Monday 9th March 2015 (UK) - Arrived at Heathrow Airport and caught the tube to Russell Square, where we have been staying at the Tavistock Hotel. The hotel looks like it was last updated in the 1980's, with lots of wood panelling accompanied by dark green and red furnishings. We receive a complimentary dinner at the adjoining wine bar. The food, while reasonably conventional in its ingredients, is unlike anything we have ever experienced while "eating out" - very basic presentation and very basic taste. The highlight was the dessert, with a slice of apple pie and something that can only be described as a rectangular slab of ice cream - which has clearly been freshly unwrapped from its individual serve plastic packaging.
Tuesday 10th March 2015 - Head off on the tube to take in several tourist hot spots, strolling along the River Thames past Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and to Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park. We also spent 2 hours at Barclay's setting up our UK bank accounts.
Wednesday 11th March 2015 - Brendan meets with 2 recruitment agencies, the first agency is a specialist in real estate recruitment and although they don't have anything right now that is suitable, throws out the suggestion of joining them to work in recruitment. Following on from this, we head over to Knightsbridge to visit the renowned Harrods department store. It is very apparent from the homes and cars surrounding the area that this is an affluent area, highlights including several Rolls Royce's and Lamborghini's, plus countless BMW's, Audi's, Range Rover's as well as a Mercedes completely covered in Swarovski crystals.
We finish the day heading to Clapham, where we have been told lots of Aussie's live, to go "Speed Flatmating". There, people are given pink stickers if they are looking for a room, and white stickers if they have a room available. There were probably close to 100 people there, but only a handful of people who had white stickers. We exchange details with a few people, but aren't confident that anything will come of it - we will wait and see. From there, we head back to Russell Square where we meet up at a nearby pub with a few of the people from our Contiki group.
Thursday 12th March 2015 - Roslyn meets with 2 recruitment agencies. The first appointment goes well and by the end of the day, she has already got an appointment lined up with a potential employer the next day (Friday). Despite Brendan having met with them the day before, the 2nd agency suggests that because she isn't ready to work for another few weeks, they don't have anything at this time. Strangely enough, Brendan hears back from this same agency and has an interview lined up with an employer tomorrow (Friday).
We are also using the hashtags #BPRPeurotrip and #BrenAndRosDoLondon on Instagram.
Brendan & Ros
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