London Arrival

St Paul's Cathedral at dusk

For those of you who may not be aware Dave and I are now based in London.  We arrived a week ago following a 27 hour plane journey and a 1.5 hour immigration queue (we really need to get Dave some sort of EU pass).

Here we'll be documenting our adventures and answering the big questions. 

For the first week we have been frantically trying to find a more permanent base, which I'll be talking about in another post.  But now that is finally (almost) sorted and we can get on to the more important task of behaving like tourists.  Though we did manage to get our first "Are you South African?" the other day, so perhaps we are already well on our way to being tourists.

We'll be based in Hampstead, for those who may not be intimately familiar with London suburbs it's north west of the city.  It has a really lovely feel to it, the short time I've been there, with little cobblestone laneways and Parisian style cafes.  Our place is pretty small, but I think that's fairly standard for London.

We've already been planning our first trip away, we're thinking Ireland, just because that's something so few Aussies do and we're crazy cats that way.