London

In London we stayed in another air bnb place this time owned by a guy called Tom. He was a lovely guy from Glasgow living in Greenwich and rented out rooms in his house. He was a Doctor selling a product that made your eyelashes grow longer and thicker. After arriving back in London at around 11pm that night we stayed at julia’s mothers once more (very kind mummy). The next day at around lunch time we headed over to greenwhich to put our bags in and settle in. After a bus trip and a walk in the rain we arrived at the house only to find a locked door in between us and where Tom had left us the keys. We had no phone....so we thought okay..... we will ask a neighbour the next door neighbours were very nice and let us use a phone but it was no good they were deaf and we couldn’t hear through their phone. I found another woman and a family down the street and she let us use the phone Tom was very apologetic but couldn’t get back before 6:30. So we were stuck outside in the rain with our bags it was only 3:30. We went in search of the shops aware that the walk was quite long having just done it from the bus stop. Thankfully we found a English pub. I got a beer and some bangers and mash and ep got ? we used there free WIFI and chilled chatting to a kindly waitor who kept asking why i wasn’t drinking fostors? Why would you ever drink fosters!!

When we got let in our host was so chatty he came and sat on the bed chatting away about this and that. Saw my Harvard med jumper, told me of the horrors of being a young doctor “blood money” ect. .. I was trying not to act freaked out but he certainly had a way to paint doctoring as a horrible career choice. After he left me and girly collapsed into a coma of sleep.

I woke up the next morning to girly jumping on me WAKE UP WAKE UP we have London to see!!!! Blargh I thought so tired....seen it been there. Finally she got me out the door. We went and saw Westminster abbey we got an audio tour (London is very into audio tours) seeing the graves of many a famous person. and the houses of parliament and big ben. After that we wandered up to Trafalger Square and the Strand to meet Julia and Henry.

EP will now speed up this blogging proccess in the hope that we will actually be up to date by the time we get home! highlights:

STEPHEN FRY. that's right. we were standing in the british museum with Henry and Julia, looking at an ancient Syrian game when we were joined by an expert giving a tour to some tall man, oh wait that's Stephen Fry! After 5 minutes of standing still and trying not to laugh hysterically, they wandered off and Queen of the sandwich was courageous enough to speak to Mr Fry, gesturing to the swooning Henry as 'his biggest fan'. we spoke briefly about how awesome melbourne is, took a picture and left to wander the streets in joyful confusion. so awesome and so british is he.

another highlight was the west end - 2 shows in 2 nights! First the lion king which was spectacularly beautiful, and then a comedy thriller called Death Trap, by the author of Rosemary's Baby, which was fantastic and scary.

we visited Hampton Court Palace for some true ye olde history and audio guides, followed by Kingston (town of kings) nearby, Ellie's childhood haunt. ate waaay too many baked goods including the cheese twisties of times past.

we spent most of day in Camden markets, which while touristy does still have some formidible punks hanging around, and lots of awesome cheap food. Julia began the decoration of her hair and Ellie continued hers.

on our last day we wandered much and ended up walking across the upper walkway of Tower Bridge which was much cool.

when back at Tom's we cooked and ate, our favourite pasttimes as always - Eleanor pasta for the win. England also has cookiedough icecream, something that makes me SO happy! must replicate at home.

i have now ridden a doubledecker bus, posted postcards into an English letter box and pretended to talk to someone from inside the proper London phonebooth. and walked across the Thames. a lovely lovely city!

oh yeah and we also passed by Argos, with the laminated book of dreams!

more news on the next big city soon! and then on the tiny village of Krokees!