Cornwall

So I forgot to write about Cornwall. We drove for 5 or 6 hours a few weeks ago for a weekend visit. Cornwall is is the most southwesterly county in England. The main reason for visiting was to be able to go to the beach again. With our bad luck it rained the whole weekend..

London eye....Kew Gardens...Notting hill carnival

This weekend we have been busy. Following are photos from the London eye, we end out going on a rainy night so they are not the best pics. We decided to go to kew gardens on Saturday as they have a tree top walk 18 metres in the air. The whole gardens were nice to visit. On Monday we went to the notting hill carnival which is Europe's largest street festival...

Whats been happening...

Its been a little while since we (really me, Kelly) have update our blog. I struggle to think what we have done. Wed nights are now pub night in our house. Sometimes some of our other friends also come along. We have turns choosing a different pub to go to. Paul choose one outside his old work, it had a really great outdoor seating area. Tim choose the white horse in Fulham and Kelly chose to go to an Indian restaurant in Holand Park which is about a 20min walk from where we live. Although not really a pub it was the best Indian food i have ever eaten. So it appears to be my pick next week. I bussed past one pub the other day so that may be the one!

We went to Global gathering the other weekend. Which is a music festival held 3 or so hours out of London. The weather was really hot and sunny. Hate to say it but it was almost too sunny!

At Mark Ronson.

Had a long air show, was amazing to watch.

Found some cows so I had to get a photo!

We have also gone to the London dungeons. This is what it says about it on their website...
'Deep beneath the pavement at locations across Europe, chilling tales and petrifying aspects of our history are reenacted, providing eerie, spine-chilling fun for anyone who dares enter the world of the Dungeons!
Delve into the blood-curdling parts of history that your teachers never taught you - learn the torturous methods used by unscrupulous characters to the grisly details of our most prolific killers.' It was good, would have been much better if there wasn't so much waiting around to do.

Kelly was smart enough to take their camera so following is some of the photos she took.

This first photo isn't from the London Dungeons, this guy (hahaha who Kelly asked how he got down the stairs as his feet were so big!) was from someplace similar down the road that we almost ended out at instead.

Kelly looking a little worried about the man she is next to.

Me and Paul on the boat ride.

The only other thing that I can think of that we have done is going to the Croydon festival. Was pretty cool as we got to see Finley Quaey play for free. If you are unsure who he is look up his song 'Dice' I'm sure you will know

Glastonbury

Europe's biggest music festival. It took us over two hours to walk from one side to another. There was more to entertain than just music, there were many crazy craft stalls, food, and other wacky things to do and look at. Many things that we wanted to do such as the open air cinema we just didn't have time to do! We saw Kings of Leon, Amy Winehouse, John Mayer, James Blunt, Crowded house and other big music acts. We were lucky with the weather as Glastonbury has the reputation of always being extremely wet and muddy but it was mostly sunny for us.

House Warming

It may have taken a few months but we finally had our house warming. Not the best of planning meant that we had it on a day where everyone we know over here in London were at the races but it worked out well as our house wouldn't have been able to fit too many extra people in anyway. It was going to be dress up. For which I bought an Amy Winehouse wig, to my disappointment we decided not to do dress up! But that didn't matter I managed to bring out the wig and we spent a while entertaining ourselves with it! But haha Paul didn't get any photos of me with it on. As you can also see Tim and Kelly also provided some interesting ballons that they got on there travels which also entertained everyone for a while.

Amsterdam

We went to Amsterdam a little while back to visit friends. Was great to see some friendly faces. We hired bikes and had heaps of fun riding around, going to the markets and visiting Anne Franks house and just relaxing in the park.

June Update

So Paul was going to update the blog a couple of weeks ago but he must have for some reason decided not too, or he possibly forgot!

On Thursday we went to the musical 'Wicked'. Based on Gregory Maguire’s novel it tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz,and why one came to be called ‘good’ and the other ‘wicked’. It has won over 20 major international theatre awards so as you can guess it was really good.

Today we went to Hyde Park for the Red Bull Flugtag day. This is where people invent things with the idea that they will glide further than other teams when jumping off a bridge into water and it has to hold a team member. As well as that they are judged on a short performance before jumping into the water. There was the giant swan that did a giant nose dive and then sunk, a plane made of balloons and a yellow submarine. We had a good day sitting amongst the 80,000 other people. We have a video of the day but I will have to pester Paul a bit until he puts the video software onto the computer.

Over the May bank holiday we went to the Gatecrasher summer sound system which is a music festival we saw The Prodigy, Paul Okenfold and lots of other DJs. It really felt much more like a winter festival than a summer one with the amount of wind, rain and mud that was there. Was great to get out of London for a weekend. Sorry bout some of the pics, turns out that copying photos from facebook doesn't give the best result......ill try to get Paul to replace them with the originals off his laptop!