BBQ with mates #1

We had a BBQ on Sunday with James & Sarah, Craig & Jen and all of us. We had an awesome time now that we finally worked out how to run these silly British BBQ's. So much food and good company. A good time had by all.

Part 2 of my London Tour

On Sunday, I used the second half of my 24 hours ticket from Saturday which got me a cruise on the Thames. Here are a few photos....

Big Ben (Again)

Charing Cross Train Station (Aparently it is meant to look like a steam train coming out of a tunnel)

Tower of London

Tower Bridge

Tower of London with the "Girken" in the background

Sightseeing in London - Monopoly Pub Crawl

After having a nice long sleep in after another late night and long week...decided to go into the city and jump on one of the open top double decker bus tours that runs around the city. Saw all of the usual sights as evident by the photos below:

The London Eye

Big Ben

St Pauls

An interesting way to remove illegally parked cars!!!

Then we met some friends Laura made when she was staying in the hostel before she came to live with us all. They were on a monopoly pub crawl and we joined in about half way through.

This is in Kings Cross station

Isle of Man

Well, for my first work trip, I had to goto the Isle Of Man, yes the home of the famous car race....there are no speed limits on the island once you are out of the villages.....if only i had a car while i was there! Very bumpy landing as we were in a little plane and it was so stormy that all of the ferries had been canceled. The days changed from sun to rain and back again really quickly.

Here is a little map of where the Isle of Man is for those of you (like me) who did not know. It is between Britan and Ireland.

Its quite a peaceful island (except for during the races I imagine), and quite pretty when its not stormy.

My new TV

Well, after putting up with the 51cm tv in our room, we finally had enough... so i bought myself a new TV...50" plasma... got it on special. Was quite funny though, 3 of us carrying a damn big 60kg box back from the shop down the high street here and then two blocks to our house..... so damn heavy! I also got the desktop mounting base for an awesome price £10 for a 20kg glass stand....just because it was a discontinued model....yeah!

And we just got our SKY+ box in, which for those back home its like Foxtel Digital records 2 channels of pay TV at once....yeah we are all in heaven!