This will be a brief one.

It's Friday night. TGIF (Thank God IT's Friday) drinks are on and they happen to be in the area that I've been sitting in working all this week. So heaps of people chatting, eating and drinking all around me. Bit distracting.

Easter was lovely. Went down to London to visit Tina. Thanks again to Tina and George for putting me up.

Tina treated me to coffee and cake in Leicester Square where all the big movie premiers are usually staged.

We bought cheap tickets to see 'Who's Life is it Anyway?' a play staring Kim Cottrell (from Sex in the City). It was surprisingly quite good! It was a comedy drama and I would recommend seeing it for £24.

So we saw that Saturday night which was good. We wandered into a Waitrose (better quality super market) on Sat afternoon where I found Brioche!!!!!! (French sweet bread). I was very impressed. There is only one Waitrose near Birmingham. Just outside on the border in Solihull. (quick note I'm getting quite acquainted with the geography of Birmingham and England, so much so that I sometime show the locals where to go). :)

Sunday I tried to find the shoreditch markets that Harry had taken us to on my first weekend here. Unsuccessfully as there were a great many street markets that crowded my view. Plus halfway there I found out the clocks went forward and that I was actually an hour off where I thought I was.

Subsequently I had little time there and was a little late for a midday party at a friend's house.
I went to Harry's friend's (Sarah) high tea party and met an ecclectic range of people from their church. It was lovely and very enjoyable. Food, music and company were all very good.

Afterwards we all went to their church in Shoreditch (or thereabouts). It was a lovely old church were James Parkinson (founder of Parkinson's disease) used to patron. It's in the middle of being refurbished and newly established parish.

Afterwards I headed home to change and go to a Salsa all nighter party in Kings Cross (not as bad as Sydney's Kings Cross). I met the people I had first met in Sweden the weekend before. It was good to see them and met more people. I only stayed to 11:30 so I could catch the last tube home.

Monday we went to Bath. George had been before but it was Tina and my first time. We had lovely weather with the sun out. It was just magnificent. A little cold while we saw the sights on the top floor of the open top bus tour. Managed to get it cheap at £5 each. well worth it.

We visited the ROman Baths which were impressive. Fortunately the audio guides you could stop and fast forward at any point. It was a little dry and speculative on many things (much like Stratford Upon Avon) but did not detract from the beauty and historic meaning of the baths.

We wandered around more up to the Circus and popped into some shops. Found a Waitrose from which I duly bought some groceries and more brioche to take back to Birmingham.

So this week has been rather uneventful. Had a few friends over on Wednesday night as the football (soccer) was on. England vs Azer Bahrain (or something like that). England won and it was an exciting game to watch.

Tonight I fly to Paris for the weekend to rendez-vous with Sam and Cindy (Ness' friend).
I will be going to the Louvre on Sunday as it's the 1st Sunday of the month and free. Not sure what else i will be doing, probably enjoying the city (nothing too touristy). Hopefully get to a few bars and see the nightlife. I'm staying in the latin quarter which is a prime and nice area to stay, just behind the Les Invalides (where Napoleon's ashes are kept in a magnificent sarcophagus), Rodin museum/gardens and Musee D'orsay (home to the french impressionists). A few blocks from St Germain De Pres (for those who have heard of it).