Hey Guys,
It has been about a month since my last update, I hope
you are all well! Its now been about 7 months in London and I think its
fair to say that things have settled pretty much into a routine now,
especially when we aren't travelling. Over the last 4 weeks we have only
travelled once, to Madrid - which is not as bad as some people would
make out. People always say that Madrid is a bit of a letdown after
Barcelona but I actually don't mind Madrid at all. I think it comes down
to the fact that Barcelona is very much a party town, so if you want to
have a bucks weekend or go somewhere just to party, Barcelona is
probably your best bet. However, you also get the downsides of a
touristy, party town - the crowds, the tourists, a lot of rip-off
touristy food on las ramblas, multi language menus, more pick pockets
etc. The other big advantage of Barcelona is that it has the beach,
which Madrid doesn't have. The Gaudi stuff is pretty interesting but I
was unimpressed by the park, and the other gaudi houses are super
expensive.
Madrid on the other hand is more of a local's city. There is very
little English around, and although there is still a lot of tourists, it
doesn't feel overwhelming like it does in Barcelona. I actually found
the food in Madrid to actually be better on average than my experience
in Barcelona, in particular the Pinxos (small pieces of bread with
various toppings - ranging from olives and pickles to seafood to black
pudding and quails eggs) was really good. I also enjoyed the royal
palace, which was actually an amazing example of the decadence that the
royal family lived in. Amazing furniture, painted ceilings in every
room, beautiful golden chandeliers. I have been to other palaces before
but for some reason I don't remember them being as over the top as this
one was. The throne room in particular as quite impressive, with carved
lions on the sides of the thrones, and the dining room which had a long
table which seats 100 also a highlight. The other cool thing was the
armoury, where they had about 50 sets of armour. As some of you may
know, i read a lot of fantasy, and it was pretty interesting to see what
'knights' would be wearing. The armour has a LOT of pieces and i
imagine that it would have been pretty damn heavy and uncomfortable. Not
sure that it would be the best thing to fight in. The length of a
lance was also suprising, they were like 5m long.. which was a lot
longer than i expected. Also, the suits of armour were really small
which meant the spanish kings must have been quite short... (i just
re-read that and realised how nerdy that sounded... but oh well ;P)
Anyway, so I ate a LOT in Madrid, every few hours in fact. The kind
of went like this - Churros and hot chocolate in the morning, Jamon
Boccadillo (Spanish Sandwich) for morning tea, markets for pinxos for
lunch, pinxos for afternoon tea, and then restaurant for tapas/dishes
for dinner. Yeah. So pretty intense food intake. Which brings me to my
next point.. weight gain. Over the last 7 months, I've gained about 5
kgs. The slim fit shirts I bought when I first arrived - which fit
perfectly are now too tight around the stomach, and on the weekend Nancy
said I was too fat for my trenchcoat... I think the reason for this is
twofold. Firstly, when I travel, I eat. A lot. I make the excuse that I
need to try all the food in a certain place because if I don't have it
then and there, i'll probably never have it again, so i just figure,
screw it i'll just eat it. Secondly, the weekends used to by my exercise
days, in Sydney, i'd play basketball twice on the weekend but here i'm
travelling so it compounds the issue. so for the record, I am officially
going on a diet - until New York. The plan is lose 2-3kg before i get
to new york so I can gain it back in the week I'm there so at least i'll
have a net gain of 0... amazing aspirations i know ...
The other things I wanted to cover quickly, the weather has been
surprisingly (and unexpected i'm told) not freezing. This week, the
weather is about 15 in the day, not unlike a sydney winter. Usually,the
weather is in single digits in the day already so it has been
unseasonably warm. This has meant a few things. I've been able to find
some people to play basketball with, and play outdoors (this will have
to move indoors soon im sure), and all the money i've spent on winter
clothes so far has been a bit wasted.. which segways nicely into my
final point for this update... shopping.
I've spent a LOT of money of clothes since I got here. I think since
I've got here I've spent way too much on clothing. For those who know
about my budgeting spreadsheets i can see that since being in London,
I've spent WAY more on clothes than the last 2 years. Which links back
to my weight loss point - I have to lose weight so that these clothes
still fit. I think my sense of fashion has changed as well. Overall I
think people in London arebetter dressed thanin Sydney and i guess
subconciously you want to dress better to fit in. Also I think you have
access to much better clothing here than in Sydney, i mean people went
nuts at Zara, which is just a very average brand here as you guys know.
