Off to Europe tomorrow...

Wow the last 2 weeks seem like they have lasted for ever but they've actually gone really quickly, I know, I make so much sense! Quite a few days were written off because I've been sick but all the same I've enjoyed London.

It's really bad because I don't know what I've been up to. Well I do but I can't really remember the sequence of events‏... I blame it on been sick...

Monday I didn't end up doing anything. I found a massage place though & my shoulder's not quite so sore now which is great.

Now this is where it gets fuzzy, I think Tuesday was spent wondering round Notting Hill Gate, Kensington Gardens & Kensington Palace then jumped on the tube & went to & saw St Paul's Cathedral on my way to London Museum where I spent half the day wondering round learning how London came to be.

Wednesday I caught up with Martyn who I met in Bolivia. It was a great day. We got tickets to Les Mis for 25pounds. It was fantastic!! I really love the theater. So I've now been to Lester square & the west end & wondered down Regent Street & looked at all the pretty christmas lights.

Yesterday was a total write off! I got up went to the internet, felt like crap went to the chemist got some drugs then came back to the hostel & proceeded to sleep for most of the day. Last night I caught with Simon who I met in Turkey which was great. Although drinking on cold & flu tablets isn't such a wise idea… :)

Today I was so tempted to sleep all day but Simon, who I was staying with in Stoke, came down to London, so I spent most of the day with him wondering round the city. It was cool just to walk around. I've been a bit lazy & have been catching the tube so it's a bit hard to fit everything together & figure out how the city works so it was really good just to wonder round. We walked down Oxford Street & went to Selfridges which is a huge department store, very, very expensive, & I was tempted to spend 60pounds on a small pink leather bound diary, it was so cute! I've walked through places like Mayfair, Trafalgar square, Bond Street plus sqillions of other places that appear on the monopoly game board :D Very cool!

Tonight instead of going out partying like all decent backpackers do I'm having a quite night… Not to mention having to pack :( The tour leaves at 7am tomorrow morning so I've got a pretty early start & have to try to get form Earls Court to Bayswater on the tube then find the departure point… Shouldn't be too hard but I think I'll have to leave here about 6.15am or maybe 6am to be on the safe side.

Well, tomorrow I'll be in France… Oh what life! :D

Earls Court, England, Friday 10th December 2004, 6.50pm