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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So I’ve been back here in London for a couple of weeks now trying to get settled in, get a place to live and find myself some work.

I got myself a nice new laptop (Samsung R700) so that I can keep blogging, do some work and take advantage of the free wireless in my new place, that’s right I also found somewhere to live
It’s a studio apartment in a share building so to speak, most the places in London are like this (where they convert a house into a heap of separate rooms. It’s good cause I have my own kitchen and bathroom too, but get to meet people as well.

Unfortunately I am still looking for work, hanging out for a good job I think, I have an interview tomorrow so I hope that goes well. If not I think I will just have to bite the bullet and take a shit job until I can find something better.

I did a little sight seeing when I first arrived as you can see above I visited the Buckingham Palace during the changing of the guards, that was pretty sweet….loads of people and it took forever.
I also checked out London bridge and the London tower which were also really nice. Once I get a job and some money I will check out the things that cost like Madame Tussards, The London Dungeon & The London Eye.

All in all I am still having a good time here, it reminds me a lot of Melbourne but that’s properly just the weather…totally need new clothes once I get a job too.

Leyton is sending me a HDD with TV shows and movies I have missed so I am really excited about that because going to the cinema here costs a friggen fortune!

Well that’s it for now, I know I have said this a lot but I will try to blog more often….I know it will make my Mum happy

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After a 7hr bus ride and 2hr ferry I have arrived in Corfu, Greece’s most beautiful island!

The island is a lot bigger then I expected the taxi took 30mins and €30 to get to the hotel, but it was on the top of a hill on a beautiful white pebble beach with clear water in the foreground and mountains in the back….very picturesque. The hotel has breakfast and dinner included and was only €20 per night

I hired a car on the second day so I could get around a bit, the hotel is nice but because it’s off season it’s really dead and the pool bar kinda sucks.
Tiny, windy mountain roads, crazy Greek drivers and right hand side driving rules…it felt like the first time I ever got behind the wheel. I only drove a little but boy I was petrified. The next day I didn’t drive and sat by the pool as I was still kinda nervous about driving so I just had some cocktails and a swim

On the following day it was overcast so I went for a drive again, this time around the island. It was pretty bad but I calmed down and it all started to come back, by the end of the day I was sticking it into the corners and passing the slow tourists on the bends like a local.
The next 2 days it was pretty shite weather and rained most the time so I watched DVD’s and staying in a bit.

I finished the trip with a few good days of sun so i managed to getr some beach time in, however people beaches kinda suck compared to sandy ones but it was still really nice. The water on the other hand is beyond freezing, I doubt anyone could stay in it longer then 10mins or so.

Back to London tonight, I got a cheap flight with EasyJet so it will only take a few hours. As most of you that I have emailed or chatted to know…I am now broke as, so I am going to be working pretty hardcore once I get to London. I plan to get a laptop so I can keep up to date and do some web work from home and finally get my photos online.

I hope everyone has enjoyed the first leg of my World Tour (as if anyone really reads this crap anyhow) and I will hopefully speak/chat to you all personally soon.

Cheers

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Come visit Greece in a few years, they should be finished by then!

Seriously though all the buildings are half finished or are open but the 2nd floor is all exposed cement and steel…very strange, maybe they ran out of concrete, it looks like they use a bit.

Had some really nice food here in Athens, better then I expected as the entire city is dirty and decrepit. The people however are really wonderful and very helpful. Everything obviously is in Greek and unlike the other countries they are a different alphabet so trying to find a street would be impossible without asking someone.

On the second day I visited the Acropolis and a few other local monuments and ruins. Sure they were great but either I have seen too many now or they just don’t stand up to Rome because I was not impressed. They were doing a lot of restoration work and most things at the Acropolis were covered in scaffolding, so it kinda took the wow factor away.

I did visit the original Olympic Stadium from the first modern games of 1906 and it was pretty much in pristine condition…because it was all concrete.

I head for Corfu Island soon so I really can’t wait for that, I know all I have been doing is holidaying but I am beat. A week in the sun will do me good before I head back to London.

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