Scared, that's not in my vocabulary.

Yesterday was a whirlwind, I'll compare it to watching the new Batman movie, every moment something exciting was happening, it just never stopped, and you didn't want it to. So lets get into the nitty gritty details, frankly because I'm sure you'll love to hear how Jess punched a London fella (he was asking for it) in the face.

We visited Madame Tussauds in the morning. It was a surreal experience, seeing wax figures, that so closely resembled their real life counter parts. My favourites would have to be the Royal Family shot! It was spectacular. Madame Tussauds has been specifically planned out to give the visitor the most information possible.


You go though a journey, posing with celebrities, then world leaders, sporting stars, the Royal family and historic moments. We then reached the "Horrible Histories" section, a more accurate name would be "A black room, with screaming sounds, mirrors, dead animals, pitch black, with REAL LIFE people jumping and screaming out at you, Hope you enjoy your stay". Each turn brought a new terror to your sight, and if there wasn't a person there ready to take years of your life, the anticipation did instead.

Needless to say Jess and I were glued together as we took the first step, I think Caitlin having experienced similar scary shows at the Royal show, was slightly more prepared than us. In our minds we were like, pft we did the London Dungeons, as if this could be worse. We were wrong.

Five metres in, on the tenth bend, Caitlin was gone for my sight, and made a run for it. Jess was squeakily edging forward as, hands stuck together we kept look out left right, in front, left right, in "ARGGGGHHHHHH".

Some idiot jumped right into Jess's face, and well, up came Jess's fist with her water bottle to boot, poor fella. But honestly what did he expect? Quite a hazardous job really.

Lucky he only had a sore nose, not a broken one. He simply said in a scary voice that had Jess and I quaking, "Hands down girrrrlll". Oh, she put her hands down, as we started almost running with our eyes shut to get out of this hell place.

Caitlin came out looking like the terminator, whilst Jess and I came out shaking, and sweating, decidedly scarred for life.

From there on we went to the cartoon was section which was great. Watched a 4D film, with the water that sprays on you, and kidney punchers in your seats. Was very entertaining indeed.

With a sigh of relief and sadness, mostly relief, this brought the experience of Madame Tuassauds to an end.

Using the Tube we then found ourselves across town, outside Victoria Station having a little picnic in the park before our theatre going debut. We went to watch the production at Wicked. All I can say is phenomenal, it was amazing. The storyline itself was brilliant, showing a whole new perspective to the Wicked Witch of the West, in the Wizard of Oz. And to what a sook Dorothy was. I would most definitely recommend anyone to buy the book, or if they are lucky enough to watch the production.

The actors were brilliant, with beautiful voices! Not to mention the lead male, who I'm sure much to his delight gets to make out twice with both of the two leading ladies during each show, and they perform the show twice a day, you can do the maths. The costumes and scene settings were amazing.

From Wicked we ventured of to Leicester square to our Karaoke debut, it was most definitely a day for firsts. I've never particularly been one for sing star, let alone Karaoke. I have the tendency to sound like a dying animal of sorts. But our little booth just out of the heart of Chinatown was some of the  best fun I have had in a long time.

Little did we know, the security camera in the booth, witnessing our downfalls in singing and dancing, was coming up of the security screens in the bar for all to see.

 However prior warning should be given, that I can no longer listen to Payphone without shivers running down my back, we destroyed that song. However blasting out long forgotten songs with a  small group of friends was bliss.

From there we hit up Chinatown to get some dinner. It was a cute little Chinese restaurant, our waiter never smiled. Ever. I can announce I ate Duck for the first time.  I'm not some huge animal lover, but I just always remember feeding them bread at the pond, giving them something yummy to eat.  Not fattening them up so the local Chinese shop owner and grab 'em, pluck 'em, behead 'em, roast 'em, and serve 'em.

But I got past that and ate 'em. I think I would compare it to eating chicken stuffing. Not my cup of tea.

Then being extremely tired, I headed home with Karen and Mad's, leaving Jess and Caitlin to party up in Chinatown.

What a day.



