En-ger-land

Well, I've crossed the great divide that is the English Channel and landed in the home of football, pork pies, chavs, bangers and mash, and of course Liz and Phil.... After managing to negotite the tube, Lisa wisked me away to a post England football win (1-0 against Paraguay) celebration with friends in a pub in Clapham. I'll be staying with Lisa and Kevin in London for this week before heading with them, Emma and JJ to Wales.

After a lazy Sunday morning, we jumped on the London Buses and headed to Hyde Park to catch up with Nige, Reece and co, and later Brian and Tina. Great to catch up with people that I havn't seen for a few years and its amazing how little has changed (other than we're all on the other side of the world).

London is suprisingly hot... especially when you're on a bus! Tonnes of people getting a good helping of sunshine in the parks, must have brought the good weather with me eh?

It was actually a little bizare to come back to an english speaking country.... it took a bit of time to get used to being able to understand what people around you are saying (mostly anyway), not have to think about the phrase you were to use to buy a ticket or try and interpret signage!

Am off to explore London over the next few days as well as catching up with various friends so will post some pics in the near future... Plus, of course this will all be interspersed with various football games. The trick will be working out who to support!