HELLO LONDON!

Hi everyone!

We arrived in London yesterday morning and somehow managed to lug all of our many bags on the tube to get to Clapham which is where we are staying for the first five days. Spent our first day just checking out Clapham and also catching a few Zs. Overall impression so far - we LOVE it!! Everything looks so quaint and old. We feel very excited about doing much more exploring. We are quite surprised that things don't seem very expensive as was expected. Col was very excited to find that he could buy a pack of four beers from the supermarket for 88p.

One highlight so far has been enjoying some authentic French baguettes and yummy cheeses. It is pretty cold but not at all unbearable. We bought some really warm jackets in Thailand that seem to be doing the trick. Once you get inside any building its really warm, so layering is really the key.

We are off to explore the centre of London a little today and will also begin the process of job-searching. Funnily enough, from the job adds I have seen so far it looks as though the pay is better for typist / receptionist jobs than assistant psychologist jobs!! Col is going to contact some of the recruitment agencies that he had been emailing from Oz. We've drawn up a bit of a budget though and worked out that we could probably survive here for a month without working if we had to.

We'll post some London photos next time. Thanks for your replies guys - its great to hear from you. We are terribly sorry to be making you all so jealous! Will write again soon :)

Lots of love,
Travelbugs.