Work wise - things are bearable, i'm still basically in cruise
control mode, just treating work as something I have to do to fund my
travel and life in London. I admit that I'm not hating it as much as I
was a few months ago though so thats something.
Other interesting things I did this month - go karting last weekend,
first korean meal since i got to London and finally going to Bicester
village (outlet shopping).
Next update will be post New York! I
have literally 30 places to eat at while I'm there, i'm really looking
forward to that, and seeing Lee, Alex, Dush and my family of course :)
Will and Anny drop in this month as well...
So what have you guys been up to?
My life does revolve around food doesnt it. 3/4 of this email is about food... haha but i guess thats just me..
Write back!
Miles
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Miles in London Part 10 - 6 month anniversary
Hi All,
Happy 6 month Anniversary! Amazingly, its been just over 6 months since I left Sydney, and in all honestly, for me at least it doesn't seem like 6 months ago. It all still feels really new here, i don't feel like this is my city at all. I don't feel like I am 'comfortable' with London at all. I really don't feel like i know the best places to eat, I dont feel like I know the best places to hang out and I certainly don't have a routine here like I have in Sydney. This is not a good or a bad thing, its just the way it is at the moment.
In general, I would consider 6 months a LONG time, but maybe its cos I'm getting old but the last 6 months have really gone by in a flash. I still vividly remember landing in London on that first cold morning, catching my 80 pound cab to canary wharf and wandering out into the city for the first time. All of sudden, I've been working 6 months, which means 25% of my secondment is already over! I know that I have travelled a lot over the last 6 months, and that i guess what I think about it and count everything off , it seems like a lot, but it all feels like its happened in a compressed time frame, and my life in Sydney doesn't feel that far away at all!
This means its been at least 6 months since i've seen most you, and I'm sure that means you all miss me heaps! :P I know most of you have written back at some point and I really do appreciate you guys writing back, it makes the time writing these long emails worth while. I hope you guy aren't bored of these emails yet, and if you want me to stop bothering you, just let me know and i'm more than happy to take you off..
So how do I feel, 6 months in? The short anwser is that I'm really enjoying London as a place to live. I thought that one of the biggest things about moving to London would be adjusting to living on my own, and that I would feel all grown up and stuff I had to look after myself. You know what, moving out is massively overated. I don't feel any more mature than I did back in Sydney. I mean, sure mum doesn't cook me breakfast every moring anymore, so I just have a glass of juice and get a croissant on the way to work... So she doesnt wash my clothes for me anymore... so i just throw it into the washing machine myself... (which reminds me.. i have to move the clothes to the dryer..... and im back..). I thought this whole moving out of home thing would make me feel more grown up but really it justs more annoying..and more expensive. Rent is annoying to pay.. it was so much better to live at home!
I know that guys who live at home are looked down on as some kind of incompetent moron, but honestly, its not that hard to move out, and it doesn't mean that any more of man/adult just cos i can do some chores.. its really not that hard.. I cook some, I clean some, and the stuff u don't do well the first time, you learn to do better by looking it up on google and you tube. I've been thinking about this and the biggest factor in my situation is that i'm fortunate enough in my financial situation that i'm not in the position where i can't afford essentials or can pay abit to make my life a bit easier if I need to. E.g. if i'm too lazy to responsible and buy supermarket food and cook food at home, I can afford to eat out. I was able to pay a bit more for my apartment so that I could have the convenience to live near the station and I've been lucky to be able to travel on the weekend too.
I'm not saving much at the moment but thats mostly due to the travel i'm doing, so you could argue thats definitely more of question about lifestyle..
The last few weeks have definitely been more quiet, we've cut back a lot on travel. Danny came to visit so I spent a few days in Amsterdam to chill out, and there actually hasn't been any weekend trips in the last few weeks. We also aren't travelling till mid October! So thats like 6 weekends in London in a row, a new record! The main reason is that Nancy is saving up to go to HK in Jan and I'm saving up to go to NYC and go nuts during the thanksgiving sales - Lee/Alex, its time to book me into Per Se and Momofuku!
Other highlights in the last few weeks have been Deb visiting from Cape Town, (can't believe its been a YEAR since Africa) and going to Yauatcha, going to my first 2 Michelin star restaurant @The Square with Danny, having my first Pho Tai tonight in 6 months - actually pretty good, about an average sydney standard - not as good as cabra or bankstown but definitely hit the spot for my pho craving, finally having my first good steak @Hawksmoore and the AMAZING weather we've been having here in London over the last week.
