This weekend I went to the ‘Taste Of London’ a food a wine exhibition in Regent’s Park, London.

It was awesome, like a trade show for food and wine. So I love food, cooking and drinking so if any of you had yet realised I would have loved it.

I couldn’t believe how many people went, it was like the ekka, this kind of thing totally wouldn’t work in Brisbane….actually the Caxton St seafood festival was packed but I think everyone was just there to get fucked up, rather then enjoy the seafood.

Anyways I had some awesome food, wine, beer, cider and PIMM’s….some English spirit mixed with lemonade and fruit, which everyone drinks in the summer. I even brought home a heap of cheese, bread, curry and chutneys for dirt cheap.

Today (Sunday) I hacked out the overgrown mess that was my backyard. The back courtyard of my studio has a raised deck which was completely covered with vines and tree branches so you couldn’t get out there, the landlord said he would trim it before I moved in but clearly it hasn’t been touched in years, so I trotted down the the local B&Q (Bunnings) and got a pair of garden shears. I spent a few hours back there and after loads of pikes and some pretty messed up blistery hands its all cleared.
To celebrate I had a BBQ, English style, I bought a disposable BBQ from the supermarket (small tray with a metal grill and coals and had myself a barbee.

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Just a quick note to say everyone can checkout my photos on FaceBook now, I am working on getting a plugin to bring them straight into my blog but it´s taking ages to find one to work. In the mean time you can click on the link in the “Eurotrip Gallery” or here to see them.

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Hey all

Just thought I would let you know I updated my blog settings today so I could use some new editing tools. Please let me know if it stuffs up at all….my German is still rusty.

P.S I know the gallery is broken, I will fix that soon

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Well as a few of you know already I am heading overseas for 12 months in March and now it’s finally definite, I now have my plane tickets to London. I am leaving on the 18 March 08 for London, then I will be spending 2-3 months traveling around Europe via rail seeing as much as I can. Then I plan to head back to London and work for 4-5 months and hopefully save enough money to spend 2 weeks in German for the Oktoberfest and then over to New York to start my road trip across the states to Los Angeles. By the time this is finished it should be about mid November and time to start my Canadian ski season job at Whistler Ski Resort in Canada for the next 4 months.

I plan to keep a constant blog packed full of pictures so keep posted and leave comments when you can.

Monday night I picked up my new car. A white 1993 BMW 318i

I got it pretty cheap and with new 18″ chrome rims too! It’s in really good condition and runs well, I will probably end up putting it in an auction in a couple of months after I replace a few worn things so hopefully turn a profit on it.

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