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Too Much to Say |
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By Michael on
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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... What can we say.. We have been doing so much there is never time to Blog.
The past few weeks have been crazy..
-The notting hill festival
-My Huge Party
-Weekend away in Bath
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Sunny London BBQs |
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By Michael on
Monday, August 06, 2007
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27 degrees, clear blue sky, what else to do than bbq it on a saturday. This actually is a friends place in Acton, about 5 minutes drive from Shepherds Bush. It got so hot we had to sit under the umbrella.
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Our New Place |
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By Michael on
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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We havent posted for a while sorry about that. We have been so busy getting setup that it is hard to find the time.
We are settled in now. We are living in a house share with 10 people. It meets all the requirements with a large backyard, lounge room, en-suite, etc. It is normal london rate which are stupid like 175 pounds. Nearly 500 bucks.
The house mates are very cool. Young and fun. There is a few characters, some really funny ones some.
Also if you dont have facebook you need to get with the time. Click here to catch up.
We are having a poker party on friday night. Cant wait. Kick some poker arse. I will put some pictures up after that.
Here is an Album of our new Place: Click Here
Our room with our Ensuite and New Desk
Our backyard. Soon to host many a good parties. Including a poker party this weekend.
The skylight in our room.
This is a great photo of my Mum while talking over Skype.
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A Weekend in Paris |
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By Michael on
Monday, June 25, 2007
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We both loved Paris and had an exciting but exhausting time. We booked a coach online, which turned out to be a bad decision. The coach started from London at 11pm and was set to arrive in Paris at about 8am ( approx 8 hour journey.) After hardly sleeping our coach boarded a massive boat ( along with about 8 other coaches and many other cars. We didn't know what was going on as we weren't aware we had to catch a boat over to Paris. At 3am we were walking around this huge boat looking at perfume, getting beers and buying a bottle of French champagne duty free. After about 1.5 hours on board we docked and made our way down to our coaches. However, we were all left waiting in the coach as there was one person missing. We finally left an hour later and decided the person must have fell over board ha-ha. Because of the delay we hit rush hour and so the journey dragged on even more. Finally we got dropped off in Paris and had to try and find our hotel that was situated about 5-10 mins from Paris on train.
Our first day was spent on the double decker tour bus. We were soo tired because we hadn't really slept at all ( a few times throughout the day we fell asleep.) But we still enjoyed ourselves looking at all the sights. We stayed at The Wilson Hotel which we would recommend. It was cozy, reasonably priced, had a good location just 5-10 mins on train from Paris and a yummy breakfast included ( too many pastries!!)
The Ifle tower, Arc De Trump and The Lurve were all amazing. We wanted to have more time to explore The Lurve as there are just too many brilliant paintings and artifacts to be seen.
One of the best days we had was on a bike tour. We met about 5 minutes walk from the Ifle Tower to organise our bikes and meet the tour group. The bike Tour Company was American, but the tour guy was really nice and cool ( Texan.) He took us to Versailles which is a beautiful old country area 20 minutes on the train from Paris. On our bikes we visited a bussling market (French people travel from afar on Sunday to buy their food from this market.) We bought some lovely fresh fruit, pastries, baguettes, cheese etc. to eat on our picnic. We experienced how the royals live hundreds of years ago in an immaculately maintained castle. If anyone is going to Paris, make sure you book this tour up to Versailles.
Two other things we booked up worth a mention were the Moulin Rouge and The River Cruise. You can't not enjoy the Moulin Rouge, it's one of those things you should experience if in Paris despite the expense ( about 90 Euro each. ) We booked an evening river cruise and had an amazing night. The food, scenery and atmosphere were fantastic. The night was topped off when the Ifle Tower began to sparkle with hundreds of flickering lights while we drifted past. This is another thing worth experiencing as you are able to appreciate Paris' beauty from the water.
Luckily we didn't end up catching the coach back to London. Michael received a call while in Paris asking if he could start a job on Tuesday morning, so we had book the Euro Star (fast train taking just 2.5 hours.) to get back to London in time. We definitely would recommend catching the Euro Star and not bothering with a coach!!
(I just opened a designer store in Paris!!)
