Zorfling in London

So I didn’t post about my birthday, so I thought I’d use the Friday photo to show my work party.

My workmates really got into the Aussie theme and all donned homemade koala masks as well as had a couple of Aussie cork hats. Then we headed out to the Walkabout Aussie pub!

And on the weekend, we had our annual Fiesta Havana Fulham Salsa picnic in the park! We headed to Hyde Park and braved the weather (which held out as overcast but dry) for a go on the pedal boats in the Serpentine (never again, my legs are too long!) and then some soccer in the park.

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Oooops, missed it again. Sigh!

Well here it is, some crazy looking weather in this, Summer… *shakes head*

And a cool church just near our place.

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Wow! I actually remembered to do the Friday Photo on a friday!

Interesting aside: Today, July 11 is the day before my birthday, however I was actually born on July 11th in the UK because I was born at 8:32am on July 12th in Australia (which is 11:32pm July 11th in the UK!)

Anyway, enough of that, we’re here for pics!

Sunset over the Thames at Putney Bridge

Open air office in St James’s Park. It was only for 2 days unfortunately.

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So Saturday saw the return of a favourite on the Summer Salsa calendar, the Carnival de Cuba.

Summer in London means festival time with a number of festivals ranging from music, to dance, to theatre. And for salsa it means the Carnival de Cuba and in August, the Colombian Fesitval (Carnival del Pueblo).

So a group of us from Havana headed down again for this year’s carnival and had a great time. They’d moved to the southern end of Southwark park, so this year had a lot more space for the stage and the cuban/carribean stalls with everything from food, to crafts, to a drum workshop and an area for hula hoops!

So we had a great time in the London sunshine (thankfully no rain this year) sitting listening to the music, dancing and watching the shows. As well as sampling the cuban food (hot hot hot!)

After heading home to recoup, a few of us headed back out to the official carnival after party at Club Colosseum in Vauxhall for a 5 room, 6 hour salsa spectacular.

I stayed til 3am when I ran out of steam and headed home to bed, but had a great night and a great day overall!

For more pictures, click one of these or here…

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Ok… so it’s a little late again! Never mind…

MI6 (left), home of British Secret Service (and Bond… James Bond) and St George Wharf apartments (right)
I walk across this bridge and past these every day, and only just realised that building is MI6! Explains the overbearing look and police that are always outside it.

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I’m VERY bad at this I can see…

Excuse is conjunctivitis keeping me down, but enough of that, here are some belated Friday photos!

Dave (my boss) in the pub

Mother Bar on Friday night with the lads

Saidul with a random at Mother Bar

Roehampton Lane near our place

Vauxhall Station – my work train station

Bibi at Canary Wharf

The conjunctivitis monster… complete with yellow eye dye (from the hospital to make sure I hadn’t scratched it)

Barnes Station – our local train station

Bibi in a top hat (at Dave’s birthday celebrations at Detroit bar in Covent Garden)

The statue/sign thing in the middle of a roundabout in Wandsworth

Well there you have it, a week in pictures 😀

Til next time…

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Soooo.. after 4 posts I got lazy and forgot to post for a week..

And what a week it was.

Tuesday saw me down with conjunctivitis (which I might add, is still around and getting worse).

Wednesday I dragged myself out of bed and down to work, only to find our building on fire. It seems the big diesel generator that runs our air conditioning caught alight (not surprising after the number of overheats we’ve had of late) Seems it caught alight at about 8:50am, just in time for most of us to arrive to a smoking building. After a quick meeting in the nearby cafe, headed home to do what we could. Luckily, nothing was burnt (apart from the generator obviously) so back to work Thursday without delay.

Friday, I got my new phone! It’s a Nokia N82 and it’s fantastic! It’s got a 5mega pixel camera with real xenon flash and GPS!! So I’ve been playing with that quite a lot. Friday night we went out on the town and ended up in Shoreditch, and at 3am my trusty new phone cum GPS lead me home (via a kebab shop).

Excellent work!

Pictures to come…

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Hmmmm, yes well today I’m home sick because this morning I woke up with conjunctivitis and couldn’t open my eyes.

So that, combined with my cold and my hayfever makes me a dull boy 🙁

On an interesting note, I wasn’t aware that you could buy antibiotics over the counter from a pharmacy… well for conjunctivitis you can. Nothing else.. just this. So Optrex for Infected Eyes, hoorah!

Back to bed I guess…

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So Friday night marked Amanda’s (of Amanda and Erik salsa fame!) last night at Fiesta Havana before she heads home to Kuala Lumpur.

We started the night at Fiesta Havana in Fulham for a few last dances before making a mad dash across town to Tiger Tiger in Piccadilly Circus to try and beat the £10 cover.. (tried and failed, but jumped the queue on guest list so not all bad).

We were heading to Tiger Tiger to meet up with not 1 but 3 other parties (Mariella’s birthday, Clinton’s leaving and Nathan’s birthday) so we had quite a good crew there.

Good time was had by all (except Beebs who kept getting hit on poor thing).

That’s all for now..

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So I figured a nice recurring feature would be to have a photo of my life and travels in London and Europe.

So here it is, the first Friday Photo!

This is a bit of an old one, but how can I start a photo feature of life in London without going the obvious?
I give you, Big Ben (with black cab), Red Bus (old Routemaster), Red Postbox and Tower Bridge!

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