Also, Steph, the other night we were in a pub doing trivia, and Nick was like, Noel Fielding just walked in. And I was like WHERE. And then I looked over and it wasn't Noel Fielding, which was disappointing. So this is almost a cool story :P But our new flatmate told us that she had dinner down the road the other night and Keria Knightley was at the table next to her, which is so cool.
Last weekend Nick and I spent a long weekend in Brighton. Coincidentally, Claire Bowman was spending a night there too, which was awesome! The beach was nice, but weird because it doesn't have sand, only pebbles. People weren't even taking their shoes off to walk on the beach! It was so weird and Nick and I were beach snobs haha! We have the best beaches in Australia, we're so spoilt there!
Brighton is really cool. It's sort of like a big Byron Bay. Lots of cool places to eat, and interesting little shops in groupings of tiny alleyways. Nick and I found an amazing shop that had military paraphernalia from the 1600s onwards, like swords, pistols, uniforms... It was seriously our dream shop! There are also some great flea markets and I found an antique shop like the Paddington Antique Centre - packed full of all sorts of bits and bobs. The antiques in the UK are incredible - stuff that's rare in Australia, like the old cameras I collect, is so easy to come by here. Needless to say, we'll be going back to Brighton, maybe when the weather gets warmer! If you guys visit the UK, I'd strongly recommend taking a day trip or spending a weekend there - it's only an hour away from London on the train.
Nick and I moved in to our new flat yesterday, which I am so so so happy about! I finally feel properly settled in. We had to stay in a hostel for a week and it wasn't that nice. I didn't enjoy using the communal bathrooms. Usually I'm totally fine with sharing bathrooms, but these ones didn't feel super clean. Also, I only had the clothes that I had packed for Brighton because I thought we'd have our big suitcases, but we had to climb six flights of steep stairs to get to our room - there was no lift - so it would have been impossible to lug them up there. We picked up our bags from Claire's place yesterday, where we'd stored them while we were in Brighton, and I was so happy to discover clothes and make-up I'd forgotten I had! It feels amazing to be able to unpack things and start setting up my home.
The area where we live is like Paddington in Brisbane. I can walk 50 metres from my front door to a tiny cocktail bar and cute cafes. 100m away is a big pub with a massive outdoors area, which is very rare in London - I'm excited to use that space in the summer. I have a feeling that pub might become a sort of living room for us, since we don't have a living room at our flat. We live close to a large roundabout and each street that sprouts off it has a different sort of character. There are awesome shops and places to eat along each of them. Nick and I went for a big explore of our area the other day and walked for hours. We can pretty much just walk to wherever we need to go now. It is such a releif to be out of Paddington and Bayswater where we've been since we arrived - They are hotel districts and packed full of tourists, so it's so great to be in the 'suburbs' now and to feel like actual Londoners and not in transit anymore.
I'm really keen to skype call you guys, so I might try giving you a call sometime this week one evening (Australia time).
And now I shall leave you with some photos of beautiful Brighton!
Much love xxx
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| Brighton Pier |
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| In a pub right on the beach, called The Fortune of War |
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