Sunday, June 10, 2012

Abbey Road, planning for Europe

So the end of the trip is nearing now. In just under a month, we will be going on our big Europe tour.  This means what we have been doing lately is a lot of housekeeping in order to be ready to leave the country with little preparation time later.  Since we will be working right up until the day before the tour, we have been taking care of banking, set up an inventory with the estate agent, did tons of cleaning, weighed all our bags to see what can go home with us and what we need to sell, planned and paid for the tour, checked into paper work for the agencies we work for, dealt with the pay company, rent, deposit, applied to jobs in Canada, sold things, arranged for storage of things while we're on the tour, booked a hotel for when we get back to London the night before the flight... It's been a busy week.

Aside from that, we finally got to see Abbey road. It was hilarious. There was a ton of traffic and every now and then, there would be a tiny break which would leave just enough time for someone to run into the road, get their picture, and run the rest of the way across it, only to bolt back to the other side to redo the picture.  Fortunately for us, there were friendly people willing to take our pictures if we took theirs. It was a difficult process, with no real order. We would wait 20 min, finally be able to walk onto the road and find that crazy teenagers have decided to run into the picture and play dead in the middle of the road, so we would have to wait again. Pain in the butt! We were able to give one of the tourists information though. Suggest things to see and where to go to get there. It's pretty cool to be able to know London England well enough to say oh, yeah, check out the Science Museum. It's just outside of the South Kensington Station. Just follow the signs from the station, or hmm check out the Freud Museum. It's not too far from here, just take the road to Finchley Road Station and walk. I like having a sense of direction and knowledge of the city. I probably know London better than Windsor, due to always taking the bus to the same places in Windsor and not really bothering with the rest.

Aside from all that, what we have left is about 4 weeks of work, groceries, cleaning and doing the rest of our sightseeing. I can't believe one of the Americans I was talking to said he'd seen everything he wanted to see in 4 days. I still haven't seen it all. Then again, I don't believe I've seen all I want to see in Windsor either. Always further exploration to do.

Well I suppose for now this will be my update. I may get around to another blog or 2 before leaving but for now everything interesting is covered. I wonder if I can blog on tour... Maybe on the bus. Definitely want some sort or written record to read back through and giggle at later.