London!

Hello all,
The Turkish authorities were after me so we had to leave the country and let the heat cool down. What better place to blend in with the crowd than Jolly olde England. I'm sure they're not still sore about the revolution or the tea party.

One of Rana's friends, Camille is living there so we were quite lucky to stay with her. We arrived there hungry and a little lost but full of hope! We took the Piccadilly line, which is funny by itself, from Heathrow towards Cockfosters!

We arrived and Camille and her lovely boyfriend Dafty greeted us at the door. The rest of the day was spent catching up and drinking coffee. The four of us took a nice walk around their local park. Funny how the sun went down at 4pm. I forgot how far north London was from Istanbul.

Then we headed to the Horniman at Hay's so we could say we'd been there. You just don't get bars named like this is Istanbul. Pictured here are Rana and Camille basking in its glory. After a long hiatus from good beer it was wonderful to have a pint again! Wee. Anyhoo the night digressed until Dafty and I were drinking cider...





This is what happens...
On the way home we saw some Christmas cheer. The next night we decided to walk around Covent Garden. It was spectacular and we ate yummy pasties which are England's on the go, buttery snack. Here are the lovely red lights at CG. Then we walked by St. Paul's Catherdal and popped inside for a look. Outside we ran into a bunch of animals. They looked like Mascots so Camille was excited to go pose with one. Pictured here. We found out later that they were a fetish club called London Furs that likes to dress up like this and do god knows what. I was thinking at that point that it had been a few hours since I last had drunk something. Luckily there was one of these. Which way is that shop again?










Finally we found our way home but not before we found the Muffin man, the muffin man, the one who lives on ... Well you probably can't tell but this is a picture of Drury Lane!
Anyway we enjoyed the final day there relaxing and watching british TV. We then hopped a flight back to Istanbul saddened to leave the land of yummy beer and comically named pubs. Thanks for the fun London and thanks Camille and Dafty.

Gettin´ Settled in Sevilla

Hey here we are chilling in the South of Spain.
Make sure you get you shopping done before 2 or else you´ll have to wait until 6. Siessta is extremely long here and has made for some foodless afternoons but we´ve managed. Rana is getting settled in Dancing Flamenco every day.

The first night we got here we met our Home stay owner a man named Antonio or we thought that was his name. He introduced himself as Pollo, Spanish for Chicken. Hummm. Ok that´s his name we thought. He treated us to a nice dinner of Salad and fried zucchini or however you spell that. We then went out on the town to get some drinks while pollo stayed at home and smoked the gang. Did I mention he has dred locks. anyway he has been most helpful and a fun living companion. The second night Rana and I went to a flamenco performance and saw her friend play violin. He was amazing and we snuck back stage pretending to be his family after the show. We´re due to see him again this weekend.
We´ve been meeting a lot of amazing people here. A guitarist at Rana´s School worked on Pocahontas for Disney. He is a cool LA animator type. Also there are students and cool people from all over the world.
Ok well that´s all for today...they're closing the library on me again.
Love to you all.