I'll add some more pics up of this day on another blog, just can't find the dang cord for Mad's camera to get pictures off :)

It must be love.

The hectic life, is my life and I absolutely love it! I love being tired from running around a new city and experiencing new things.

The last few days have been extremely educational and interesting, as well as fully jam packed of touristy things and tea breaks!

 This is what I've been up to...


My best friend Jess arrived from the big scary world of Oz on Sunday afternoon, which was absolutely wonderful! So lovely to see great friends, especially when we're about to embark on such a wonderful adventure together! Then later that evening her cousin Caitlyn arrived, which is great! The more the merrier!

Monday saw us hit up the hop on hop off bus tours, getting a real feel for what we do and don't want to see. For instance we just had to re-visit Westminster Abbey, and need never see again the the district behind waterloo station, old industrial area thats now been revamped since it was blown to pieces during the great blitz, truly they did us a  favour by bombing it, no need to repair it....

We then hit up Knightsbridge for some shopping at Harrods and of course a shopping expedition in London would not be complete without introducing this two London shopping virgins to Topshop and Zara. The girls have been absolutely blown away by the fantastic clothes that are on sale!

Then after crawling home on the trains we got up at 7.30am this morning. Aka Jess, the coolest girl out, came and hopped into bed with me, "Time to wake up", my response "yehhhhhhhh, later bro".

However I did have my hair curled and make up done by 8, and downstair for brekky , whilst they were all still in their jammies, eating brekky, and gossiping away.

We then jumped on the train to be scarred from the London Dungeons, however huge delays on the rail network, resulted in us changing lines, and adjusting our plans, but never feared we still arrived in time to be scarred.... a lottttt....





Our group for the tour was quite stimulating in itself. first off we walked in the initial scary introductory room, where there were 'dead' rats hanging down from the roof that we would walk into, absolutely scaring the little girl who was say around 12 years old, enough that she did not start screaming, and then of course much to my delight a scary lady all dressed up, with a white ghoulish face of make make up and loud croaky voice started jumping at the young girl, which resulted in the girls screams breaking the sound barrier.

The next blog-worthy mention was when after hearing about how surgeons use to high grave robbers to steal dead bodies so they could explore the human body. Here's some prior knowledge you need to understand this. A Nana had brought along her two assumed grandsons, the younger of the two was already freaking out, so Nana being as good of a nana is that brings their grand kids to a scar show, says just don't look, come here as he huddles into her chest.

A yound man (qute a looker actually) 'voluntered' to sit in the torture chair, he was starpped in- simply his hands- and the utentials surgeons used to extricated bodily organs, such as slicing of hands was demonstrated on this guy, lets call him Ted. So when the scary surgeon went to chop Ted's hands off, the lights went dark, and all of  a sudden a light spray of water was squirted from the walls onto us- it was meant to be the blood, you know.


The next thing, lights are on, and we hear, "I think he fainted, yep, he fainted".

Absolutely made my day! The little squirt had flat out fainted on his Nana. Poor Nana, she looked terrible, as if she'd just committed treason.

Above: The hang mans noose ride. It was pitch black and we'd just watched people get hanged. Not a nice feeling.

But otherwise it was on the up from there, learnt a tonne of interesting history, hit up the London eye and saw some terrific views, and then attended the Westminster Abbey tour.

Now let me just tell you Westminster is and absolutely MUST see for visotrs. Honest to goodness there is simply so much history to remember. Breath taking.

Then of course we then went to The Ritz for afternoon tea, which was absolutely scrumptous. i had orange and passionfruit tea, delicious!!


Now here I am tired and sore but so excited for tomorrow. You'll hear about that another time! x

The merry life...

Here's what's been happening. I changed accommodation to this amazing home with a lovely family in London. It has been a marvellous week of relaxing, and getting to know local londoners and London spots.

 I've been biking,  walking, kayaking down the thames, watching the olympics- and admiring the amazing gymnasts- Kristian Thomas can marry me any day!

Reading books, exploring covent gardens, and making some small purchases!

I should hopefully get my laptop back from my cousins house down south tomorrow or Friday, and then I shall blast you all with photographs!

