Today I finally entered my brand new room. It's in Acton town. The room is not bad. It is quite spacious with a really fast Internet connection, really fast! The guy who manage the house is smart and really helpful: you call him and he fixes things!
These days have been a real nightmare. I travelled with all kind of public transports London can offer, from the underground of course to the buses to the DLR and finally also with the overground! Is there an overground there in London??? Yes there is! I saw most of the areas of London in this research. I think that I found one not so central and not so amazingly well connected with the transports but it's a nice area and on the opposite side of the Olympics games: I think that on that days it will be impossible to travel here. Anyway you see different places and things and you end up adapting your initial perspective to the real world.
So this afternoon I went buy all the dishes, pillows, duvet and all the staff for the house. Because they really don't give you nothing. Now I'm really tired and I just want to sleep. Yawn yawn
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Baby on board
You see a lot of funny strange things on the tube. For example someone like me sitting alone and laughing. I was looking at my name on the receipt and thinking: this guy has really strange way to write the "i". It's more like an "e". Than suddenly I understood: I spelled my name in Italian!!!! But only the vocals! Stupid boy! It was so funny and I was so tired so I laugh to cry.
Anyway the best for today was this woman sitting in front of me. She had a pin with the underground logo and a notice you usually find beside cars: "Baby on board". I staid a little bit astonished in the first place. Than I understood: she was pregnant! Oh she was so amazing :-)
My research for a room is hopefully coming to an end. I won't say anything until I have the house keys but I hope for best, always expecting the worst of course. Tonight I will sleep in this 12 beds shared room. I already met some interesting people but it won't be a pleasant and quiet night...
Anyway the best for today was this woman sitting in front of me. She had a pin with the underground logo and a notice you usually find beside cars: "Baby on board". I staid a little bit astonished in the first place. Than I understood: she was pregnant! Oh she was so amazing :-)
My research for a room is hopefully coming to an end. I won't say anything until I have the house keys but I hope for best, always expecting the worst of course. Tonight I will sleep in this 12 beds shared room. I already met some interesting people but it won't be a pleasant and quiet night...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Bad day
Today has been a really bad day. I should have go to see 3 places in the painful research for a room in London. Each of the people I had an appointment with, texted me that they couldn't make it. Argh! Ok I think that you just need to relax and take it easy, or keep calm as they say.
There are some days like this in life that anything you do works and this is exactly one of that days. So I went back to the hostel had dinner and planned to have some relax. Instead I found this model guy I met this morning that is sharing the room with me. He is from Greece really funny. He showed me also his book: I just can't avoid to think about Zoolander (the film). So I ended up going down to the dinner room with him to do some computer staff and have some English chat. So again looking for a room!
Now I'm really tired and the research is over, at least for today. Tomorrow will be another day. Unfortunately I will need to leave this fantastic Palmers Loundge hostel for another that... oh I don't want to think about this now.
Let's hope to find soon a room and finally have the time to relax a little bit.
There are some days like this in life that anything you do works and this is exactly one of that days. So I went back to the hostel had dinner and planned to have some relax. Instead I found this model guy I met this morning that is sharing the room with me. He is from Greece really funny. He showed me also his book: I just can't avoid to think about Zoolander (the film). So I ended up going down to the dinner room with him to do some computer staff and have some English chat. So again looking for a room!
Now I'm really tired and the research is over, at least for today. Tomorrow will be another day. Unfortunately I will need to leave this fantastic Palmers Loundge hostel for another that... oh I don't want to think about this now.
Let's hope to find soon a room and finally have the time to relax a little bit.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The origin of Love by Mika
I really just can't wait to listen the new Mika album, the 3rd one. There are some unreleased songs on youtube that you can listen to like "You made me" and "Underwater". They are so amazing and really ...oh I have no words to describe that.
I think that an extract from underwater lyric can say everything:
"Cause all I need
Is the love you breathe
put your lips on me
and I can live
under water, under water,
under water!
Under water!"
