Living in London

So I may have started slacking already, my bad. Please bear with me as I try to find the right words to summarise the past 3 months...

• There's a lot to do and a lot to explore: Museums (for a rainy day), day-trips and parks (for sunny days) and markets (everyday!)
• We've already become a local. Big Ben? Pshh. Trafalgar Square? Been there. Tower Bridge? Done that. Red telephone booth and red double decker bus? Next!

Yawn!

• But I miss the sun and blue skies. At first I thought we brought Sydney over with us (the photo above was taken on our first day!), but I don't think we've had many other days like that in while. Boo.
• Things are expensive! The £ no longer freaks me out, but does (mostly) everything need to be so expensive?? Our first week was all "Oh that's not too bad! Hold on, multiply that by two... Ok, nevermind."
• Finding an apartment was a full-time job in itself. We arrived just as uni was starting so not only were we competing with other working professionals; we were also being bullied by them rich uni students. It took us approximately 4 weeks before finding a place that ticked the majority of our criteria and even then we weren't sure whether we were going to get it.
• Places like this exist:

  

  Yes, that is a slide. Yes, it says £3,500 per week. Yes, it is awesome!!!
  Can I just rent it until the novelty wears off?

• Coffee is everywhere but good coffee is hard to find. Ok, maybe I exaggerate cos the one down the road isn't that bad. Having said that, our tea cupboard at home is starting to grow.
• Funemployment isn't so much fun anymore :( More on that later...
• The markets are amazing. You've got your regular supermarkets but with a market open everyday right outside your door, you can't really go back.

Variety, freshness and colour!

• You get to disconnect on the tube. For those that like to catch up with friends or read the news online on their way to work, bahahaha jokes on you - there's no reception. I can't even tell people I'm running late cos they'll just receive it when I get there. Late for a date? Oh well, blame it on the toob! (Positives: I've memorised the entire Central line.)

I'm really enjoying my time here. We've made new friends and caught up with old, seen some amazing architecture (hello, Cambridge!), discovered so much from museums (yay free entry) and walking tours (yay also free), and learnt much more about myself than I would have otherwise. It's also great to be doing all of this with my partner in crime.

You beaut: Cambridge 2015 - King's College.

Next post will be sooner rather than later (I hope!), over and out.