Bournemouth mis-adventures

Well, now we are in England. Overall - the trip from Munich to Bournemouth could definitely have been better. It was raining in Munich and we had all of our luggage with us so we spent most of Tuesday in the airport killing time until our plane left. Then when we arrived in London we had to waste an additional four hours (between midnight and 4am) at the Stansted airport until we could get a bus to Bournemouth.

But we got into Bournemouth Wednesday morning, just fine, around 9:30am and spent the day here. We left our luggage at the bus/train depot and immediately set off to look for a new flat. Unfortunately things work a little differently in the UK and it takes a minimum of one week to secure a flat. Still, we were able to look at a number of places and we've started the process of renting one. Hopefully we can be in by the end of the month.

In contrast, something that is set up much better in the UK is the mobile phone system. It only took us about ten mintues and £30 to get a cell phone. It's on a pay as you go account, but all incoming calls are free. Even better, the entirety of the UK counts as local area, so we can receive calls for Canada with no charge to us, regardless of where we are over here. So call us.

The phone was easily the highlight of Wednesday, though. When we returned to the bus/train station to retrieve our luggage yesterday, it had already closed. Apparently we misunderstood, and missed closing by just 20 minutes.

So, with only the clothes we were wearing (and had been since we left for the airport in Munich Tuesday morning) we had to go check into a hostel. It was an alright place, but we had to share a room with two messy girls from the Chech Republic.

Now it's Thursday morning, and we're going to go visit John (Troë's cousin) in Teignmouth for a few days. We're sure that today will be a much better day.