Thursday, April 12, 2007

ODD SUPRISES

SO WE'RE IN LONDON NOW. A few things happened that were odd.

1. On landing in Heathrow the plane was about to land on the runway it sped up and ascended. Apparently there was another plane on the runway and that if we landed we would've hit it. It was a bit scary, but the pilot handled it really well and we were totally fine.
2. There are buttloads of Australians and New Zealanders everywhere. In the place we're living there's 3 Aussie girls and 2 NZ girls, as well as me and Soryi. Crazy. Walking around the area or the city centre isn't much better.
3. Everything is strangely cheap, well, sort of. Food seems cheaper anyway. From takeaways I mean. For eg. £1.29 buys you 3 chicken pieces, chips and a can of coke. Admittedly the food looks pretty bad, but that's still a deal. On the otherhand Harrods food is WAY too freakin expensive to bother looking at. Other stuff is cheap and expensive too of course, but after we've got jobs I think it's going to seem cheaper than Dublin anyway.
4. There seems to be way more Irish pubs here, serving food especially, than there was in Dublin. Which is crazy. We had bangers and mash, and irish stew today, it was nice and only £4.95. We had the same in Dublin once for €16.95.
5. Ever heard of Guiness Red? Neither had I, but it was very nice.
6. We saw some famous people. And by famous I mean famous enough to have people taking photos and filming them getting out of their hotel room, but not famous enough to actually recognise them. HA!
7. We saw a FOX! It was cool.
8. We were watching an ad while I was typing this... An ad for a dress. "Hmm, that's a nice dress". And then the logo came on; Tesco*. Crazy.

Uh... I think that's it. We didn't really do much today, just walked a LOT. And I got a new phone.

IESSO

PS. Admittedly these things are really that odd. So far it's been very good.

* Tesco is a supermarket, equivalent to Coles maybe. Not good, or bad. But not good for sure.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

good to hear you're doing ok. let me know your temporary address - there's no way i'm lugging kool aid to brazil.

Elliott Scott said...

Dude, don't worry about it. Turns out they've got KoolAid over here!!! Cool huh?

See ya in a bit. Have fun in Brazil!

Anonymous said...

Elliott,

We are back from Japan. What a great place. Really nice people, very safe. A contrast at every corner. Shot 10 rolls of film. Got you some stuff, want to send it so its there for your birthday, do you have a permanent address???
If you only have temporary, how long will you be there??

Please let me know when the painting site is up, I want to see it and anxious to get some responses.

TOGG