LONDON!!!!

Welcome to the gate house... for more detail read on...

please note due to the probable amount of crap in the post,
please use the in-text headings to help guide your stay...

LEAVING AUSTRALIA

ok, well we got to the airport and everything was cool and no dramas till our place decided to come in late from sydney. this resulted in a short delay of your midnight flight to about 1;00am. Not as bad as it could have been as this shortened our long stopover (6 hours) at KL airport.

plane flight was really excelent. Night flight, spare seat next to us, good food and the best landing i have ever been in a plane for. Now dad says "any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing" but this one i didn't even feel the plane hit the runway. i was waiting for it as well.


WAIT IN KL

boring as all hell...

found a computer with short internet access to email home then spent the rest of the time walking around an extreamly boring airport.

LONDON FLIGHT

all 12 hours of it.
was good, once again we scored a free seat next to us which was great. i had the window this time to. i got to see the pretty landscape around KL the Bay of Begal, India, Pakistan, turkmenisan, Caspian sea (mostly under cloud) Poland (cloud) amsterdam (i was in the toilets as we flew over... P.S changing into jeans in the toilets is a skill!!!!) then over the channel (cloudy) and into london. We had to circle a bit waiting for a spot so i saw quite a lot of London from the air which was cool.

Got through immigration, thank god, luggage back fine and james came and met us at the airport.

we took four train to his place and it tool 30 mins total!! we didn't wait longer than 2 mins for a train at ANY station. It was also about 9 at night so that was pretty excellent. (p.s it was still sunny)

LONDON

The first thing is saw of london was getting out of the tube and seeing the Mile end marker. Pretty buildings. after a short walk we arrived at James's place. This is a pretty cool place to live. It is a whole heap of large flat building contained in a gated community with an officious looking guard on the gate.

the gate

The front buildings in the complex!!!! so many pretty gardens around them...

There are about 750 apartements in here, a bar, store, gym, pool and a red telephone tardis :-)

Ok so we live in this part of the complex, but it is still pretty dammn nice for London!!

drool away...

James and his flatmate are really nice and we had a great evening despite the fact that we had to go to bed (after 27 YES 27 hours on trasit we were buggered.) We ordered Chinese food drank some beers and went to the land of nod.

THURSDAY?? MORNING

We decided that we should venture out and go and have a look around. We went off on the tube. did NOT get lost on the tube and went to Westminster. I have never seen so many coppers running around with guns ever!!!

want to hear an oxymoron.

English copper, with gun, standing outside parliament, walking up and down whistling happily to himself, talking to pedestrians, with his gun ready in hands. Smiling away.

Had a walk around the westminster area, and had lunch outside Buckingham palace. Drank some Southern english beer. Not as bad as Chris said.

came home so the little darling can have a nap as i do this.

I will post some more photos when James and Craig come home and i can ask how much internet they have for me to upload photos.