A tour around where we live

Hello guys,

After finding our new place and settling down a bit, we can give you some photos and a little tour of our part of London.

The first photo is of some houses around where we live. They are very british. We like them a lot and get to walk past everyday on our way to the station.

This is the view from our bedroom window. Its a courtyard for the whole flat we live in but no one ever uses it. And we have two chilli plants growing strong. THey started off as little babies and are growing up fast.

Here is a view of our room from the door. There is a lot of space. And yes we are sleeping under our sleeping bags :)

This is from the window - lots of cupboard space.

London Bridge! This was on one of our first days in London. We went on a long walk along the south bank of the Thames river and ended up on the surprisingly tiny bridge - its only got two lanes, one in each direction - nothing like the Harbour Bridge in Sydney.

Westminster Abbey - this thing is HUGE and so detailed.

London Bridge.

Mare's brother Kire and Claire

For the Macedonians - this is the most delicious Graff you will see.

This one's for mama Jordanoska. Kire and Mare together near the Buckingham Palace

And Polaska representing on a graffitied wall - with the dancing girls above it :)

There are sooo many Poles in London. There are convenients stores that sell Polish food, free polish newspapers and supermarket sections dedicated to Polish food. I've heard people speaking the language all over the place. They work hard here and save money - hey, just like me. I was at the office where we get out National Insurance number (which is like a social security nmber and is needed if you want to work in the UK) and it was packed with people getting their number. And at least half the people there were Polish - they came in one after another. Its so easy to spot a polish person. I spoke to the guy there and he said that they usually get 400 people per day thru there and the majority are polish. I' m just shocked at the amount of us Poles going to the UK. Not to mention all the Aussies here... but its been great so far.

Til next time,

Tomasz

PS The Eurovision song contest is a crack up - we watched it last night and even the Brits laugh at it. This year it went to the lesbos and there were plently of them there :)