Yay! Its spring time.. no more big coats.... are you kidding? Its still nippy in the mornings and maybe a little into the afternoon. This morning we intended on going to see the Wallace Collection but due to the change in daylight saving we managed to miss the viewing. So we decided to change the plans and headed for Hyde Park. Hyde Park is one of the biggest parks in London and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers Corner. The park itself is...

I know it has been a while since our last blog entry. We have been very busy setting up our little place in Grays and I have been busy getting use to working in an English school. We have become well acquainted with our surroundings and I would say that we are coping very well. Grays has everything we could ever need and it is quite easy for us to get around. It may not be the most picturesque or particularly nice part of England, but it is home for now. I am sti...

We arrived on New Years Eve at the Stand Palace Hotel. Our room is fantastic - soft bed, clean bathroom with a bathtub and a flat screen TV! We hung out in the room for a while resting (mainly because we both have head colds) before venturing out for some dinner. We both had pasta from a cute Italian restaurant tucked in one of the little streets near out hotel. We keep warm in the hotel for a couple more hours before venturing down toward the London Eye to watch...

The journey so far….our first day in London We arrived yesterday in London on Malaysian Airlines flight MH004 in terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport. The first leg of our flight from Brisbane to Malaysia was full and uncomfortable, although the flight was very smooth. It was very hard to sleep. We took the time during our 6 hour stopover in Malaysia to catch up on some shuteye. We had a shower in one of the airport hotels - which was like heaven after our fligh...