Everyone told me that it would get cold in September, but its just come October and we just had 28C in London, apparently UNHEARD OF. Its been fantastic, and we've spend the last 2 days doing what all Londoners do when its sunny, we went to park and had a picnic! Everyone is pretty sure this is the last sun we'll see for 6 months so everyone is enjoying it while they can. Every casual conversation you have in the street is commenting about how amazing the weather is. You guys don't understand how excited Londoners get when its sunny this late in the year, people can't believe their luck. You know, I haven't had a winter since July last year - it been 14 months of warm weather for me, Japan, Africam Australia and Europe, all during the summer.. this next 6 months of darkness/cold is going to really be a shock to the system, considering i've never lived in a cold weather city during winter in my life EVER.
Anyway, I think i'll let you guys go now. I'm really enjoying London at the moment, and I hope you guys have also had a great 6 months. Write back if you guys get a chance, and tell me whats you've noticed has changed over the last 6 months?
Hope to talk to you guys soon!
Miles
Happy 6 month Anniversary! Amazingly, its been just over 6 months since I left Sydney, and in all honestly, for me at least it doesn't seem like 6 months ago. It all still feels really new here, i don't feel like this is my city at all. I don't feel like I am 'comfortable' with London at all. I really don't feel like i know the best places to eat, I dont feel like I know the best places to hang out and I certainly don't have a routine here like I have in Sydney. This is not a good or a bad thing, its just the way it is at the moment.
In general, I would consider 6 months a LONG time, but maybe its cos I'm getting old but the last 6 months have really gone by in a flash. I still vividly remember landing in London on that first cold morning, catching my 80 pound cab to canary wharf and wandering out into the city for the first time. All of sudden, I've been working 6 months, which means 25% of my secondment is already over! I know that I have travelled a lot over the last 6 months, and that i guess what I think about it and count everything off , it seems like a lot, but it all feels like its happened in a compressed time frame, and my life in Sydney doesn't feel that far away at all!
This means its been at least 6 months since i've seen most you, and I'm sure that means you all miss me heaps! :P I know most of you have written back at some point and I really do appreciate you guys writing back, it makes the time writing these long emails worth while. I hope you guy aren't bored of these emails yet, and if you want me to stop bothering you, just let me know and i'm more than happy to take you off..
So how do I feel, 6 months in? The short anwser is that I'm really enjoying London as a place to live. I thought that one of the biggest things about moving to London would be adjusting to living on my own, and that I would feel all grown up and stuff I had to look after myself. You know what, moving out is massively overated. I don't feel any more mature than I did back in Sydney. I mean, sure mum doesn't cook me breakfast every moring anymore, so I just have a glass of juice and get a croissant on the way to work... So she doesnt wash my clothes for me anymore... so i just throw it into the washing machine myself... (which reminds me.. i have to move the clothes to the dryer..... and im back..). I thought this whole moving out of home thing would make me feel more grown up but really it justs more annoying..and more expensive. Rent is annoying to pay.. it was so much better to live at home!
I know that guys who live at home are looked down on as some kind of incompetent moron, but honestly, its not that hard to move out, and it doesn't mean that any more of man/adult just cos i can do some chores.. its really not that hard.. I cook some, I clean some, and the stuff u don't do well the first time, you learn to do better by looking it up on google and you tube. I've been thinking about this and the biggest factor in my situation is that i'm fortunate enough in my financial situation that i'm not in the position where i can't afford essentials or can pay abit to make my life a bit easier if I need to. E.g. if i'm too lazy to responsible and buy supermarket food and cook food at home, I can afford to eat out. I was able to pay a bit more for my apartment so that I could have the convenience to live near the station and I've been lucky to be able to travel on the weekend too.
I'm not saving much at the moment but thats mostly due to the travel i'm doing, so you could argue thats definitely more of question about lifestyle..
The last few weeks have definitely been more quiet, we've cut back a lot on travel. Danny came to visit so I spent a few days in Amsterdam to chill out, and there actually hasn't been any weekend trips in the last few weeks. We also aren't travelling till mid October! So thats like 6 weekends in London in a row, a new record! The main reason is that Nancy is saving up to go to HK in Jan and I'm saving up to go to NYC and go nuts during the thanksgiving sales - Lee/Alex, its time to book me into Per Se and Momofuku!
