Half way and all is well

Well it is now half way through my stay in this cold but beautiful country. At the moment I am in London after a great Easter break full of snow, cold and starwars. The latter of these was caused by the addition of my seven year old cousin Cameron who is totally starwars mad and thus when an older (and very nerdy) cousin shows up he utilized this event to its fullest extent. I was playing with him for most of the time up there in Berwick (Wooler), Though since it was also lambing season we went out for walks to look at the Views (I give this a capital as they are magic and deserve all the praise they can handle) and as it had lightly snowed (it was cold enough for it to settle) we made a snow man- yes he was only 10 inches tall but he was great!- with buttons from my coat and pound coins for eyes he was ‘special’.

On Monday I had the three hour train journey down to London. Being Easter Monday it was packed, with people stealing other peoples seats left right and center. I sat next to an interesting gentleman who was originally a farmer from Zimbabwe but for the last two years had lived in Devon working on a farm as he could not make a living in his own country. Since the Train had free Wifi I used the time well and looked up places to eat while in London, making a booking into St Johns – a really good English food restaurant. I departed from Kings Cross station – carefully making sure to take a picture of platform 9 and ¾ (yes they have made one). I arrived at the cheap hostel “ashlee house” and found my self pleasantly surprised- it was clean and cheap hurray! It is rare you find both together.

That night I went to the west end of London- Lester Square specifically. I had arrived an hour early to find my bearing and so I did what any self respecting traveler would do – I just walked around randomly and found my feet lead me to china town, there was the smells again but this one was a lot better than Newcastle’s attempt. This one felt used though- mainly by tourists, but still used and alive. It was thirty minuets later I walked out of China town and down a block of shops turned left and found my self staring at the Noel Coward Theater home to the Westend Production of Avenue Q. It was a great show...


But thats enough for now more later on London... tomorrow im off to Dublin with the International group.