London and Leeds

Been in London for a week now. Ben's been studying hard (ie. doing nothing, just not partying) so I looked elsewhere to entertain myself. At the last minute on Friday night I decided on to visit Alex and Simon up in Leeds.

While they live in separate apartments now the boys live with remarkable similarity to how they did in Montreal. Student-style housing with lots of boys living in the same house, partying as much as possible, watching a stupid amount of football and squeezing some study in from time to time. Not to mention having Australians living on their couch...

Traffic upped my bus-trip from 4 to over 6 hours which was a whole world of fun but I managed to find someone to talk to who complains even more than I do which managed to shut me up for the duration. I got in just after 11pm and practically had alcohol shoved down my throat. It was good to feel welcome.

We headed to a few bars and ended up in one of the more notorious clubs in town. Somehow I managed to find my way back to Alex's place while he slept soundly inside with the door locked and his phone turned off as I drifted off to sleep on the landing outside. Luckily I didn't stay there long as his roommates came home shortly thereafter and let me in. I re payed Alex's kindness by climbing into bed with him and proceeded to deprive him of further sound sleep by snoring his ear off.

The next night went a little better and to our surprise we got into one of the best clubs in town. Cheap drinks, decent music, hot tubs and general shinanigans. I don't think I got to sleep until well after 8am. Good night.

I made my way back down to London in a more timely fashion and got some rest. The next day I met up with Dad again as he is in town for the week. We went out to the Wine Bar with some of his friends and ended up at a Tapas bar until they ushered us out. It was interesting seeing Dad - or 'Oz' as he is called - in his own environment with his own friends. Clearly he too feels a little more comfortable outside of Perth. But then most people who leave do...

I have just booked my flights to Norway and it looks like I am staying put until early December before flying into Oslo. Ben finishes his exams today and we're heading out with Jared. Hopefully I won't end up walking home in the rain this time. It's a fair bit colder now than it was in May.