Other highlights in the last few weeks have been Deb visiting from Cape Town, (can't believe its been a YEAR since Africa) and going to Yauatcha, going to my first 2 Michelin star restaurant @The Square with Danny, having my first Pho Tai tonight in 6 months - actually pretty good, about an average sydney standard - not as good as cabra or bankstown but definitely hit the spot for my pho craving, finally having my first good steak @Hawksmoore and the AMAZING weather we've been having here in London over the last week.
Everyone told me that it would get cold in September, but its just come October and we just had 28C in London, apparently UNHEARD OF. Its been fantastic, and we've spend the last 2 days doing what all Londoners do when its sunny, we went to park and had a picnic! Everyone is pretty sure this is the last sun we'll see for 6 months so everyone is enjoying it while they can. Every casual conversation you have in the street is commenting about how amazing the weather is. You guys don't understand how excited Londoners get when its sunny this late in the year, people can't believe their luck. You know, I haven't had a winter since July last year - it been 14 months of warm weather for me, Japan, Africam Australia and Europe, all during the summer.. this next 6 months of darkness/cold is going to really be a shock to the system, considering i've never lived in a cold weather city during winter in my life EVER.
Anyway, I think i'll let you guys go now. I'm really enjoying London at the moment, and I hope you guys have also had a great 6 months. Write back if you guys get a chance, and tell me whats you've noticed has changed over the last 6 months?
Hope to talk to you guys soon!
Miles
Miles in London - Part 8
Hey guys!
I had written about a page of this email which I somehow to lose out of gmail, even out of the drafts folder. I must have hit the perfect combination of shortcut keys which meant not only did it exit from this window but I also managed to discard the draft as well. Unbelievable.
Its REALLY annoying to have to literally rewrite which I had spent the previous 15 mins writing, so luckily for all of you who have complained that these emails are too long, this will become shortened..
Its been been a pretty crazy 2 weeks since I last emailed. Work has been really busy finishing up a project and I have been to Scotland for almost a week and then Barcelona for the best part of 4 days, so pretty action packed on this end. I hope you are all well where you are, I know that you guys have weddings to plan, new boyfriends to entertain, new cars to drive, your own holidays etc, so write back with all the exciting things that you guys are up to! Sometimes I send these emails out and not many of you reply sometimes, so it would be good to get an update on what you guys are all up to.
I'll break this email up into parts so hopefully it will be easy to read.
Work
Work has been really busy - i actually got put on a project I enjoyed and the partner on the project went on holidays for the first 3 weeks of a 5 week project, which meant I was left to my own devices. It was good to get back to doing something i actually found interesting and actually work at the level I'm used to back in Australia and not a level below, which was what had previously been happening. Unfortunately, my holidays were right in the last 2 weeks of the project which was not ideal. It was OK for me, but I think the team had to work harder in my absence which I feel slightly bad about, but in my defence I was taking calls from Scotland to make sure that they were on the right track and to answer any questions they had. So after several late nights in between Scotland and Barcelona, I think we managed to keep the client and the partner happy. So for the first time since I've been here, work isn't a source of major complaints. Besides the fact that I have to work at all, I'm still looking to be a househusband at some point in the near future....
Scotland
Our trip to Scotland was in two parts, firstly a 3 day tour of the Scottish highlands starting from Edinburgh (Edinburgh and Glasgow are in the lowlands) with haggis adventures - whose slogan is 'wild and sexy'. I know this is pure marketing but I was a bit surprised that they didn't try to play up to this at all during the tour. I mean even contiki does the whole traffic light thing (everyone gets 3 colors at the start of the tour green = available, yellow = maybe, red = not interested) but there was nothing to show that the big slogan on the side of the bright yellow bus was true.... The highlands are quite beautiful - think new zealand but less lush and more desolate. The Scottish moors are beautiful in a barren, eerie way and ever since watching 'highlander' i've wanted to go to scotland and see what it was really like, and yes it is just like in the movies!
It does rain a lot in scotland though and for the first few days we did get severely rained on. The highlights of the tour include general scenery, visiting a nice scottish castle on a lake, the isle of skye (great scenery) a interesting and informative talk about traditional scottish life (how to wear a kilt, weapons used etc) where 2 people on the tour were dressed in traditional scottish garb - this is not quite the same as the kilts you see today. The main thing that i don't understand about this as why the traditional scottish kilt does not appear to be very warming. For a place as cold as scotland - lots of snow in winter, teens in the summer - how could people go around wearing just some kilt? The loch ness was not particuarly a highlight, it is massively touristy, and gimicky with lots of models of fake nessies and where we took our boat tour, there were heaps of little midges which are really annoying and bite your face etc...