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A night out on the town in london |
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By Michael on
Monday, June 11, 2007
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Drinking on the South Bank of Tower Bridge is a great spot to start out; central, picturesque and relaxing. We met up with Steve and Alex who have come over from Australia and are travelling around Europe. We tried to get into a club at Mayfair called Mohiki (opposite the Ritz), but they are very strict on entry and if your not wearing the right shoes or have a collared shirt they won't budge.
We walked down the road and got into another nice club after sweet talking the bouncers; 20£ entry (we negotiated the girls getting in free!!) It started off tame, but at about midnight it was going off. There was no dance floor, you just dance anywhere and everywhere ( they played good dance/house music.)We left at about 2.30pm and got a cab to Docklands and crashed at Alex' cousins place (on the lounge for a few hours and then left at about 6.30am when we woke up.)
To get back to where we are staying in Kent it took us 3 Hours after walking, catching the tube and light rail and having to put up with this non stop wingeing pom on the train station. But all in all it was a great night!
We have uploaded the photo's to my online photo album.:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rid00z
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A trip to Paris 75 Pounds.... |
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By Michael on
Saturday, June 09, 2007
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So I know we should be looking for jobs, but when you are right next to the most romantic city in the world it's hard to keep focus. So we have decided to take a trip to paris.
Best of all the price is so cheap. We found a cheap return bus ticket for 20 pounds and also a hotel in the center of paris for a total of 55 pounds each for three nights. We also have booked up the moulin rouge for the sunday night.
We leave next thursday and return on the monday.
Here is the total cost:
1 x Return Bus Trip = £20
1 x 3 Night Accomodation in hotel = £55.50
1 x Tickets for moulin rouge = £67.50
Total = £143
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Skype, VOIP and free calls to landlines... |
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By Michael on
Sunday, June 03, 2007
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Hello
I thought I would share some cool information about VOIP and free calls. When travelling you always want to keep in contact with your friends and family.
Calling overseas can sometimes be very costly. You have a few options for making the calls, you can enable your phone for global roaming or buy a local sim card for the country. Both of these options are expensive. My mobile here cost 1 dollar a minute to call AUS. A cheaper way to make oversea's calls is to use VOIP or skype, Skype is fairly cheap but other voip providers are cheaper, alot do free calls to landlines in many countries.
Skype is great for video calls when both parties have a pc and webcam. For outbound calls it is still cheaper than a home phone. Calls to landlines in Australia are about 3c and calls to mobiles are about 30c a minute.
The best I have found are VOIP providers such as voipbuster.com and voipstunt.com. These company's have free calls to landlines in Australia and 25c calls to mobiles in Australia. These providers do not have applications for macs but they do support the SIP protocol. So to use it on my mac all I needed to do was download a VOIP application that supported SIP.
Because these providers support SIP it is possible to use any VOIP phone that support SIP. So when I return home and have a more stable address I will be able to buy a wireless VOIP phone and use it as a normal house phone only with free phone calls.
I would buy a phone like this.
Michael
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Houseshare we cant wait |
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By Michael on
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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Now that we have settled in, got over jet lag and started looking for jobs it is time to move into the heart of the city. The best option we have found seems to be houseshare, where you get a large house and share with other people your age. We think this will be the best because it will be great fun, we will get to meet loads of new people around our age, hopefully we will have a nice backyard with a BBQ for summer.
We are looking for a place with this criteria:
-Larger house, victorian, backyard, BBQ
-Living with 3-5 people (young
professionals, stay in, go out, BBQ, Aussie, Mix of Boys & Girls, not
party house, clean, english speaking)
-We want a social house but not a party house, Quiet during week and party on weekend
-A good area near the city(5mins), fulham, acton, shepards bush
-Near gym
-Large double room with own bathroom
-Wireless Internet
-Clean Kitchen
-Near shops, Station, nightlife, supermarket, not noisey
-Non smoking
-No Tools, Players, bitches or hoes
-No smoochy couples
Now doesnt that sound like the best fun...........
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Vietnam Photo's Online Now |
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By Michael on
Saturday, May 26, 2007
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We have uploaded all our photo's onto our web albums. We updated all the captions for the photo's. They should make for good viewing.
I used picasa web albums, there is a plugin for iphoto that lets your easly upload albums. It was so simple, create a logical album in iphoto, delete the photos you dont want, click file export to picasa and it was done, I would recommend picasa web albums.
Enjoy the photo's.....
http://picasaweb.google.com/rid00z
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