So where were we?

Okidoke, it's time for the next chapter of where in the world is Cassie Wilson? While we all know I'm actually in Adelaide, pretend for a moment that I am supremely up to date and currently in London, just after the Contiki tour ended. I'm sure you could do it, if you really tried...

Anyhoo, the day after Contiki finished, me and a few contiki people headed out into the wonderland that is shopping in London. First up, we bought our tix to Spamalot, which were a glorious £18. Rock on! Then it was off to Oxford Street, that mecca of shopping. After wandering and meeting random contiki people along the way, we ended up in Primark, glorious glorious Primark (www.primark.co.uk). I spent £52 (and claimed the Tax Free non-UK resident thingy!) and bought 12 items, including underwear, socks, a travel bag, shoes, three jumpers, a hoodie and various other things. I love Primark! We then wandered back via Kathmandu (who knew it was in the UK) before getting ready for the theatre. Oh, and I was supposed to stay at Vanessa's that night, but unfortunately she had a full house, so I organised with yet more contiki people to hostel it up with them. Yay! Anyhoo, we went to Spamalot and my wordy, was it funny ha ha! Pissed myself laughing, even if they had lifted a lot of the jokes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But hey, those jokes work for a reason... cos they're bloody funny! Even more so in musical form. Not to mention "The Song That Goes Like This" and a gay Lancelot and Spamalot casino and the Knights of Ne and Tim the Enchanter and the French... ah, so funny!

The next day, I lugged my heavy, heavy, HEAVY bags to London Bridge, past the Borough Markets and onto the Thames promanade to meet Vanessa for a key exchange. I was meeting her at the Starbucks near her work, but could I find the bugger?? Of course not! So I gave up, sat on the wall seperating the Thames from the walkway and rang my sister. Heh. After I hung up, I saw some kids with Starbucks paraphenalia, so asked where it was. Wouldn't you know it, it was about five steps from where I had collapsed! Anyway, made it there, Vanessa met me, we did the huggy, catchyupy thing, ate Dutch Spice biscuits and then I trundled off to her house. Yay! That night, we met a friend of Vanessa's in a bar in Soho (no Lolas, tho) and I took a photo of G-A-Y (thanks Scooter!). We then went to Angel for some dinner at a really cool Turkish restaurant, before wandering the streets of Angel, taking random photos and eating dessert at a little French cafe thingy. It was so nice to be back with Vanessa!

The following day, it was back to London Bridge tube station and the Borough Markets. Vanessa & I went there with Vanessa's new housemate, Bree. Seriously, you have no idea how good these markets are. Everything is available there, from fresh produce to wine to big wheels of cheese melted under a flame and then the melted cheese scraped onto a piece of bread for your gustational pleasure. You even have random spilling of mulled wine on your backpack! Yay! We had lunch at the BBQ Nazi (Vanessa's affectionate name for the guy - not that he was there), which was super yum. After the markets, Bree left us and Vanessa and I went to Notting Hill and Portobello Road. Awesome fun times, with lots and lots of antique stalls, fabulous food and then regular markets. We then went to the Hummingbird Bakery for fun times with cupcakes! Mmmm. We then walked along Kensington Gardens until we got to the beginning of Hyde Park, while Vanessa suffered the tortures of the damned with a bizarrely suddenly painful knee. We then attempted to get back to Balham, but the Northern line decided that it wanted to stuff up and have a gazillion people trying to get on the tub. So Vanessa then took me on a wild goose chase trying to get from Oxford Street to Clapham Common. We caught four buses and we finally got there, deciding to go and see a movie, little realising that the weather was going to take a turn for the worse and be absolutely freezing! Vanessa didn't have a jacket so the poor chickie was freezing in the London wind, ugh. Anyway, we saw Rendition, which was kinda good, and then it was home time!

Sunday was a relaxing day of not much at all, sleeping in and doing laundry and having a cheese platter and a cappucino for lunch. Mmmm. I think we just hung out that night, chillin like villians. It was fabulous!

More on the adventures later, kids. Until I blog again!
mwah!
xx