1yr in London

In the last 2 weeks we've celebrated my birthday (all of 27 years now - and feeling old too!) , Trish's b'day and hit our one year anniversary of being in London. It was a time for celebration and reflection - a year filled with European travelling highlights (that I can now list off like a seasoned traveller) - Greece, Italy, Dublin, Paris, Barcelona, Sydney, Southern Spain, Poland, Vienna, NYC, Amsterdam and little trips around England. A very quick 12 months of frantic travelling, early saturday morning starts, late sunday night returns and very tired monday's at work.

It's been an amazing time. And through all of our first year we've been lucky enough to have good friends to travel with and share experiences. Unfortuanately 1 year has come and gone and G/A have have embarked on a 2 month long trip before arriving back to Oz early in Aug.

Early on, most weekends in London (if not weeknights also) involved spending time at their place, eating mushroom risotto or spaghetti bolognese from their industrial size pots, drinking cordial (called squash in London and served at a 'G/A special' 16:1 water to cordial ratio) and playing monopoly. Other times it was eating out at the local Malaysian place or KFC, or them throwing our garbage out for us and G catching a glimpse of someone taking a dump next to the bin. And always there was eggplant/aubergine for A! ALWAYS!

We'll miss you guys! One year down - maybe 2 to go? Get your butts to london, before we finish up here. It really is the time to travel. Lots more places in Europe to see - then there's South Africa, Africa safari, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Russia, South America ...