UrbanSeven

Roman Baths - Bath

The weekend just gone I finally got out of London and visited Bath, a town just outside London (about 1.5hrs on the train). It’s a historical Roman Bath city with “The best preserved Roman architecture”. It was a really nice place but as I don’t have a camera due to it being fuking stolen all I have is the above photo from Wikipedia …although it is probably a thousand times better than one I would have taken. Maybe this is how I can fill the rest of my blog, google image search and wikipedia …soo much cheaper!

Anyway Bath was awesome, I went with a heap of friends and after the sights we got trashed at cocktail bars and then went to a pub for dinner. The place, entire town turned into a meat market after dark though with slappers and knobs out everywhere. I learned later on that there are Universities all around Bath and this is were the students come to drink

*Good news on the photo/robbery front, Flickr had most of my trip backed up so I have everything up to but not really including (only 2 photos) of Madrid. I can redo all my London photos but I am missing Madrid, Rome, Athens and Corfu Island

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So got home from work yesterday opened the door with my keys to find my laptop, ipod, Fuji camera and my prized Canon 300D Digital SLR all gone.
Some crackhead had broken into my place and stole all my shit!

Well maybe not a crackhead, keys were used so I assume it was an ex-tenant or someone who got keys cut at some stage in the past. Either way now I have to deal with making an insurance claim back in Australia and trying to get everything replaced. The downside and I mean real downside is I lost all my Europe photos as they were backed up onto the laptop.

The flickr account which I setup stopped working while I was travelling so they are not all there, I do think some are so I will report back.

Really pissed right now though.

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Nightsky in South London last night.

Quick Update:
Last night was pretty stormy and today I found a heap of photos from around England and thought it would be a nice post. Reminds me of when I was living in Darwin, Australia.

More cool photos here.

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So I ended up having a quiet weekend at home, the weather was kinda shit and I really need to save some money. It was pretty good though, had some drinks chilled out at home and watched some movies.

On Sunday I ventured into the city to go to the Borough Markets (which are meant to be really good) except the were fricking shut! So I went to Carnaby Street to buy some new clothes but really just wasn’t in the mood so I left in a huff and come back home to where it was warm.

Should be busy at work this week with lots of interesting new web stuff coming up so I am looking forward to that.

Hope everyone is doin alright back home.

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So Friday I moved offices from the 2nd floor in our building to the ground floor, the office is huge now and our London office is merging with us too so I am quiet excited about that.

After a really hot day I picked up some steaks and Coronas on the way home from work and cooked myself up a meal then sat back and watched some episodes of Weeds. It was a good way to end the week.

Saturday morning I got up early and went for a walk in the park near my place, need to try and get a little exercise as my indulgent eurotrip has left it’s mark on me. Going to look at joining a gym here too just got to find a good one I can get to on the way to work.

So after that I went to the ‘British Motorshow’ and it was umm well massive. Compared to the Brisbane Motorshow anyway. It was about 4 or 5 times larger inside and had a massive outdoor section with a race track and 4×4 demos. I also got a photo with James May’s “Rozzers” cop car from ‘Top Gear’ which was cool and got to check out the new Skyline GTR and the new WRX STi. There were many of other classics there as well as a little special car that would be perfect for Justy.

Saturday night I went to a club at Brick Lane (a famous London street for Indian food), was an Australian girls birthday that I meet the weekend before. I met some pretty cool people and we all got pretty wasted, it was great.

Sunday I felt pretty crap so went out and got some late breakfast/lunch and watched ‘The Dark Kinght’. I really enjoyed it even though everyone said it was a little overrated. I would say it was Heath’s best performace and if the Oscar is for best supporting he probably deserves it.

Anyways I am hoping to go away to Scotland this weekend either Glasgow or Edinburgh.

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London Roller Girls - Summer Shovin

On Saturday night I was invited to a new sport, it’s an all girls roller derby…and it was fantastic!

The girls all dress up in shorts skirts, fishnet stockings other various accessories and then they skate around smashing into each other to score points. There are a few more rules and such but that’s pretty much the gist of it. There were proper refs and loads of spectators, a really professional show, definitely going to go to the next one.

Below is some video I took whilst sitting on the side line during the final quarter!

This is my London Travelcard, it get’s me to and from work each day and gives me unlimited travel on the London Underground so that I can get from my house to the Waterloo…where my train to work leaves from.

It cost me £277.70 or $568.81 Australian Dollars! So it’s currently my most prized possession.

Work has been pretty good lately, been doing heaps of design work and am currently working on a new version of one of our sites and my boss has started teaching me Linux, PHP, and SQL

Looking for some new hosting too at the moment, got the latest hosting bill and it’s just too expensive for what I am getting (Australian hosting is just expensive) so I will be moving to either a US or UK host before the end of the month. Hopefully no one will notice any changes and thus have no problems but if you do let me know. Damo, Martin, Justin and Mum you all have email with me but if all goes to plan I wont need to do anything.

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This is a Northern Territory Barramundi that my Dad caught a few weeks ago whilst on a fishing trip. It was 1.16M long and must have weighed a tonne. Not the record but from what I hear pretty close.
This weekend I am going to the London O2 Festival which should be good, no Amy Winehouse but Counting Crows, Powderfinger and my favourite Jay-Z will be there.

So Friday night I got completely wasted in the city (near Trafalgar Square) with work friends. I was late to arrive so everyone was already trashed by the time I got there and had to play catch-up, which wasn’t that hard as they were all buying shots and double rounds. Anyways we all got plastered and I had to try and battle the tube to get home, unfortunately for me I fell asleep (passed out) and woke up at the end of the line. To top things off it just so happened to also be the last train off the night so I was stuck with having to catch a cab back home from there. Funny thing was while I was casually leaning on the timetable sign a bobby came over and asked if I was holding the pole up or if it was holding me up….quiet embarrassing. He was cool though and told me where I could find a bus or cab.

Sunday I went to Greenwich via the Thames Clipper’s which is London’s Citycat and checked out the Meridian line, Observitory and Musuem there. Afterwards I stayed for a pub lunch and some afternoon PIMM’s in the sun with friends, was a good end to the weekend.

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