We arrived in London on the 13th October at 5am, and just let me say thank god for our Business Class flight!!! Care of Jody and Josche's hard earned frequent flyer points :-) We were able to hang out in the arrival lounge at the airport until lunch time where we could have a shower eat some food and check emails.
Once we got to our accommodation I was able to stay awake until about 6pm London time, which I thought was a pretty good effort for me and I proceeded to sleep for 14hrs straight so I got over my Jetlag pretty quickly. Josche had a little bit more trouble he doesn't sleep 14hrs straight with ease like I do :-).
Once both of us had woken up we went and had a look at the Natural History Musem, it was interesting but probably not the best choice after a 13 hr flight. But we hung in there and had a good look around. PS Josche told me to say how enthralling and exciting the musem was but I decided not to bore you with it.. :-) After the musem we caught up with my good friend Kitz at Covent Garden which was awesome to see a friendly face and have a local take us for dinner and drinks.
The next day we explored London a bit more and took a river cruise, did the tourist thing, visiting, Big Ben, Parliment House, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham palace. The cruise was very good we had no idea London Bridge was so plain. Tower Bridge on the other hand is very pretty.
Friday Trudy came too town in the arvo so we promptly found a pub to have a few beers at, this was the first chance we had to try the "warm" beer and suprisingly it wasn't too bad, I wouldn't drink it again but Josche certainly didn't mind it :-)
Saturday we had a bit of a look around Piccadily Circus and Soho with Trudy she was our tour guide :-) and took us to an awesome italian resturant for lunch! Since Sunday was my birthday we had drinks and dinner and Kitz's place, I had an awesome birthday party with Kitz, Trudy and Josche and even got a Birthday cake!!!!
Sunday was my birthday!!! Josche and I had pancakes for breakfast and had a wonder around Leicester Square, saw a movie and of course a few beers at our local pub what more could a girl want :-)!!
On Tuesday we ventured to Vienna by plane once we had checked into our Vienna Backpackers we were on our way to find some traditional Austrian fine food. We got to the corner and found a pub, where Josche had a 1L glass of beer I stuck with my Pint and had a Weiner Schnitzel.
After practising how to speak German on the plane and bus on the way into Vienna I was confident I could at least ask someone if they could speak english, count to ten and use my manners. This didn't last long when we got on the train to go into the city I had a few people yelling at me in German and I had no idea what they were saying oops....
The next day we caught up with a German friend of Josche's and his girlfriend they were fabulous tour guides and we had a great opportunity to have a look around vienna city. My poor boots didn't hold up though so I spent most of the day walking around with nappy pins holding my boots together. But it was a good chance to be able to go shopping and buy a new pair.
The next day was an early rise to get to Prague....to be continued...
