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Arrived in London around 10pm on Saturday night. The flight to Malaysia with Air Asia was rough.... the flight to London was almost torture. Sleeping tablets had zero effect... sat upright for close to 14 hours, did read a couple books though. All in all, I am in no way looking forward to my return flight in 9 weeks.
Met a fellow Aussie aboard the bus ride into town from Stansted Airport - Snoop Dog was our driver. Dropped off in the middle of the city, could not of looked like more of a tourist in shorts, thongs, a 25kg backpack and a massive map in my hands... After quite a bit of stuffing around caught a cab to the hostel. We were absolutely destroyed so we did the smart thing..... and got into the duty-free alcohol we had bought in KL. 5 hours later after destroying Gin and Vodka, crawled to the dorm room to find some random girl asleep in my bed, would not wake up....therefore found myself asleep in the tv room of the hostel on some filthy couch.... Good times...
Awoke with a killer hangover, thanks to the fact this hostel only has freezing cold water that quickly sorted me out. Dingo and I manned up and headed off into the city, jumped aboard the one of countless double decker tour buses and went to take extremely ordinary photos of every sight there is in London. Ate a Big Ben burger, was the worst pub meal I have had in a while, 9 weeks of eating this kind of food is going to really destroy my body, well, that and the copious amounts of alcohol. Walked the whole city almost, as we are way too tight to get a cab, whipped out the big f*ck off map again and managed to navigate back to the hostel.
Once again, we were incredibly run-down and in need of a bit of rest, so - we headed to an Australian bar 'Redback'. This place was going absolutely insane at 3pm in the afternoon, and got more so for the following 8 or so hours we stayed there. Drank pint after pint, shot after shot - listened to hilarious music. The Redback is 'The Downunder bar of Brisbane on sterioids'... its hilarious to see how many other travellers with nothing else to do but get loose on a Sunday night all in the same place. Had some crazy Albanian lose his sh*t over a girl giving us his hat, quite bizzare. Passed out on the bus back to our hostel. Awaiting the hilarious photos to surface on facebook soon..... stay tuned.
Found a great little pub at Midday yesterday, caught up with a friend from Melbourne, so did what you do in London when its raining on a Monday - sank pints. Headed to 'The Tate' (Art Gallery) looked around and pretended to have an idea of what I was looking at.... ate another pub and had a horrendous steak and chips... then we walked back to our hostel via every single pub on every corner, as you can imagine, took some time....
I am no longer getting hangovers... which kinda scares me, as I leave for Amsterdam and our 17 day Contiki tomorrow, and things will only get looser.... has been a real struggle to attempt to write in this blog, will update from somewhere in Europe. Travel Tip #4 - walking the entire city in Thongs is a bad choice, feet are destroyed.
Off to hit up some multivitamins and insert a coffee IV into my arm.
Till next time
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