









Fulham & Chelsea


One of the girls we live with is Spanish, and a couple other people have been to Spain, Portugal and Morocco, so we've got a bit of an idea about what to check out there. If we have time/money, we might check out a bit more of England up north, but we'll see.


Bye for nowwwwwww,

Mark.