For now I am going to continue reading books and relaxing!

When one door closes another opens. You hope.

Today was a melbourne day, four seasons in one day. I'll quickly ramble off what was achieved Woke up, got dressed, went out to trafalgar square to get touristy pics with the count down clock, had yummy brunch with mum at the cute heathy food cafe. Ended up breaking my sandals, resulting in me walking around London city barefoot for an hour or so on the look out for a shoe store.

Our mission to find shoes took us past a protest/demonstration of an African nation. Then thank goodness came across 'clarks', where the overly helpful store lady stuck to my back 'helping' me find shoes. with shoes back on my feet, and not looking quite so homeless Mum and I hit up Regents street and did some retai therapy.

 After making our feet sore again we went home to chill out before we headed to the airport to say our goodbyes. Yes there were tears, who doesn't cry when say bye to their amazing Mum? But right this moment I'm in bed after finishing packing my humongous suitcase. It has somehow magically multiplied itself in the last three weeks!

 No idea how I am going to manage to lug it around tomorrow on trains to get to my next impromptu home! However ignoring all this blubber, I need to mention a few achievements so far on this journey.

My Mum who is petrified of heights is no longer prettified, probably slightly scared would be an apt description now. The escalators here, going down to the tube are almost vertical. Mums initial reaction was one of a statue, a frozen stance, shaking and panicy breathing, she was practically a new woman today, looking up down, back and around, and not holding on to the rail. The Opening Ceremony so far has be incredible, absolutely amazing! The creativity, celebrities, music and acting. Wow.

Racing car driver

Well yesterday was a long long long day. But fabulous! We did some little touring throughout St Ives and then headed off to Mt St Michael, a castle on an island, there is a path from the mainland to the island! However due to bad weather we were unable to visit the island, but perved upon it for awhile! We the hit the road to drive across the country to be where we are now, Wych Cross in Sussex. On the journey (9 hours), we hit multiple road closures and diversions, courtesy of the Olympic torch relay. Oh the joy, who cares that we had a dinner date with our cousin Steve, who looks after a manor here. But to my great surprise these road closures allowed me to experience a new side of my mother. The Racing car driver. It went like this, one way area and police car trying to push in front of us "fat chance buddy, push over", my mother cutting of the police :) Next we were in a little country lane and we are over taken by some young hooligans, "What pussys, I haven't been passed all day, not starting now"' we then proceed to tail gate the young boys for at least 15km, sticking rights there bum. Was quite an enjoyable experience :) Off to Ireland today!

St. Ives what?

Marvellous Tuesday is what today should be called. My day consisted of waking up at 5am (still haven't kicked this jet lag)then continuing to wake up the rest of the household with my shower and blow drying. What a pity, who needs sleep when they're on holidays, right? Then we packed, trekked down the road to drop our apartment key off, caught a cab from a friendly Brit. Figured out that if we caught the piccadilly line to Heathrow it would cost £5 = $12AUD roughly as opposed to the Heathrow express that cost £19 each. Ripped off tourist right here. Then picked up our rental car and were on the road jack. The driver being my Mum, she is a fantastic driver. A great person to travel with but (there's always a BUT right?), she doesn't exactly enjoy driving in the city. Therefore after a few wrong turns and some terse looks we were on our way to Stonehenge. However one day if you ever travel to England you will noticed the fact that when driving all of the road signs are symbols of sort, there is very few signs that actually have words or numbers on them. Therefore for tourists who are insure of the speed limit , this is slightly problematic, add in the fact that at very overpass bridge there is stationary speed cameras. It is a right picnic to drive. However upon arriving at stonehenge after a delightful lunch in Andover, where I handily picked up a sim card for my iPad, it was breath taking. We were able to skip the line as we had purchased online an English heritage overseas visitors pass- would highly recommend them to anyone! Stonehenge and how it came to be is a miracle, the maintenance and potential reasons of why it was created are fascinating and frustrating all at the same time! I cant wait to come back at winter time and get photos of it with snow! It is a magical place. We then Headed back in the car, made some wrong turns, learnt that the Brits truly don't have enough lines on round abouts or speed signs. Or space on the side of the roads, or ANY good radio stations! Honest to goodness after spending 6 hours in the car today I can quite confidently say that every radio station I heard was absolutely useless in relation to the music and presenters. St Ives which is where I currently am, is my favourite place in the entire world, hands down. It is his little British holiday spot, on the coast, with cobbled streets, quaint pubs, b&b left right and centre, step streets, narrow enough the only an anorexic reason could fit through the, but absolutely beautiful! Well I'm off to grab some zzz's, talk later! X

