Simon & Amelia's European Adventures

G'day All, reporting from sunny England where the temperature is a warm 25 degrees (better than the reported minus 3 in Canberra overnight). Since our last entry we have travelled to Buckingham Palace and caught the last of the changing of the guards, which was quite a good show ! The guards do look quite stupid with their massive hairy hats (resemble marge simpson somewhat). Still they had guns so we pretended to respect them. From here went went to the Imperial War Museum which had the Trench and Blitzkrieg Experience which were pretty good. There was a large Holocuast section which was quite intense. We went straight from there to an East End show so we went from War to singing Muppets which was an interesting combination! The show we went to was called Avenue Q which was really cool, it was like Muppets but not a kids show as they had a sex scene and a song called 'Internet is great for Porn'! It was hilarious! After that we met up with Ollie and Fritz and went out for some drinks and crashed at his place. All in all we had a good night, especially Amelia who loved dancing some dude named Sanchez from South America !

Toodles

We arrived in London from Cambridge yesterday and are staying with our friend Josh (Idol for the footy boys) in the outskirts of London. Today we went to the Tate Modern Muesem and saw a heap of Picasso's as well as some Warhol's and Mattisse's. While in town we also had a look at Big Ben and walked down many Monopoly streets including Pall Mall, the Strand, Picadilly Circus, Oxford St, Regent St, Trafalgar Square etc!!! We are thinking of catching a show tomorrow night in the West End which should be good fun (as long as it isn't Grease the musical) (Simon won't let me see Dirty Dancing the musical either) as well as having a chat to some guards with fuzzy hats and some Beefeaters! I also purchased a soccer strip today so I now offically support Aston Villa (sorry Norwich but you had no shirts anywhere !). It is funny to note that Aston Villa is actually in Birmingham, not in London, but I have had a soft spot for them ever since Aussie Mark Bosnich played with them !

We also plan to have some tea and scones soon, or at the very least some fish and chips.

Note 1 - We are trying to add some photos so have a look at our next post !

Note 2 - Dad, I grabbed you a soccer top today as well but they didn't have your size in Everton and Reading wasn't in the shop, so you now have a new team to support. The good news is that Stan Lazaridis used to play with them, the bad news is that they just got relegated !

Cheers

Simon & Amelia

Good Evening All, we are writing to you tonight from the home of one of England's most prestigious education facilities, Cambridge. It is a beautiful little town with very pretty countryside and our hosts Claire and Malcolm have made our stay here very welcoming indeed, providing us with a bed and great home cooked meals (with vegies, hooray! Thanks guys). We left Seville on Monday morning on Ryanair which was quite fun, but Amelia and I were still talking about the bullfight we witnessed the night before. I convinced Amelia we should go, stating that the bulls would die regardless of whether we decided to attend or not, and it would be a learning experience. It certainly was! Sitting on bricks crowded next to old Spanish men smoking, watching 6 bulls get killed by groups of men with spears, knifes and swords over 2 hours with the crowd cheering and waving white rags in the air, is certainly something we will never forget ! The victorious mattador received a winning trophy of a bulls ear, which should go well on any wall cabinet ! Despite this experience and how cute Seville was, I cant help but fell dissapointed that we stayed in Spain for so long at the expense of other locations. Overall the Spanish food was crap, the people were rude and the sights were average, we wont be coming back (Italy on the other hand we want to explore more). Tomorrow we are off to stay in London for a week which should be fun and I am trying to convince Amelia to go via Norwich to see my soccer teams home ground !

Speak to you all soon!

Toodles

p.s Mum, I got you something from Cambridge today which I know you will love, it is just so difficult to carry around. I might have to send it home ! I'll give you a clue, this particular thing often wears a rain jacket !

Hoo Roo