London aint so bad

Well, we're here! We arrived in London 2 nights ago, the flight was long but somehow we made it. When we arrived the local time was 7:30pm but our origin time was 2:30am so we were fairly stuffed. It was really cool because Steve & Larissa and Anecia came to meet us at the airport and took us back to Alun & Anecia's place who are letting us stay with them for a while in Shepherds Bush (yes I know, funny name). It was also really awesome to find a warm bed waiting for us.. these guys are tops. They have looked after us so much.

So yesterday Esther and I (still quite jetlagged) checked out Shepherd's Bush and then took the tube to Oxford Circus station and walked around central London and checked out some shops etc, it was a fairly uneventful day which concluded with us crashing again at about 5pm. Today we got up, I was starving so we went down to the local all day breakfast for some tasty fried treats. Next we headed off to the Borough Markets. This place is awesome. There was just about every kind of food for sale here including some of the weirder things like Wilderbeast, Donkey, Impala, Rabbit, Deer?? So we walked around there and tried a lot of stuff. Next on the agenda was the Tower Bridge, aka London bridge which was looking picturesque with BLUE SKY and SUN (e: all those who said we'd see no sun .. ha!) in the background and then onto Kensington Palace / Hyde Park to try and find a squirrel. Not many to be found, but we will return again. Tonight we had a feast of cheese and donkey salami that we bought at the markets and then Anecia cooked us some beef and couscous and we had the "worlds best" brownies for dessert (my mum's are actually better). So yes, a good day.

We have just been looking into Tallinn in Estonia where we are heading next weekend,, apparently they are predicting maximums of -6 and minimum -11.. so we're a bit terrified about that.. Anyway 'till next time - Morgan

A few photos from London so far