Some more pics from London-town. Gosh it's been great fun, and I've met some great people. Individuals I hope to stay in touch with forever!! (Stalker alert ***) :)
Tahnee, Lei, Kasia, Scott and me - celebrating my birthday!! Thanks guys!!! Was a fun night (with a few too many pints on my behalf) and it was all the more interesting when an abandoned backpack prompted a visit from the police

Out the front of the pub waiting to be let back in. Cops a blur in the background!

Mika, Kasia, Tamsin, Alison and me at a gothic pub one Monday night. Spider-webs, skeletons and the door to the toilets through a wall that was a giant bookcase.

One Saturday (actually it was the Tour de France weekend, 7th July - won't forget that coz I made the ill-fated mistake of taking a bus rather than the tube and got stuck in horrendous traffic!) I went over to Notting Hill for dinner and drinks with Patrina and Rosie. Patrina is friends with my brother James, and Rosie is her cousin. They'd just got back from a 35(!) day Contiki tour...


Anyway, we went to a pretty fab Italian restaurant (although the bill wasn't too fab ;)) and enjoyed some drinks.
Mmm pizza... Look at those lovely tans!! Bloody travellers in areas of Europe that actually have a summer!!!!!


I stayed over and the next day Rosie and I met up with Lei and Johnno to check out the Brick Lane markets. Now these have a reputation as being really good. I don't rate them personally. A whole lot of junk. A couple of good musicians getting about but the nutcase on top of a shipping container preaching about something or other, didn't rate a mention... well except I've mentioned him... Anyway, moving right along - after the markets, we fulfilled Rosie's dreams of walking across the crossing on Abbey Road outside the Beatles' old studio. You know, the one in the famous pic that's on the front cover of one of their albums... or something... Rosie, why aren't you telling this story? anyway... pics below!
The Brick Lane markets. At least it wasn't raining! And Lei found a good deal on a shower hose I believe...

The original:
c-o Wikipedia
Our attempt - not great but I bet the Beatles didn't have to cope with traffic. Just wish we'd had a 2007 model of a beetle in the background of our pic. Oh well...
c-o some Spanish guy who took the photo with Rosie's camera.
The wall outside the studios with adornments of love etc.

Ahhh aren't they cute! Lei and Johnno proving they visited Abbey Road.

And of course, we finished off a lovely Sunday with a Sunday session at one of my favourite pubs, the Old Ship on the Thames at Hammersmith!! Beers and gourmet burgers. And it was so good, JT even got in a nap in the sun!
Johnno, Lei and I and some other randoms...

View of the river.


And just a couple more London pics AT NIGHT!
The Eye, different colours on different nights.

The tower where Big Ben lives

Some stretch 4wd-looking thing