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Hay everyone,

Hostel Pub Crawls - Avoid!
On Thursday night I decided to join the Hostel Pub Crawl in the Camben area. Now I'm not a big fan of Hostel pub crawls as they are usually sh*t and of course this was no excemption. They should change the word crawl to Marathon as there was a good 15/20 minute walk to each pub. One of the pubs we did check out was The Dublin Castle, its kinda a Spirit Store type pub playing up and coming bands everynight. Its were Blur, Madness and Coldplay all started out apparently!

Agony

All my walking on Thursday did not really help the aul legs on Friday, they were killing me. So it was either stay in bed or get up and do things fairly slowly at my pwn pace, I decided to do just that. I head for the tube and decided to check out Covent Garden. Now this place is fecking class. The market is not really up to much but the wide range of street performers is just amazing. You could spend your entire day here watching the street entertainment.

I came across a band called Lotus, they were kind of an mad classic band, but really good. Check out the video recording I took of them. (It might take a minute or two to load!)

what u think of them? I bought there C.D. if anyone wants a copy.

I'll think i'll leave it at that for today. The plan now for the rest of the day is to chill out before hitting Picadilly Circus later on for a night on the town.

All the best.

Colin

Hi All

Arrived yesterday to the hostel, did'nt really like the area at first (Kings Cross) But as you walk around it gets a lot better. The hostel itself is grand, the Generator, heard so much about this place which I must say is extremley over rated. Took a wee wonder around last night and had a few pints of Abbot Ale (Cask Ale) really nice stuff, great way to relax after a fair bit of travelling.

Today I spent a very exausting day working around a SMALL part of London. First impression is quite positive, the parts of the city I have seen so far shows London as a clean modern city and I must say the people are really friendly. Its easy enough to get around and the underground is very user friendly

First attraction of the day was St. Pauls Cathedral. Its amazing if you like those kind of buildings. The present structure dates from the 17th century, and is generally reckoned to be London's fifth St Paul's Cathedral, although the number is higher if every major mediæval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral.

It would have a similar design to St. Petrers in Rome, espescially the Dome, which when you climb to the top you get one of the Best views of London. Down below in the crypt there is carvings, statues, memorials and tombs of famous British figures including Nelson, Churchill and Florence Nightingale. However the first person to be interred in St Pauls was its deseigner Sir Christopher Wren and his memorial reads ......"Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" which translates to "Reader, if you seek my monument, look around you"

On from St. Pauls it was a walk over the new Millenium bridge and on around the banks of the Thames, up past the famous London Bridge before talking time out to let my T-Shirt dry from the bloody sweat. Next stop was the infamous London Tower and Palace. Its an amazing site and perfect building for photographing.

That was enough for day one, 5 hours walking around London, think I'lltake the underground tomorrw....easier on the feet.

I will upload photo's as soon as I can get a proper computer (no usb port on this one - ancient!)

Right thats it for now

Colin

Enjoy!

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
St. Augustine

Time to start reading this book St. Augustine was on about. Chapter 1, spending 3 months travelling from Dundalk to New York. Sounds good, really excited about it, been waiting for this for a long time. Its long itinerary for a short period of time but still allows plenty of freedom to experience some amazing sites and cities.

The main cities I hope to see along the way are:

* London
* Bangkok
* Sydney
* Fiji
* Los Angeles
* New York

Hopefully I'll get to see alot more apart from the above. Sure you never know, if a certain place appeals to me I just might hang around that wee bit longer.

I'll be posting updates, photo's and videos on this blog during my trip so be sure to call back and stay in contact

Cheers
Colin