These are probably two of the songs that there will be on the album but no one can say that apart from the author of course. Anyway the album theme is "love" as Mika said in some interview or on his blog. Hope to find both songs there and really can't wait to listen to the other ones.
Just listen to this song. It's amazing!
I think that an extract from underwater lyric can say everything:
"Cause all I need
Is the love you breathe
put your lips on me
and I can live
under water, under water,
under water!
Under water!"
These are probably two of the songs that there will be on the album but no one can say that apart from the author of course. Anyway the album theme is "love" as Mika said in some interview or on his blog. Hope to find both songs there and really can't wait to listen to the other ones.
Just listen to this song. It's amazing!
Finding a room in London
Yeah, finding a room in London is A PAIN!!!
First you need to find a website to look for the room. In the Internet era there's no better way and probably the only one.
So I subscribed to uk.easyroommate.com. I also paid to be a premier member and see people's phone number. Wasted money! I never had a reply from anyone on the website and really I spent quite a few hours writing messages email sms and whatever. No way.
So I went to gumtree.com as more than one person suggested to me. This is really the way go. You get the latest advertisements inserted directly from the people renting the rooms. Of course you need to read carefully and pay attention because lot of the ads are from agents. I have no idea what can happen to you with an agent but really, I don't want to pay someone to find a room I can find myself. Of course if you are busy and have a job, than it can be helpful.
Anyway I started calling them by phone. No answers! Argh! What the hell they want me to do? I felt kind of disappointed. Then after some try and fail I finally understood: you need to send them an sms! Probably they have really a lot of people calling them and they can't answer all. Probably they are working and can't answer. With text I started getting replies and now I'm starting to see (or viewing as they say) some rooms. Yesterday I went to see a room near Elephant and Castle. Ok not so near depending if you consider 20 minutes walk "near". The house outside and also the area itself wasn't something you call nice. Anyway the flat and the room inside where really nice and also the landlord was really a kind person.
Today I'm going to see some others rooms and then I will decide. Booking an hostel here during the weekends seems something like a mission impossible. If I won't find a room before Thursday, I will sleep in a 15 beds shared room in some touristic area near some crowded touristic place. I really hope to not need to do this!
First you need to find a website to look for the room. In the Internet era there's no better way and probably the only one.
So I subscribed to uk.easyroommate.com. I also paid to be a premier member and see people's phone number. Wasted money! I never had a reply from anyone on the website and really I spent quite a few hours writing messages email sms and whatever. No way.
So I went to gumtree.com as more than one person suggested to me. This is really the way go. You get the latest advertisements inserted directly from the people renting the rooms. Of course you need to read carefully and pay attention because lot of the ads are from agents. I have no idea what can happen to you with an agent but really, I don't want to pay someone to find a room I can find myself. Of course if you are busy and have a job, than it can be helpful.
Anyway I started calling them by phone. No answers! Argh! What the hell they want me to do? I felt kind of disappointed. Then after some try and fail I finally understood: you need to send them an sms! Probably they have really a lot of people calling them and they can't answer all. Probably they are working and can't answer. With text I started getting replies and now I'm starting to see (or viewing as they say) some rooms. Yesterday I went to see a room near Elephant and Castle. Ok not so near depending if you consider 20 minutes walk "near". The house outside and also the area itself wasn't something you call nice. Anyway the flat and the room inside where really nice and also the landlord was really a kind person.
Today I'm going to see some others rooms and then I will decide. Booking an hostel here during the weekends seems something like a mission impossible. If I won't find a room before Thursday, I will sleep in a 15 beds shared room in some touristic area near some crowded touristic place. I really hope to not need to do this!
Saturday, April 21, 2012
London night out
I'm kind of used to weird things. Meaning they happen to me quite often. I really never understood if I'm kind of attracted to them or if they are attracted to me.
Anyway last night I went out with a friend. She is an italian girl so, as all italian girls that go out in the evening, she was dressed like we were going to opera or a gala. Instead we went to this gay bar... she insisted don't ask! It was kind of funny with these people playing karaoke and some of them was drag queens. They didn't want me to sing, they said too late.
