Days 2-4

Day 2 - A sleep in was in order after the long trip, but we did manage a look round the local suburb of Kilburn, up Kilburn High Street, a collection of pound stores (i.e. $2 shop), pubs and bookies being the standard, the highlight of the walk being some bloke offering me a laptop on the street...welcome to the big smoke.

I also took in the Lords Tour (that's Lords cricket ground for the ignorant). It was a great tour of the whole place including the vistors dressing room, the long room (where all the members drink gin), the stands and the monstrosity at the end of the ground that is the media centre. Well worth the 8 bucks. Whilst I was doing this Ruth wandered up to Regent's Park, I also missed my first opportunity for the famous person photo too Joe, as Ruth was waiting for me outside Lords, Warnie walked past not once but twice, but she didn't have the camera and all he wanted was her phone number!

Later that night me, Ruth, AD and Rach flew to our Greek Island, Zakynthos, via Athens, arriving at the Kouros villa at 7am Greece time. The worst thing about this part of the day was my first experience of an English ale at the airport, served at room temperature it is not an experience I will be repeating.

Day 3 - The first part of the day consisted of flying to the island, we got to our villa and it was a perfect day in Zakynthos, so what better to do than to go have a sleep. After we woke up in the avo the rest of the day consisted of sleeping/drinking/swimming/reading by the villa pool. Now this is a holiday...Though me and AD did manage to make it to the shop to pick up a crate of Mythos ("Greek for beer") to keep us hydrated. With the temperatures hitting the 30's it's important to keep hydrated.

We also started busting out our Greek language skills with the locals too, they were sometimes impressed and many times amused/confused as to what we were saying. My unbiased opinion is that my speedos seem very popular amongst the toursits and locals alike.

Day 4 - After rising late morning in accordance with Greek tradition, we went for a walk to Kaminia beach, it is a pretty sweet set up at these beaches with beach bars and sun loungers and umbrellas for the punters to use, so we hung here all day lapping up the sun and getting sunburnt on top of yesterdays sunburn. Whilst the beach as fairly skinny and rocky, the Med was warm as, as for the Mythos it was nice and cold. The day concluded with more Mythos getting drunk, sitting on the villa deck (with primo views of the Med), talking shit into the early hours.

Oh yeah some terrorists got busted in London too, apparently targeting London to US flights (us on the 30th...) hopefully that means lots of people will cancel flights and we can stretch out on the empty seats. Anyways we don't see any point in worrying about it to be honest.