Overall, a good tour which i would recommend to get a taste of the scottish highlands.
We returned from the tour on Friday where we met up with Nancy V, Jean, Helen and Matty at our hostel. The hostel was managed by quite an eccentric guy (JonJo) who seemed to take a lof pleasure in showing us how the lights in the room were able to dim, and the admittedly nice recreation room with projector.. When we checked out on Monday morning at 10am (the prescribed checkout time) the manager was still completley drunk from the night before and answered the door with his sunglasses on and reeking of alcohol.. did I mention that he slept in the office as well? Im a little recess you access through a ladder...
The main reason we were in edinburgh was actually for the fringe festival and we saw some great shows while we were there. There are a lot of great 'free' shows there too, mostly late night stand up. It usually features 3-4 comedians doing 10-15 minute sets and you are asked to give donation at the end but you don't have to. Generally, these are all in pubs/clubs with rooms set aside for these shows and in general these are quite good. We saw a few duds, in particular one guy with the 'Richard Mercer' voice but he just wasn't very funny... he had one sketch where he was playing a washed up james bond and put a gun to head to kill himself... not funny.. The best thing we saw while we were there was by far 'baby loves candy' which is a group that does improv musicals - the crowd yells out names of random musicals, past musicals include 'Jersey Whore'. and our one was 'The Last of the Norweigans'. This was absolutely hilarious and quite clever! We also saw Margaret Cho - shes the bisexual american woman. Nancy didn't like her at all, shes quite crude, talks about her vagina, oral sex, and toilet humour, in other words right up my alley. I found her quite funny, but the most interesting thing was how polished she was compared to any other act we saw. She was just smooth and you could tell she knew exactly what she was doing. With almost all other stand up acts we saw, there would be moments of hesitation, or they would get put off by some heckler etc, but margaret cho to her credit, put on a very professional show.
Edinburgh as a city is quite nice, there is a lot of nice old architecture there, the royal mile is great to walk downand there are so many old pubs everywhere. My one regret is not being able to see the Royal Military Tattoo which is supposed to be amazing. I guess i'll have to go back for that.
I found food in general to be quite good and we had some nice meals there, in particular a nice fish and chips place called seadogs.
London
We got back to London at about 11pm on Monday night and I was up at 5am to go to birmingham for work, where we pulled a couple of 2am's and I got back to London on Thursday night at about 11pm. We got up at 3am for our bus to take us to the airport for our trip to Barcelona on Friday.....
To be continued - I can see eyes glazing over already so I'll tell you about Barcelona in the next email - pictures are already on facebook!
Coming up -
Berlin with Alby and Linda
Amsterdam with Danny
NYC for Thanksgiving!
Hope you all write back soon!
Take care
Miles
I had written about a page of this email which I somehow to lose out of gmail, even out of the drafts folder. I must have hit the perfect combination of shortcut keys which meant not only did it exit from this window but I also managed to discard the draft as well. Unbelievable.
Its REALLY annoying to have to literally rewrite which I had spent the previous 15 mins writing, so luckily for all of you who have complained that these emails are too long, this will become shortened..
Its been been a pretty crazy 2 weeks since I last emailed. Work has been really busy finishing up a project and I have been to Scotland for almost a week and then Barcelona for the best part of 4 days, so pretty action packed on this end. I hope you are all well where you are, I know that you guys have weddings to plan, new boyfriends to entertain, new cars to drive, your own holidays etc, so write back with all the exciting things that you guys are up to! Sometimes I send these emails out and not many of you reply sometimes, so it would be good to get an update on what you guys are all up to.
I'll break this email up into parts so hopefully it will be easy to read.
Work
Work has been really busy - i actually got put on a project I enjoyed and the partner on the project went on holidays for the first 3 weeks of a 5 week project, which meant I was left to my own devices. It was good to get back to doing something i actually found interesting and actually work at the level I'm used to back in Australia and not a level below, which was what had previously been happening. Unfortunately, my holidays were right in the last 2 weeks of the project which was not ideal. It was OK for me, but I think the team had to work harder in my absence which I feel slightly bad about, but in my defence I was taking calls from Scotland to make sure that they were on the right track and to answer any questions they had. So after several late nights in between Scotland and Barcelona, I think we managed to keep the client and the partner happy. So for the first time since I've been here, work isn't a source of major complaints. Besides the fact that I have to work at all, I'm still looking to be a househusband at some point in the near future....
