Oh, I dunno. Hanging out I suppose?

One can't help but notice that I have been absent from my blog for a litte while, is this the beginning of the end? The point where I forget about my blog and leave it to obscurity?

Hopefully not! I think it's more likely though that I have not left Tartu since I got back from the Netherlands so I assumed that nobody would want to hear about my doing nothing. But I guess most of you have lives far more boring than mine, and who I am I to keep you without your only source of entertainment?

Narcissism aside, I did actually leave Tartu once! Last Sunday in fact. After an overall lazy day in my room, at about 2:30pm I casually strolled to the bathroom to find roommate Mark Lemon frantically getting ready to leave to pick up a guitar he'd just bought from the Estonian version of ebay and asked if I wanted to come to Tallinn to get it, so I said yes! We travelled all up 5 hours there and back, and were only in Tallinn for about 2 hours, but overall it was worth it!

Just Mark and his guitar

But I can't say I've done a huge amount since then. I went to a 1920's theme party but didn't feel like dressing up, cheered on a fellow exchange student to Karaoke championship victory and aside from that just did some homework. Possibly my most boring week and a bit to read about, but it's been fun living it!

I've started to get back into the swing of the Eurovision writing now that there is actually some information flowing about and soon I will be really busy trying to balance University, Eurovision and travel, but thats the dream isn't it? If anyone wants to check out my articles; click here.

Thats all really, aside from drinking more than I should there isn't much more that I'm allowed to say, so here's what you all come here for anyway, photos of Horace!

Horace in front of Riga's famous Laima clock and in front of the Heerenveen Windmill

Final thought!

If you want to write a blog about your adventures in Europe, sometimes you should actually do something. Alternatively make a note about them so you can remember what you did and blog about them later.

United Kingdom Super Kawaii Road Trip Desu (Part II)

When we last left you, our brave heroes (Me and Dave) were bravely going where millions of people have gone before (Down a highway from Northern England to Southern England). Lets find out what happened next!

Location: Nottingham
People Met: Georgie, Lorna & Scott
What I Did: *Saw some deer in a park
* Hung out with some of Dave's friends
* Watched Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model (Imogen for the win!)
* Took a nap at Nottingham Uni
* Saw the Robin Hood Statue
* Made fun of UK with Scott from Auckland
* Went to a sweet petting zoo and saw so many goats and ducks, nearly died from cuteness.

Location: Leicester
People Met: Random football fans from Bristol
What I did: * Watched the glorious Bristol City defeat the lame Leicester in Football
* Had lunch at some shitty supermarket place (Morrison's perhaps?)

Location: London
People Met: Will Kerr-Muir & Luke Fisher
What I did: * Lay about with a migraine
* Eat a sandwich
* Catch up with friends; old and new
* Was unable to get access to the queen's tut.

Most memorable moment for each place

Manchester: Being greeted by David Rawlings with a Slovenian flag after a 24 hour flight and jumping straight into the car to go to Scotland.

Glasgow: Being confronted with the owner of a B&B who had a massive love of Australian Culture (well, for Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson at least) and wholeheartedly failing to understand most of what he was trying to say.

York: Discovering that Ryan Forster has developed a hilarious slight Northern English accent. Also meeting fellow ESCDaily.com editor Nathan Waddell for a delicious lunch and a hilarious trip through the Jorvik viking museum.

Nottingham: Definitely the petting zoo. Anyone who hangs out with me at uni knows how I feel about ducks. There were hundreds and I got to feed them. <3 <3 <3

Leicester: Bristol City fans chanting "I wanna go home, I wanna go home, Leicester's a shithole, I wanna go home" followed by Dave's comment: "It's funny 'cause it's true".

London: Lively Eurovision discussion with another fellow ESCDaily.com Editor, Luke Fisher and ending the best roadtrip I've ever been on!

Special thanks of course go to David Rawlings for driving me the several hundred km's around the UK and more importantly for being one of my best friends. Love you David!

Thats it! I'm in Tallinn now and you'll get a full report of my first weekend in my new homeland once I'm settled in to my dorm in Tartu!

Head aega!

Goodbye Australia, Hello United Kingdom!

Greetings from the motherland! Lots of stuff has happened since I left Australia so this post will be a little more summary-esque than deep and meaningful, but considering I've moved to the otherside of the world, that's probably a good thing, so lets get into it.

Location: Coburg, Australia

Staying with: Chris, Jeremy, Ben & Kiera

What I did: Epic going away, super hangover and just hanging out with friends.

Reflection: Was lovely to hang out with close friends before leaving the country for the year!

Location: Melbourne -> Dubai -> Manchester

Staying with: Emirates Airlines

What I did: * Watched 4 movies (My Best Friend's Wedding, Beauty and the Beast, Paul & Hercules) C4 episodes of TV (Glee, How I Met Your Mother, We Can Be Heroes & IT Crowd)

* Flew over 15 countries in 25 hours

* Met four interesting people who I sat near (Mara from Melbourne, Craig from Cambridge, Lynlee a Mezzo-Soprano opera singer slash music teacher at Eltham High School and Fatima a Zairian woman who lives in Manchester who was returning from her pilgramage to Mecca)

* Drank 4 bottles of San Pellegrino

Reflection: I could barely remember my life before getting on the plane as we descended into Manchester

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

People Met: Chris O'Brien, Adam Scott, Andrew Leitch

What I did: *Met Dave at the airport and we drove to Glasgow

* Visited Hadrian's Wall (Wall from thousands of years ago that used to extend across the England/Scotland border)

* Failed to understand most Scottish accents or pronounce place names

* Jet Lag

* Discovered that I forgot to get my PIN set up for my visa.

* Crashed with Chris & Andrew

Location: York, England

People Met: Lyndsey & Ian Megarry, Ryan Forster, Nathan Waddell

What I did: *Played an extensive game of Snog, Marry, Avoid on the way back down from Scotland.

* Visited the gorgeous city of York.

* Discovered the major similarities in housing in the UK.

* Went to the Jorvik Viking Museum (Hilarious feat. Lame)

* Drove to Nottingham

Thats pretty much it for now! I'm in Nottingham for a few days now and then off to London on Wednesday finally arriving in Tallinn on Friday, so stay tuned for pictures and further reflection later!