A great week with a couple of ozy friends

I'll get straight to the funny bit.

Who? Me and Mare, her friend from home Hayley, her boyfirned Vlad, Mare's London workmate Ian, and two random ladies in a restaurant.

The five of us (minus the two random ladies) went to lunch on Sunday last week. Hayley ad Vlad had stayed with Ian all week and we wanted to thank him for his hospitality by taking him out to lunch. Well lunch was great. Beer, food, wine, more wine, alot of laughs and it was time for dinner. And we were still at the lunch restaurant. So we hopped in a taxi and London Ian took us to another resaurant in the West End.

More food, wine, laughs and we were having a great time. As you would, there were loud laughs and jokes. Nothing unusual. As we were leaving, Ian noticed the two random ladies sitting a few tables away staring at him. So he asked in a polite English manner,

"Are you glaring at me for any particular reason?"
"I can't hear a thing my friend has been saying. We can't have a civilised conversation. Thats probably why this section of the resaurant is empty" Random lady A replied.
"Well you're in London," Says Ian.
"It doesnt matter where we are, you should have common curtousey for other people"
Now, we weren't doing anything that a bunch of people wouldnt be doing if they're having a good time, so this was a bit uncalled for. We all realised this and so did Ian. So he ended this most civilised of arguments with, "well back to the nunary with you!" And stormed out of the restaurant taken aback by the exchange, with the waiters apologising to him all the way.

We were all holding back the laughter at this hilarious argument which would never have happened in Aoustralia. We all laughed about it as Ian took us to an Italian cafe for coffee and cakes, and then to a bar in Soho for cocktails.

It was a great day finishing off a busy and fun week with Hayley and Vlad.

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Tomeks birthday in Warszawa

Mare and I flew in for a long weekend and pretty much just ate the whole time. With the exchange rate and the big occasion (my 25th birthday), we thought it would be great to splash out - and we did!


We stayed in the grey one


The first night we made reservations at Warsaw's number one restaurant Belvedere. Check out their website http://belvedere.com.pl/

It was in a green house with a wall of vines and palm trees. It felt like we had the whole place to ourselves. The food was amazing and Mare looked stunning.



We also did a little sight seeing:
Tall man, big right foot.

The scond restaurant we went to was called U Fukiera - in English thats 'At Fuckers' - just kidding.


OUtside Fukiera's. It was decorated in a way I had never seen berfore - see the resturant website HERE

We loved both restaurants but Belvedere was our favourite.
The next day we walked around the Old Town and it started to snow outside.

When it was too cold to walk around the Old Town we stopped into this cute little restaurant just off the main square. It was made to look like a village hut with fake windows too



The pototo pancakes were huge! and this was after a bowl of pirogi, mulled wine and soup...



It was a cold cold day and Mare isnt used to that kind of weather. This photo looks very Eastern European with that building in the background

Random - with fireworks in da backyard :)

Every now and then we do some touristy stuff to see London. Its nowhere near enough but we're slowly getting through it. The below two photos are from a sunny day out a couple months ago.


You can see the Tower bridge in the background, a pretty photos of Mare..... and my forehead.


On the 5th of November the British celebrate the day a guy tried to blow up Parliment. "Remember, remember the 5th of November" is the little catch-phrase for the day. And the we they celebrate is with fireworks. On the saturday night closest to the 5th there we fireworks going off non-stop all over the city. You could go outside and hear the explosions literally every few seconds all night!

I went to buy a couple of fireworks too : )

The cheapest box was for 10 quid, and it was a two for one deal. See the photos below for the box...
And I had two of them!! hehe he hehe

An amazing Autumn with hEAPS of fallen leaves!

We dont usually get so many leaves in falling in Australia so we took lotsa photos. This was on the way to the gym in a little part of London called Crouch end.


This one is on a street near ours which we think is really English. We've been documenting the seasonal changes of this street with photos of it as it goes through the growth - we are sooo cool