everything's coming together

Yesterday I had to go to Stratford on the other side of town to pick up my accreditation so I can work at the Olympics.
My photo is like on this massive pass with my details and even on a lanyard,  faaaancy. Haha but seriously, it looks pretty cool because it's so official and makes me feel like I can flash it around and be like "hey guess where I work guys"
 

prettiest mirror ever

After this we went the new Westfield, which is the biggest in Europe! It has everthing there- H&M, Forever21, TopShop (totally puts the one around the corner from Dr Marriot's office to shame haha)
 

designer cupcakes ;)

Nothing much else has happened since then- we also checked out our house in Leyton yesterday afternoon and this morning I opened a UK bank account- woo fun times.

Things are a bit dull right now.
The highlight of my day so far has been skyping with my two puppies sorry mum
So here are some more photos from during the week and as you can tell by my classy photos, unfortunately I am still lame even in England. 

 British Museum

Me and good old Lizzy get on like a house on fire

Buckingham Palace

Paddington!

London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady.

Today is was a beauuuutiful sunny Summers' day in London- 20 degrees! Everyone had shorts on and sunglasses, whilst I was still wearing tights and a jacket!
But seeing as the sun was out today, we decided to be mass tourists and go and visit the Buckingham Palace. The changing of the guards was sooo cool! The guards that protect the palace are some of the  highest ranking men in the British Army and it's considered a prestigous honour to be asked to do so.
Unfortunately, Liz didn't come out and give us a wave from the balcony haha

After this we walked through the park till we got to Westminister Abbey. It was really pretty and I was just in awe to think that this is where Kate and Wills got married !




We made our way round to Palace of Westminister aka the Houses of Parliament. The architechture and detail that went into the design of this place was insane. The extravagent neo-gothic style was all the rage back then- it was absolutely incredible to look at.

Big Ben was beautiful. The gold surrounding the clock face was practically glistening in the sun!

Next, we went on a very, very long and tiring walk back past St Pauls Cathedral, Millenium Bridge,  The London eye and the very ugly London Bridge (which is not what the song is about-apparently this Bridge is in America now!) till we got to the Tower Bridge.
It had the big Olympics rings hanging on it and it was painted so brightly, it like the perfect symbol of London!

 Ps- Tahnee look, it's King Henry VIII 's house!

Typical London weather- raining!

Today we went to the British Museum :) There was so many things to see, I think it is literally impossible to see everthing in one day. We were there for over two hours and we barely even finished looking at everything on the first floor!

A statue of Hercules' head in the King's Library at the British Museum.

I saw the 'main' things like the Lindow Man and the Rosetta Stone but my favourite part was definitely seeing all the jewellery from the different cultures in the past. Some of it was so pretty, I wanted to take it home to wear myself!

London is so full of beautiful, ornate buildings and pretty things everywhere that it's just so tempting to take a photo of everything you see! 

We went on a hunt for St Pauls Cathedral and after about two hours of walking in circle and a stop off at TopShop, we finally made it there! Luckily, we arrived just as the afternoon service was about to begin and we watched the Choir Evensong perform- they sounded like angels! The inside of the catherdral was probably the most beautiful thing I have ever layed my eyes on. The ornate detailing the of amazing carvings on the walls, the massive pillars, the gold, gilded roof surrounding the incredile paintings of Saints was truly breath taking.

Goodbye Melbourne, Hello London!

I am finaallyyyyy here!
After months and months of crossing off days on the countdown calander on my wall, I can very happily say that I am actually here!

I flew out of Melbourne at around 3.30pm on Thursday and after an eight hour flight I arrived in the impressive Singapore. Next to me on the flight, I had a German male ICU nurse and an English marketing businesswoman and they talked to eachother the entire flight in French, it was so interesting to listen to!

The flight from Singapore to London was 13 hours but luckily I had two spare seats next to me on the plane, so I was able to lay down and spread outtt :)

I arrived in Heathrow Airport  at about 7am. Getting through the UK border and customs was much faster than everyone had told me it would be and in no time at all I was on the Tube whizzing through London's underground railway system. Pulling my two massive suitases up and down stairs and through London's winding streets,absolutely exhausted me- therefore I was very glad to finally arrive at my accommadation.

How pretty!!

Once I'd checked in and everything was finalised, I went for a bit of a wander around the streets. I only had to walk 5 minutes down the road and I knew I was in love. Everything about London is just so London, if that makes sense.
The old Victorian style houses line the streets and are by far my favourite thing I've seen so far. The detailing on everything about these cute, litlte houses is so exquisite and delicate. I feel like I'm walking on the set of some English movie and Hugh Grant is going to appear and ask me to join him for a spot of tea.

PS- I'm watching Neighbours atm. It's so funny that this is their idea of a great drama haha