well my welcome to london was with beautiful weather, so i tired and weary owen walked the streets of london in somewhat of a daze.

i asked for directions to buckingham palace, (maybe the queen was doing the lawn mowing or something, maybe i could invite william out for a pint) and the guy was like "its a long walk from here, it'll take you about 45min"

that was fine. it gave me a chance tosee more of the city. the problem came when i got to buckingham palace. it started to drizzle.

which was fine. i thought "this must be the light drizzle they get here everyday that everyone has been tellling me about.

everyone had umbrellas handy- must be a london thing i thought.
then it started to piss down.

and i got SOAKED. even my shoes made that horrible squishy sound when i walked. urgh!

but i survived and i got back to my hostel which the lonely planet guide calls " the grooviest back packer joint in london"

all the staff have blue polo shirts on and act so friednly like their working at genmeral pants or something. gross. i hate tht fake friendlyness.

anyway they have £1 pints here everynight between 6-9pm, so ithink that should be enough to keep me around.

i am sharing a four bed dorm with two other guys. all the dorms seem to be same sex. dont know weather that is a good thing or not yet.

xO