Hello there! It's been a pretty busy day so far. Unfortunately we were both up before 7am and were out the door and on the underground by about 8am. Today was another big sightseeing day with us hitting up the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, a vegetarian restaurant in the bottom of a Church, the Millennium Bridge (or Harry Potter Bridge as Mich calls it) and we stood outside the Tate Modern and Shakespear's Globe. But first things first. So...

Good afternoon from good-old London town! I've left the blog of the last couple of days build up so here's an overview of what has been happening in my life at the moment. Yesterday was a marathon. We had to buy our tickets to Oxford for the weekend and then the Eurostar for next Monday to Paris. After standing in line in a few places and asking many, MANY people which is the best way to get to Oxford and when was the cheapest time to travel to Paris we got our...

So comes to a close our second day in good-old London town. After we left the computers yesterday Mich and I decided to have a little nap and then get up for dinner and have an early night. Well, it turned into an early afternoon. By 5pm we were asleep in the dorm and didn't wake up until 5am the next morning. Very strange sleeping patterns we've got going here. So the plan tonight is to stay up until about 7pm and then go to sleep (a girl can dream right?) T...

Hello there! Today was my first full day in London after flying in last night. I have to say, the flight wsn't that bad. Lining up at the gate in Sydney I was beginning to get really excited and then when my boarding pass was scanned a 'bad sound' came out of the computer. I thought 'Oh god, they're going to kick me off the flight!' But no dear reader. It turns out that I had managed to snag a free upgrade to Business Class. The height of luxury to a backapcker ...