MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!! (or 'Happy Christmas' as seems to be the norm here) As I am about to rush off to the countryside this blog will be super fast. Some highlights of my travels since I left Saigon: Arriving in London to be met off the train by my lovely godmother after 3 flights, 1 terrible gluten free plane meal and about 20 something hours of travelling Being introduced to highly competitive, sometimes dangerously agressive but always very enter...

I think I'm finally getting a bit mroe used to the English weather... the waking up and its sunny outside but within an hour is cloudy again. Being the middle of summer here I have found it suprisingly cold (eg I bought a hoodie yesterday and Rose and I bought scarves...). Practically Antartica. Not just cold but it basically always rains whenever we go outside... 'lovely'.With Eloise as our guide (meant that we were able to get on the right trains fo...

This week I met Rose off her plane. Awesome to see a familiar kiwi face who spoke normally! Since then we have done a lot of catching up on sleep - her, with the excuse of jet lag and me just being lazy hehe. Today we went into the city centre, a little freaked out when there was a bomb scare in the centre at 3am this morning, to be tourists. We attempted to watch the changing of guards but couldn't see much more than the funny tall black hats... we then walked...