Scotland
Our trip to Scotland was in two parts, firstly a 3 day tour of the Scottish highlands starting from Edinburgh (Edinburgh and Glasgow are in the lowlands) with haggis adventures - whose slogan is 'wild and sexy'. I know this is pure marketing but I was a bit surprised that they didn't try to play up to this at all during the tour. I mean even contiki does the whole traffic light thing (everyone gets 3 colors at the start of the tour green = available, yellow = maybe, red = not interested) but there was nothing to show that the big slogan on the side of the bright yellow bus was true.... The highlands are quite beautiful - think new zealand but less lush and more desolate. The Scottish moors are beautiful in a barren, eerie way and ever since watching 'highlander' i've wanted to go to scotland and see what it was really like, and yes it is just like in the movies!
It does rain a lot in scotland though and for the first few days we did get severely rained on. The highlights of the tour include general scenery, visiting a nice scottish castle on a lake, the isle of skye (great scenery) a interesting and informative talk about traditional scottish life (how to wear a kilt, weapons used etc) where 2 people on the tour were dressed in traditional scottish garb - this is not quite the same as the kilts you see today. The main thing that i don't understand about this as why the traditional scottish kilt does not appear to be very warming. For a place as cold as scotland - lots of snow in winter, teens in the summer - how could people go around wearing just some kilt? The loch ness was not particuarly a highlight, it is massively touristy, and gimicky with lots of models of fake nessies and where we took our boat tour, there were heaps of little midges which are really annoying and bite your face etc...
Overall, a good tour which i would recommend to get a taste of the scottish highlands.
We returned from the tour on Friday where we met up with Nancy V, Jean, Helen and Matty at our hostel. The hostel was managed by quite an eccentric guy (JonJo) who seemed to take a lof pleasure in showing us how the lights in the room were able to dim, and the admittedly nice recreation room with projector.. When we checked out on Monday morning at 10am (the prescribed checkout time) the manager was still completley drunk from the night before and answered the door with his sunglasses on and reeking of alcohol.. did I mention that he slept in the office as well? Im a little recess you access through a ladder...
The main reason we were in edinburgh was actually for the fringe festival and we saw some great shows while we were there. There are a lot of great 'free' shows there too, mostly late night stand up. It usually features 3-4 comedians doing 10-15 minute sets and you are asked to give donation at the end but you don't have to. Generally, these are all in pubs/clubs with rooms set aside for these shows and in general these are quite good. We saw a few duds, in particular one guy with the 'Richard Mercer' voice but he just wasn't very funny... he had one sketch where he was playing a washed up james bond and put a gun to head to kill himself... not funny.. The best thing we saw while we were there was by far 'baby loves candy' which is a group that does improv musicals - the crowd yells out names of random musicals, past musicals include 'Jersey Whore'. and our one was 'The Last of the Norweigans'. This was absolutely hilarious and quite clever! We also saw Margaret Cho - shes the bisexual american woman. Nancy didn't like her at all, shes quite crude, talks about her vagina, oral sex, and toilet humour, in other words right up my alley. I found her quite funny, but the most interesting thing was how polished she was compared to any other act we saw. She was just smooth and you could tell she knew exactly what she was doing. With almost all other stand up acts we saw, there would be moments of hesitation, or they would get put off by some heckler etc, but margaret cho to her credit, put on a very professional show.
Edinburgh as a city is quite nice, there is a lot of nice old architecture there, the royal mile is great to walk downand there are so many old pubs everywhere. My one regret is not being able to see the Royal Military Tattoo which is supposed to be amazing. I guess i'll have to go back for that.
I found food in general to be quite good and we had some nice meals there, in particular a nice fish and chips place called seadogs.
London
We got back to London at about 11pm on Monday night and I was up at 5am to go to birmingham for work, where we pulled a couple of 2am's and I got back to London on Thursday night at about 11pm. We got up at 3am for our bus to take us to the airport for our trip to Barcelona on Friday.....
To be continued - I can see eyes glazing over already so I'll tell you about Barcelona in the next email - pictures are already on facebook!
Coming up -
Berlin with Alby and Linda
Amsterdam with Danny
NYC for Thanksgiving!
Hope you all write back soon!
Take care
Miles
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