So this is actually going to be the three weeks we spent with Mum and Katie - part of which was in Scotland. They arrived in London on the 18th - of course we were still in bed, sick and getting over Ireland. We spent a few days in London and did some touristy things - Camden Markets (which we'd already been to but are awesome), London Dungeons (I was too chicken, Jess and Kate went, Katie loved it), Madame Tussauds (Gary Barlow, Ant and Dec), changing of the gu...

So so so... we went to Cardiff. A bit of a shock to the system after being in London as Cardiff 'city' is about the size of Wollongong. Except it has a big castle literally in the middle of it. When I get home i'm going to build a castle where the mall is. That will show you all. Ha! Anyway, it was very pretty. The hostel we stayed in was a bit dodgy - the bottom of it was all renovated, but they obviously hadn't gotten to the bedrooms yet. It was OK, until we t...

So we are in good old London town. We're staying with my (Sarah) great Aunt Shirley, and loving it. It's so nice to be in a HOUSE after being in all those hostels and hotels for two months. The problem is, it's a little TOO cozy, so for the past week we haven't gotten too much done. We've been into London a couple of times and seen Charing Cross, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the Tower Bridge... and we went to Greenwich and saw the meridian line. ...