Friday night Niki met me in town to go see the Opening Ceremony of the Tour de France… unfortunately EVERYONE else was there also so we could only see what was going on from the big screen. It was still cool being there though, then we ran into Marty & Sheree and decided to go to dinner (mmm Steak!), and after that had some drinks on the 7-dials monument (cos u can drink in public places here!)
The weekend just been was sunny!!!! (this is very exciting as every other day there was rain or hail or thunderstorms…Brilliant). Saturday I went shopping in Oxford St… WOW! Massive shops, sales everywhere…as well as people. I thoroughly enjoyed myself though and it was nice to buy a few things for me. Saturday night we were meant to go to Spence’s gig but the tickets had sold out, gutted. So we ended up going to Anna & Derek’s house for a BBQ & drinks. We stayed the night as the tube stops at 12am and apparently would’ve taken us nearly 2 hours to get home on the bus. But anyway that ended up being fun, and good to be able to sort something with short notice!
Next morning we had a good ol’ fry-up and then Niki, Lee-Ann and I missioned back home, got organised and then dashed to the nearby park to soak up some rays. It was lovely, read books, had a wee picnic, generally just relaxed!
Niki started his new job today. He’s doing a packing/distributor job, so that means driving around London!!!!!
We’ve found a place to live, Niki was getting sick of searching so we took the second place he looked at. I haven’t seen it yet, but I figure it’s only for three months so however bad it is I will be able to cope J. There are 7 others in the flat, 6 kiwis & 1 Aussie. We move in tomorrow night (10 July). Have to pay £660 bond (incl 1 week rent) and then pay a month in advance rent in about 1 week (ahhhhhh!!) Just as well I get paid weekly!
It’s been awesome staying with Lee-Ann, catching up lots and saving rent money! We’ve just got used to Brixton and know our way around, so it’ll be another adventure trying to figure out the new place plus it’ll be strange not seeing Lee-Ann and Spence every day. Now when we want to do stuff we’ll have to arrange in advance and then it will take an hour to meet! Oh well the joys of London!
The weekend just been was sunny!!!! (this is very exciting as every other day there was rain or hail or thunderstorms…Brilliant). Saturday I went shopping in Oxford St… WOW! Massive shops, sales everywhere…as well as people. I thoroughly enjoyed myself though and it was nice to buy a few things for me. Saturday night we were meant to go to Spence’s gig but the tickets had sold out, gutted. So we ended up going to Anna & Derek’s house for a BBQ & drinks. We stayed the night as the tube stops at 12am and apparently would’ve taken us nearly 2 hours to get home on the bus. But anyway that ended up being fun, and good to be able to sort something with short notice!
Next morning we had a good ol’ fry-up and then Niki, Lee-Ann and I missioned back home, got organised and then dashed to the nearby park to soak up some rays. It was lovely, read books, had a wee picnic, generally just relaxed!
Niki started his new job today. He’s doing a packing/distributor job, so that means driving around London!!!!!
We’ve found a place to live, Niki was getting sick of searching so we took the second place he looked at. I haven’t seen it yet, but I figure it’s only for three months so however bad it is I will be able to cope J. There are 7 others in the flat, 6 kiwis & 1 Aussie. We move in tomorrow night (10 July). Have to pay £660 bond (incl 1 week rent) and then pay a month in advance rent in about 1 week (ahhhhhh!!) Just as well I get paid weekly!
It’s been awesome staying with Lee-Ann, catching up lots and saving rent money! We’ve just got used to Brixton and know our way around, so it’ll be another adventure trying to figure out the new place plus it’ll be strange not seeing Lee-Ann and Spence every day. Now when we want to do stuff we’ll have to arrange in advance and then it will take an hour to meet! Oh well the joys of London!
2 comments:
£660 bond!!! Hope that covers a couch for your besties to crash on...
Sounds like you're settling in well, how does it compare to living in Sydney? Only 180 days till we get there!
any new adventures?
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