yesterday was a perfect sort of day...

train tracks at north sheen

(the only place we get free train rides from, the overland near holly's)

in front of windsor castle with the flag up!
pretty swans on the thames in windsor
queens guard
sunset in the city shakespeare globe theatre

yesterday we woke up to the most beautiful day either of us have ever experienced in london. as it's coming into autumn the leaves are changing and the weather is a bit cooler. yesterday there wasn't a cloud in the sky, the sun was shining, it was warm but a tiny cool breeze so it wasn't muggy. we decided to NOT spend it sitting in front of the computer getting frustrated about no good places to live.

we got outside and headed to windsor by train. lachie's been to windsor before but i never had and finally got to see what he always talks about. it's BEAUTIFUL there. the weather helping this perspective. it was a tiny bit more exciting with the flag up on the flag pole, meaning that the queen was in residence!
we spent most of the day there and then headed into town to view a RANDOM art show (ie.videos of a guy with a micro phone in his mouth lying next to a speaker, or a dark room with lots of plants, a black light and bleep, boing ding noises and the artist telling us to walk barefeet and hear the plants talking to us....hmmm)
but after that the best part of the day we went to the shakespeare globe theatre to see 'anthony and cleopatra'. another thing to add to your lists if you've never been. this place is excellent as they have reproduced the original shakespeare theatre style with the open roof and wooden stalls and floors and people standing in the front and the actors wearing amazing traditional costumes and people playing traditional musical instruments and singing traditional songs and them all doing a traditional dancing at the end. BRILLIANT!
today, friday, we are packing up and heading to 'new forest' for the weekend camping with all our friends. we are so excited to be using our lovely new/used tents that we found! one of our friends nick is having his birthday so it will be a party in the forest and celebrating the equinox. it is nice that people are really aware of the seasons here. more when we get back, ciao!