Sun, 19 Jan 2003

author Tim	location Golders Green, Greater London, England
posted 21:32 GMT	section Europe2002/Europe/UK/England/London/Working in London 1 ( all photos )

Another Week ( No photos )
Yes, due to working they are starting to really fly by now. The only consoloation is that we can start to look forward to travel again. Oh, and of course Liz finally being able to work - she's still awaiting her registration. At this rate it will come in just before we leave!
Going out on a limb once again and talking about plans we are bound to change, we have one major thing on our horizon - a trip to Gallipoli for ANZAC Day. Since we have for many years got up hideously early to do dawn service marches around Sydney, and we are going to miss it this year, we thought we'd go one better.
This was all ok when we first thought of it, but now apparently John Howard has come out and listed it as a possible terrorist target at that time. While making us a little nervous, we still think we will get over there, stay out of the cities and packed-areas, surfacing only for the all-important dawn service.
Far from having a set plan as yet, Liz is researching some of the organised trips to see what the deal is. We may end up renting a car for a week or so, and having a look around Istanbul, making a little "holiday within a holiday" out of it.

Since the last update, we have of course done a few things:

• Liz did some wandering around local shops in the first half of the week, generally biding her time awaiting her registration to come through.
• I was at work, doing more of the same, except for Friday when I went to our Disaster Recovery (aka. standby or contingency) site down at Docklands. Interesting place, it is served by the Docklands Light Railway, or DLR to its friends. This was a strange experience - basically a tram, but with no driver! You can sit right at the front and watch the track come right at you. Technology these days...
• On Thursday, Liz came in to meet me at work for lunch at the nearby Old Spitalfields Market, before she headed off to the nearby Body Worlds Exhibition. Her review could be summarised as "confronting, strange, yet somehow interesting".
• Friday night was a big night up at the Local with Ryan, Chantelle and a few other friends. My first Karaoke experience is still haunting me. Let's just say I'll never listen to Bohemian Rhapsody in quite the same light. Saturday was a write-off, watching four movies and generally being lazy.
• Today we finally went and saw The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, at the Muswell Hill Odeon. Of course, a fantastic movie, but the combination of a completely packed cinema with way too many kids all talking for three hours made the overall experience somewhat lack-lustre.

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