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Euro Adventures Pt 2 - The Longest Flight & London Livin

Who even made flying to the other side of the country so GODDAM painful!! Like that is 22 hours of my life that I will never get back! URGH! Being stuck on a plane is just not something that I enjoy... Alysha is DEFINITELY not a fan. 8 hours from Sydney to Singapore - with a 30 minute stopover (which wasn't actually a stopover, we just power walked from one end of the airport to the other) then 13 hours from Singapore to London. OH LORD THE PAIN OF IT ALL! Never have we felt such pain in our legs from being so confined (and we actually got up and walked around and stretched a fair bit). We still ended up with massive swollen pregnant lady feet and drunken room spins (even though we hadn't had any alcohol).

And plane food... Don't even get me started on plane food! Except for the roll... Highlight of every meal. You sit there thinking why am I eating this garbage... Then we remembered... Oh the bread roll. LOL. Four absolutely disgusting plane meals - I will definitely have to write a letter to all airlines, PICK UP YOUR GAME PEEPS.

Our transfer guy was not there to pick us up - that was awesome. Ended up calling the company and found someone (some asshole) from the company who could get us to our hotel. Seriously this guy was beyond rude. Alysha's line of the day: seriously you don't wanna mess with us, we are feisty. #burnbitch

Oh London. You are amazing. I'm sad we only have a day here before our tour starts... The building, the shops, THE STARBUCKS, the food, the bars, the Pimms.


SIDEBAR - What actually is Pimms? That is the question of the afternoon! Is it a liqueur? Is it a fortified wine? Is it a spirit? I don't know... And I don't care... Cuz it's AMAZING!!! We visited this little pub called The Jack Horner and had a jug of Pimms and some nachos. 

We walked up and down the streets near our hotel (so we didn't get lost - didn't want that to happen on our very first day) and enjoyed the GLORIOUS sunny 24 degree day, did a tiny bit of typical London themed touristy shopping:


To finish off our fantastic first day we caught with some friends who recently moved to London - yeah I do feel pretty posh saying I know people who live in London. It was absolutely amazing to be able to catch up with Brendan and Roslyn and I hope we can do it again once we return to London!


Absolutely exhausted after a very draining couple of days - we are off to sleep for our very early start tomorrow. Heading off on our Topdeck tour!! 

Sweet Dreams Y'all

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