Our first notes on London

London's been a lot of fun. Its different than travelling in Thailand or South America in that its not as crazy. But its different from Australia because its more crazy. There is a lot more going on, more variety in people. That includes nationalities, social groups, and interests. There are a lot of freaky looking people (freaky by our Sydney standards).

Another quick interesting observation about London is that everything is packaged. Everything.
On our first day out on the town, we went to a convenients store and there were individually wrapped apples. In the supermarket, there are packaged vegies. We have that at home, but here there is no unpackaged option. It doesnt sound that great but when you see it, its wierd... the environment, all that plastic....

Anyways, one of the people we are staying with at the moment has gone to Paris for the weekend...as you do. And Arsenal and Fulham are playing in the Emirates Stadium next door to the apartment... we can here it when someone scores. Mare and I got caugh in the rush of people leaving the stadium after a game last week - 60 000 people leaving the stadium and us two going the other way to the apartment.

Tomorrow I start my new job!

Tomasz