London

So after Moscow we flew direct to London and spent a week looking for a flat and getting bank accounts set up etc. Surprisingly it wasn't easy for two people from another country with no credit history and no jobs to secure a flat. Luckily my very kind Uncle said that he would be a guarantor for us so that we could get a place. We looked at a few places around London but we ended up applying for a 1 bedroom flat in Willesden Green (NW London). It's close to the tube station and it's a pretty quick journey into central London. And it's about 50 metres from the supermarket.

We didn't do too much sight seeing as it's pretty expensive to be a tourist in London. We're talking $50 to go to Madam Tussaud's, $25 to go to Westminster Abbey and God knows how much to go on the London Eye. And yes, i know the museums are free. But anyway we decided that we've got plenty of time to see the London sights so we just strolled around. Here's a pic of Nate with Big Ben and Buckingham Palace.

Anyway it took a while to get everything sorted out as real estate agents here are just as useless as those in Perth so we had some time to kill. Nate mentioned in a previous post that we got some cheap bus tickets to Cardiff, so we headed off to Wales for a few days (which turned in to a week).