Long time no write.

Well its been a while but compared to the earlier parts of my travels I haven't been doing very much.

After leaving Cambridge, I went back to Norwich for a couple of days and then bussed it straight to London, skipping out Mulden because of a death in the family of whom I was going to stay with. I was going to stay with Anna in London again but I got a call from her a couple of days before I left saying she was away for the week and couldn't house me. Instead I called up a second cousin of mine; George who lives close to London with his girlfriend Louise. They were kind enough to take me in with a days notice so I stayed with them for a couple of nights. Unfortunately they couldn't have me on friday night so I left in the afternoon and spent the next four hours wandering around London with my pack trying to find somewhere to stay as all the hostels seemed to be booked out for the night. Eventually, after a lot of walking around and calling everyone I knew in london, with no success I found a hostel near St Pauls and spent the night there.
In the morning I left the hostel and as I was walking towards the tube noticed there were a lot of people milling around, including police etc. It turns out the Lord Mayors Parade was on so I stopped to watch. The parade included lots of horses and carriages, defence force companies and men holding spears and wearing tight pants. It was overall really cool, being very different from the parades Ive seen before (the christmas pageant for example).
After staying with Ryan for the night and seeing everyone at Wormholt, I caught a train to Purley (a suburb near london) where another of mums cousins lived; Margret and Richard. That night they had a late '5th of November' party (The 5th of November or Bonfire Night is a highly celebrated night in the UK) with all their children and grandchildren. Many fireworks were set off and quite a bit of wine consumed, it was good fun.
I spent the next few days with them and took a walk around the commons behind their house. Mostly just fields but there were a few wooded areas, I had a couple of hour walk and grabbed a cache while i was in the area.
After leaving Margret and Richard's I spent one more night in London and went to see the one and only Avenue Q Musical in the West End with Lara (a friend from Contiki). Avenue Q was absolutely AWESOME! If you get a chance to see it I cannot recommend it enough.

Anyway the next day I took a bus back down to Devon where Im staying with my aunt and uncle again. On saturday, yet another of mums cousins; Wendy and Alan took me to Dartmoor for a couple of walks around the torrs. I cant get enough of the moors, they are fantastic and its a great feeling to climb to the top of the rocky torrs and have a look around. Everytime I walk around a moor I always think: "This would be a fantastic place for wide games". Theres so many little dips etc to hide in, it would be great fun!

Well that's pretty much all that's been happening in the past couple of weeks, Im definitely slowing down a bit. This next statement may cause some of you to want to kill me but I am getting a bit sick of travelling. After almost 4 months Im looking forward to getting to Canada where Ill have a place I can basically call home and where I wont have to live out of my pack. Ah well, a week today and Ill be on the plane to Toronto, then its a couple of days there while i get my Social Insurance Number (ie Tax File equivalent) processed, a quick trip to see Niagra Falls, then a brief flight to Calgary and a bus to Golden. Almost there: bring on the snow!

Till next time, enjoy the summer.