so many ppl visiting!

Ivan's mother and brother, Fabi have come all the way from Malaga to pay us a surprise visit, and such a surprise it is! I was woken up rudely at an ungodly hour of 1130am (hehe) and was told to clean up the room because we're expecting visitors! and yeah, the visitors were already in Victoria station en route to Brixton (i.e. 3 tube stops away) and not back in Spain...

and yeah, it was quite an effort indeed considering our room is in a perpetual state of mess. So we hauled everything into our closet and gave a half-hearted scrub to the floor and declared it ready for inspection.

All's well and approved of...

for the past few days we've been doing lotsa sightseeings and savoring Mercedes' incredible spanish cooking, and wont i miss them when they leave tomorrow?

Callie is coming next week and im looking forward to catching all time favorite musical 'Wicked' with her...

life's good...

25 degrees today! that's as warm as KL!

it wouldnt do the good weather any justice if we didnt at least spend few hours out in the sun, and really, with the erratic london weather, you dont wanna take it for granted, so out to the park we went...

and gosh, if that's not what life is about, i dont know what is, lying on the grass with beers within reach, and our macbook tuned in to our kinda music, and logged on to the network so that you're still with the world although you feel as if you're not...it's pure relaxation...cant get any less complicated than that...

Life isnt about dining out at Mayfair and getting a £200 an hour massage, it isnt about earning a 5 figure salary and spending holidays in Cancun, it could be as cheap as getting just Stella and Kebab and nothing else, it isnt that hard to figure out if you get right down to it. Simplicity.

Or maybe it's just simply because it's summer...

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It's been a month since i got back, and ive long settled down to the mundane life again. I'm not complaining really, i needed the rest and now im getting it, i have all the time in the world to do my own thing, to read my books and to hangout with all the friends here.

The weather is also getting quite promising, apart from the occasional hail shower and the ever-present english storms, we also have been getting a fair bit of sunny spell, and picnic sessions are definitely in order; the temperature has risen and the lush parks are beckoning.

of course London has been buzzling as usual, and the current hots are focused on the London mayoral elections. It has very little to do with me but it's good to see people getting all excited bout it.

Just the other day the Olympic torch relay took place here and we have heaps of Free-tibet protesters on the road, you have no idea how funny it looked when the torch bearer ran by, surrounded by a dozen chinese security guards, anxious to keep the flame from the protesters, who were equipped with water guns!

that's london, people are free to do whatever they want, yeah, even to criticize the queen. Dont see that ever happening back home.

I've bought a flight ticket to Belfast at zero cost. I'm really getting quite good at finding travel deal like this, if i may say so myself. The idea is to visit Ireland and Scotland and then to join Suya on her two-week camping trip in England and Wales, thus a full travel of the UK in a month.

Time is running out and i have a million places to be at the same time, i wanna go back to germany and spain and i also want to explore scandinavia and the baltic countries.

will have to start prioritizing from now on...