Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

The other day we moved hostels over to the other side of Hyde Park. Really, it's probably about two kilometers away, so it's a pretty awesome location still. It has decided to rain though. The weather here is so odd. I had the idea that we'd have rainy days where it would rain and just keep raining, but at the moment the norm seems to be if the morning is cloudy, it will rain at some point during the day, and then stop, and then rain... and then stop. Regardless, I'm still walking around in shorts and no jacket and feeling very comfortable. It's kickin'.

Something else I've noticed is that there are no car parks or parking lots anywhere in London. As far as I can tell, they go out of their way to make driving in London as unpleasant as possible so as to deter people from driving. It's a pretty awesome idea. I'm so used to the 'let's knock some shit down and build a car park' mentality of Canberra. Then again, the public transport here is infinitely superior to that of Canberra.

The other day the three of us went up on the London Eye to check out the view. We were on there for about half an hour just slowly going around. The view was fabulous, but I'm convinced it would have been a lot better if it was spinning really, really fast. We also spoke to our first Welsh person. Every now and then through out the day Courtney would just say 'I can't believe how cool her accent was! So cool!' I'm not sure how she'll cope when we go to Wales. Probably just giggle all the time.

On the 'Eye'

The view: House of Parliment, Westminster... That builing from 'Party Animals'

We went to the London equivelent of the Labor Club (we didn't choose it. It was pretty horrid) to meet one of Courtney's other friends the other night, in my least favourite part of London around Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus. It's so touristy. Full of Ripleys believe it or not and chain stores and other horrid shit. For example: tourists. But we did try pimms for the first time and it was quite pleasant. I still don't know what it is though...

We also had a quick squizz at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which I may go back to a little later today (yay for free entry!) As it is, we just checked out some sick sculptures and a 'fashion through the ages' type exhibition. For the record, the ages have had some pretty shit fashion. Some of the clothes were extremely gorgeous though. In the next few days we might check out St Paul's Cathedral and the British Museum. We drooled over St Paul's a bit last week before noticing that it was something like £12 entry and scurrying away. It does seem like something not to miss though.

The Globe again yesterday too!! But more on that later... To sum it up, this was the general facial expression we had for several hours after.

EEEEEEEH!!

Love,

Bron <3 <3