Happy Christmas

If you're reading in Sydney Pinar went to the beach on Christmas day as well!

Sorry for waking you up with our phone call...we got the times wrong!

Wedding of the Turks

this is a turkish wedding we went to last night in london, it was very traditional. We actually had a good time.. and done abit of dancing of our own....

Empty London

Maybe it's the time of year but getting into the centre of London was unusually easy. Instead of the usual hustle and bustle, flurry of elbows and dodging of crackheads, I got an easy stroll to the station and jumped on an almost deserted train. In fact there was only one other person on it which is unheard of.

London would be a joy if it was like this every time. Still, it was only a day later it got it's own back when it took us 2 hours to drive 15 miles on a Sunday. Great.

Signs

Dubious health claims from cigarette firm and a dangerously ambiguous advert for sauce!

Old school

We went over to Beamish the other week to see how they lived in them old days. The place is a spooky reconstruction of 1914 with the whole area fenced off and set-up excatly how it was. They have actors walking around in period dress, a tram, a steamtrain and a whole village where you can basically walk around and take in the sights of vintage Britain.

The place has grown loads over the years and has a manor house, a mine!, a farm and all sorts of other things to see. You can go into all the houses/shops/banks etc and see how they did things in those days and they even have a fully working pub.

The Victorian dentist is always a favorite, but the sweet shop has all the old classics sold by the quarter.

It's pretty crazy walking round and seeing all the actors really hamming it up - I kept expecting them to mafuntion like those yul brinner robots in westworld! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/)

First day in Singapore

Our first day in Singapore was a bit of an ordeal because the long flight and change of time zones meant we had missed a full nights sleep. To make things worse the hotel wasn't ready when we got there so we had to walk round like zombies for a while.

To make matters worse we got caught in a cloud burst and when it rains there it really rains. Still it was over in a few minutes and it was back to being red hot. It feels like you're getting slowly steamed.

Singapore is great though - a strange mix of old and new, modern and ancient.