To Paris Tomorrow.

This is a draft post; I'll come back in a few days and add photos and write heaps better like.


Tuesday
Slept in, spent the afternoon in Soho and checked out a cool toy store (6 stories of cool toys!) and the Mac Shop (perving on the new MacBook Air).

Fel made us a lovely dinner of Tom Yum noodles.

Wednesday
Spent the day waiting for my friggin' bike. It came at 5:15pm. Afterwards we went to dinner with Em Ashbolt; we ended up in a pizza/pasta place on Upper St (which is a street famous for having lots of restaurants; a few kms of them apparently).

Thursday
Went to Oxford! Caught up with Simon Baptist and Justin. Had a great tour of the uni; Simon was a great tour guide and took us to places that you're not usually allowed into, and for free too.

Taught us that the expression: "to change at Baker St" is actually when you "change from pink to brown". And that if you type in "do you want to get food in the Crown" (a local Oxford pub) and don't check your predictive text, your first date could go quite wrong because it would read "do you want to get done in the brown".

Friday
Packed our stuff. I managed to fit my bike in a standard sized bike box (it was in an extra-long totally unwieldy box without handles previously). Went out for dinner with Fel at an awesome place called Bupusa Eathai or something (great Thai food; big queue out the front as you can't book, and cheap too!), then had crepes for dessert at a local crepe bar where we met Vince who had been working like a dog.

Went to a pub in Covent Gardens where Vince got dinner and we got some drinks; met up with Nathan Harris and his partner Em and also Jeff Brett and his partner Kim. Lots of reminiscing about old times at Hutchins.

Off to Paris tomorrow! Very exciting.