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Thursday : fine
After breakfast we walked to the train station and bought our 'oyster cards'.
They're these travel passes for the train, bus whatever.
We then took a train to go visit cousin Alex, to say hi and pick up some bank paperwork. It was good to see him it's been so long I can't remember the last time I saw him.
After a chat, Kim and I had to go sort out our phones. We went to a couple shops, but after not getting served by the big moblie boys we went to a smaller store and ended up getting a far better deal.
We had a problem though we couldnt get our phones to work, apparently they need to be unlocked. Optus was supposed to unlock my phone, before I left but that doesn't seem to be true. Its going to cost $110 to unlock the phone too, we may have to buy a cheap phone instead.
We went to the apple store to see if they could help us but they weren't able too, they said we need too update our phones and maybe that will help.
After doing all that we had to take the train and meet the real estate agent, so they can show us some flats. They only had one to show us and it wasn't available till the 30th of nov. It is small and dark but will do for work, they showed us a temporary stay room two streets away. I think we will like the temp room more than our permanent place. It's more open and a bit bigger and in a loft.
Afterwards we jumped back on the train back into town, to go to the bank to open up an account. Thankfully it all went well, we just have to wait for our card pins.
After the bank we walked down towards the river and past saint Paul's cathedral. It looked awesome, pity about all the protesters tents around it. Occupy London doesnt look like it'll be over anytime soon. We then went down to the river and had our first look at tower bridge and the London eye.
We then took another train back to the hotel, and stopped off at Maccas again to use the wifi.
Not much on tele here, we are looking forward to the computer arriving.
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