London at Last

Phi Phi Island which was devistated in the
tsunami, but now all back togehter,
although those who have been here before
say it's completely different now.
Did some fabulous snorkelling here &
there's some fabulous remote islands that
you could enjoy, but we only did a day trip.













Check out that pile of chillies, there's never enough chillies in Thailand!
The fabulous Markets which I just loved & we tried
some great food & drinks, Thai donuts & sweets,
sugar cane juice which was fab & totally different taste
to what I've tried in Melb & I had a local
milkshake which they carry around in little plastic
bags & I didn't even mind that it was strawberry,
which I would normally refuse! trip.
The array of foods available was amazing &
most we had no idea what it was, & the fish &
chicken out in the open with flies all over & a bit
of ice to keep it somewhat cool!!!
We were still game & tried some interesting stuff.

Hello All Readers,
Well we hit London last night & it was a relief to feel the cold air except it's raining now & has been for a few days. We are staying with our first freeloader Habiba Nabatu who is African & absoutely beautiful & helpful & so welcoming & going out of her way to help us, it's amazing & so comforting, so trusting & open it retores your faith in the human race. We are here until 27 May then head to our next freeloader spot. If you know anyone about to travel then pass on the word about this 'Global Freeloader' site, it works & is fantastic!
On our budget we have less than £40 per day, a train ticket costs £5.40 each so the money's not going to stretch far. We went to St Paul's Cathederal but it was £9 to go in for a look, the outside was very pretty!
Anyway I'm very excited to be here, I feel like a kid with their first lollypop. Today we're just looking around & getting our bairings & sussing out how much everything is & what we're going to be able to afford to do!!! The feet are going to get a good work out!
We had to have a pub meal & try a british beer which we enjoyed, but that was the budget for the day.
The train system is almost identical to Melb so it makes it very easy, but the place seems huge & there's so much to see.
I think I would really like to work here as I feel I've been waiting a long time to get here & it feels so right.
I take back the statement about carrying all this stuff in my backpack, I had on the warmest dress, singlet, my jumper, coat, scarf, beanie & gloves; am I glad I packed it all, it was cold & wet. That's London!!!
Thanks for all your comments & don't panick we do read them, a copy of every comment gets automatically sent to my email address, so we see them all. But you need to make sure you sign your name as it's a bit hard to guess who's writing sometimes!
Nik please send your email address as the one we have doesn't work & if that was your comment without a name - keep the chin up fella, we want to see you over here sometime.
Off for another day of sightseeing in the rain, when I get Kyle off the game machine that he has access to, making up for lost time. Will post some photos when we have some as forgot the batteries for the camera yesterday. But have our packed lunch with us to save a bit that way, a bit different from Malyasia & Thailand where you can eat out 3 meals a day!!!
But I can tell you it's good to get a good coffee, I had to give up for a month as it wasn't worth it in M & T the asians don't get it like we do!
Take care all, Love Mazz & Kyle XXX