HOLA!

With a record breaking 3 hours sleep, we woke up today and started on our adventure to the city of BARCELONA. Yes that's right, I'm writing this from my hotel room, one street back from Las Ramblas (a popular tourist destination). Its  a street filled with markets, pick-pockets, flowers, animals, music, and some of the best gelato you can could ever eat (the Spanish totally do it better then the Italians). We got slightly lost at one point, but I now believe Barcelona is the BEST city to EVER get lost in. Walking through the back streets pretending to be locals, saying "Hola" to anyone who catches my eye. We stumbled upon juice stalls, cafes, boutiques and an array of bars. It has only been a few hours (a delirious and tiresome few hours), but I am already in love with this city. It feels like I always imagined Barcelona would. 

Some chill horse to welcome us to the airport.

Hotel Room!!!

Cruising.

Not even lost yet!

Seriously beautiful :)

Amazing juice bar! (Lola and Scarlett)

THE ZOO!!!

I LOVE THE ZOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Im clearly a penguin.

I loved the penguins!

And they clearly loved me!

Chilling with my home-boy. We both wore stripes today. 

This was so precious. This grandfather was telling the children a story. I cant remember what about exactly, something to do with the tigers boyfriend. Such a sweet moment!

With the Meerkats :) 

At the end :)

Platform 9 3/4

I was rather un-impressed by the state of platform 9 3/4. Firstly, some jerk has ripped part of the '4' off. Secondly, whoever made it printed it onto plastic, clearly not a propper wall. But its all ok, we still made it through to the other side. But we went to the zoo, not too Hogwarts.

Better change into our robes, I expect we will be arriving soon.

Hyde Park!

Visited Hyde park today with the wonderful Emily. As we were passing through we took a few photos... I simple love hide park, and still have much of it left to explore!

Tower?

Got slightly bored whilst setting up for something after a fireside. Not gonna lie, I was pretty impressed with myself.

Definetely a future archhitect!

Cardboard Box

In London they have something called a "Box room". A Room for those  people out their with not much stuff. Built mainly for those who are new too the city, or only passing through for a few months. I only had one suitcase, and still not enough room. The gap down the side of my bed was so small I had to side-shuffle down it. If I tried to stretch out my arms, I couldn't. Getting dressed and brushing my hair was always fun, and always ended up in bruises! All hell would break loose when I had a friend over! But despite it practically being a cardboard box... It was still MY cardboard box, and somewhere to call 'home' for a short time.

To the Museum!

Spent the day with some friends and headed to the London Museum. Strangely the whole day I felt as though I was on drugs, and couldn't focus.... So I didn't pay tooo much attention to everything! But it was still fun, and I have plans to go back soon and sus it out properly!

Elevator Love!

Who knew elevators could be so much fun?!?! Seriously.

Banoffee Waffle

Lindsay was the first friend I made in London. I stayed in her flat the weekend I arrived. She introduced me to many people and many things. She also introduced me too these. No words can describe how fatty and delicious these are. I love that sugary goodness.

Farewell..

Eva is my wonderful Spanish friend from work. I work at Starbucks for anyone who doesn't know... You learn to love it.. Anyways, Eva is amazing! Always so much fun. always in a good mood. I was sad too see her leave. English is obviously her second language, we had plenty of fun as I tried to correct her English, and she tried to teach me Spanish. Ill always remember the time when we were discussing the new breakfast menu and she looked at me, with the most sincere and confused look on her face, she whispered, "excuse me, what are oats"
Sadly, I didnt really know what they were either. Except they were delicious.

Oh Princess

Went to the "Princess Diana Memorial" today with some friends after church. We found a nice patch of grass where we could sit in the sun, hear the rushing water, and have a picnic. This is my new favourite place in London. The design was by Kathryn Gustafson an amazing landscape architect.  One side is a "slow, rock and roll, sensuous piece," ending in a calm pool, while the other side is an "effervescent brook" cascading down. Simply beautiful. Its a piece of art you can connect with. If its not to chilly, you can take off your shoes and walk through the water. Many kids ran around through the different obstacles.

Simple Joys...

We spent over an hour making a million wishes.. It was well worth it. Everyone of mine has come true. Happiness can come so simply sometimes. I remember as a child on my way to school, their was a bunch of these on the way and everyday I would make a new wish. Happy Days Indeed.

      

      

Playing Logic

This amazing chess board was on our way home every day. It was lots of funsies. I totally won, as you can see in this picture. Laura did not have an epic comeback at all...... 

We also made a friend. A Winged cat. No seriously, it had wings. The photo doesn't give it justice. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? Double Rainbow...

NEUSCHWANSTEIN!!!

We went to the actual sleeping beauty castle. NEUSCHWANSTEIN. Its only fun to say when you shout it. It was legit. As you all know I'm from Aussie land. We don't have castles. Castles are things you see on TV, or in Disney Movies. This was seriously incredible. Now where's my prince run off too..

The Climb

Feeling adventurous on this side of the world, we decided to try and find some "arena type thing" hidden in the woods. The directions we were given failed. The path also failed. So we made a new one... We climbed this HUGE mountain (it really was huge). Made it to the top with lots of sticks, leaves, and the occasional bug stuck around my shoes. It was well worth it with an incredible sight and the calm, soft feelings, only a forest on a beautiful day can bring. Ahhh the serenity!!!

The most attractive hikers you will ever see.

The incredible view.

Beautiful time of day.

Heidelberg

Not long after arriving in London, I packed my bags and headed to Heidelberg. I was lucky to have one of my closest friends living in Europe, only an hour or two away by plane! This was my first European experience. Loved every second of it. Its incredible witnessing a completely different culture, a whole new way of life, a whole new language! Lucky for me, Laura speaks German. Unlucky for me, we never found chicken schnitzels.