After a while we got tired of the place so we went to brick lane. In London you have two choices: spend a lot of money or walk. So we walked a lot! First to find a place and then to go back home. And se had heels of course! After few "try and run away" we finally found this "93 feet east" club. It was nice considering the other places around. The club was free to enter. There was a dance floor. A lot of young people, probably in a school trip. Drinks where a little bit scarse but I can't compare them with other places here. They closed at 1am that is really early for us but not for them. I'll need to shift my behaviour to get used to this.
To close the evening we went eat the tipical brick lane beigel. In italian we would say... "un panin"! It was good but really too cold.
The bus ride back home took really a long long time and it was also really crowded so we were standing for most of the trip.
Now I'm in the hostel. They have this bad change thing so that you are left without a room for 3 hours. It's a little bit of a pain but also an excuse to weak up early and update your blog.
It's time to go back to my holy dicking!
Anyway last night I went out with a friend. She is an italian girl so, as all italian girls that go out in the evening, she was dressed like we were going to opera or a gala. Instead we went to this gay bar... she insisted don't ask! It was kind of funny with these people playing karaoke and some of them was drag queens. They didn't want me to sing, they said too late.
After a while we got tired of the place so we went to brick lane. In London you have two choices: spend a lot of money or walk. So we walked a lot! First to find a place and then to go back home. And se had heels of course! After few "try and run away" we finally found this "93 feet east" club. It was nice considering the other places around. The club was free to enter. There was a dance floor. A lot of young people, probably in a school trip. Drinks where a little bit scarse but I can't compare them with other places here. They closed at 1am that is really early for us but not for them. I'll need to shift my behaviour to get used to this.
To close the evening we went eat the tipical brick lane beigel. In italian we would say... "un panin"! It was good but really too cold.
The bus ride back home took really a long long time and it was also really crowded so we were standing for most of the trip.
Now I'm in the hostel. They have this bad change thing so that you are left without a room for 3 hours. It's a little bit of a pain but also an excuse to weak up early and update your blog.
It's time to go back to my holy dicking!
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Moving to London
Really a lot to say but also really few, if any, ideas about how to write them down.
Now I'm sitting in this really noisy dirty crowded hostel "Number 8". Full of Italians!
I came here for various reasons most of them are still obscure to me, but of course one was to improve my English and in two days I had really few chance to speak it. These London people are really strange. They do all the opposite we are used to, like for example driving on the wrong side (yes wrong!) of the street. But I also discovered that, contrary to what we are actually used to think, they are not so "advanced" as one (me) would expect: it's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seems!
It's just the beginning of course, a first impression.
I would love to write down here more in the few days and week. Writing about the people you leave behind and the new one you meet and all the weird things that will happen to me. Anyway now I'm tired and running out of ideas so fast that it's really time to stop. More to come in the next posts if there will be...
Just one last thing. If you ever come to London don't forget to take with you your bathrobe because here they sell it only during the Christmas holidays... at least this is the explanation the saleswoman gave me for the fact that any shop in London sells them.
Now I'm sitting in this really noisy dirty crowded hostel "Number 8". Full of Italians!
I came here for various reasons most of them are still obscure to me, but of course one was to improve my English and in two days I had really few chance to speak it. These London people are really strange. They do all the opposite we are used to, like for example driving on the wrong side (yes wrong!) of the street. But I also discovered that, contrary to what we are actually used to think, they are not so "advanced" as one (me) would expect: it's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seems!
It's just the beginning of course, a first impression.
I would love to write down here more in the few days and week. Writing about the people you leave behind and the new one you meet and all the weird things that will happen to me. Anyway now I'm tired and running out of ideas so fast that it's really time to stop. More to come in the next posts if there will be...
Just one last thing. If you ever come to London don't forget to take with you your bathrobe because here they sell it only during the Christmas holidays... at least this is the explanation the saleswoman gave me for the fact that any shop in London sells them.
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