24 hours on and still strong!

Hectic! Crashed last night and woke up bright an early at five pm, realised that the adaptor I had did not was missing the piece it needed to function therefore my hair was insanely frizzy, imagine einstein but worse.

But otherwise I had a spectacularly jam packed day. Mum and I squished in the bus tours, buckingham, palace, kensington palace, Hyde park & biking, Harrods, new sim cards, Finding Aspley house to pic up our heritage passes and then finding out they are shop. Oh and of course making the London underground our bff :)

 The weather was more pleasant thank goodness.

Some observations people here don't talk, people that work at Harrods are ten times worse than people that work at Myers, their pubs are quite reasonably priced, always order the 'London Tower' burger at Garfunckle- it was amazinggg! Lastly don't forget to lock your room when you share an apartment. Close one.

Tomorrow we are off to Windsor Castle, Stone Henge, Bath, and end up in St Ives. I'll update you then! xx

London Baby!

So right this moment it is 10.32pm and I am sitting on the floor in our London apartment while restoring my computer and recovering from the trip here!

Here's how the last 48 hours have spent.

 Saturday morning up and adam, say bye to the family and best friend, drive to perth with the Mum, Dad and littlest brother at this stage , Mum is not feeling to crash hot so we have to practically drug her up so she is able to board the flight. A promising start to our adventure.

Next after actually receiving great service and comfort in our flight from Perth to Singapore with Qantas airline, we do a quick little dash to our next gate. however a small problem i encounter one downloading the ebook of 50 shades of gray. Which i now consider to simply be a porno book, about a deranged man that is a complete wack job and needs to betaken down a peg or two. Secondly when we (My Mum and I) arrived in SIngapore my phone was still not working so i restored my entire settings, and am currently now fixing my phone and getting it in a functioning condition!


Next off we arrived in New Delhi. Yay we slept in these pods:

But they really felt like:

 However in saying that it was exactly what we needed some privacy and  a bed to get a bit of zzz's. Secondly at the moment India's Ghandi International Airport rates as the worst airport I have ever been to. It lacked the simple essential, yes it was glitzy and glamourous but not having a single atm in the departure/duty free hall, and then on top of that having no currency exchange centre. COme on. India step up.  But we did get foot massages and they were heavenly if slightly painful at times!

then a long journey from Delhi to London, and can i just say it has been a long time since i have seen an air hostess be so stroppy and impatient, but i give her congrats on keeping up that attitude for the entire trip. Plus another fun fact from that flight is that my chair was broken, and on sets in planes as most of you would know there is a button that you press that allows you to lean your chair back. My button did not work. My chair just slide back on it's on accord, quite a horrible predicament for the lovely lady sitting behind me.

Then to finish off this update i can quite proudly say Mum and I caught the heathrow express to Paddington station, then the circular train to Victoria station, then walked to the business to get our apartment keys, then to our apartment without once getting lost or robbed :)

 Always a positive now to sleep and get ready for a massive day tomorrow!

x

Family

Crazy does not even begin to explain how busy I have been in this past week, and quick the time has flown bye. That in only three sleeps my European adventure begins.

I can quite happily say that  should have by tomorrow evening caught up with most of my favourite people, everything is on desk that I think I will take, and my room looks like a tornado has hit it... Just saying!

But i still cannot get my head around that fact that on Sunday night I'll be sleeping on the other side of the world. Ridiculous.

Otherwise not much of an update, just last minute things being lazy and procrastinating.

My family.