So... last Thursday I moved to Farnham, Dorset to start a new job. Due to school holidays I was looking at being unemployed for 6 weeks so I thought that I had better make a plan pretty sharpish. So I am now working at a pub called the Museum Inn in this tiny villiage in Dorset. Luckily its pretty close to where my aunt lives, so I can visit her on my days off. Other than that it isn't too far from Bournemouth which is where Steve Wilsher is living so I will hopefully see him next week or the week after.

I live in this really cute cottage which is next to the pub/restaurant with two other people that work at the pub. Will is a bar tender and is an english guy who is also an aspiring actor, and Clare is from Rhodes (believe it or not) two years above me and she is just travelling around as well. Almost all the people that work with me are pretty young and live in the area and so far they have all been really friendly, so it's good. I ma happy with it at the moment but I probably won't have the patience to stay longer than 3 months, but we'll see how it goes.

The weather here is crazy hot at the moment. Yesterday was the hottest day in recorded English history, 36.5 degrees and I spent 3 hours of my day on a bus as my cousin and I decided to go to Bath for the day. But it was really cool, went to see the Roman baths, and again did the touristy thing taking lots of photos:)

Hope you are all well and having a grand holiday. Miss you all madly!!!!!!!!!!!

PS photos will come once I overcome my technology difficulties:)

Hi all

i was hoping to be able to post some photos of France, but due to technology difficulties this will not be possible at present so I thought some written news would be better than nothing.

So my 5 days in Bordeaux was grand. Stayed at Ade's folks house which is about 20 mins outside Bordeaux and absolutly beautiful. We went and spent the night at her boyfrinds house which is in Cap Ferret which is incredible. It's on the coast and the weather was fantastic. While I was there it was Ade's dads 60th party which they had at their house. About 150 people and most stayed until the following night, so there was a huge crowd over the whole weekend. On the sunday we all went to this chateau where they make wine, and we were given a tour and shown how the wine was made and stored etc. Then got to taste some so it was a great experience. On the way home Ad also took me past two other chateaus. These places are incredible so I took tons of photos, must have looked painfully touristy:(

So on the day of the football final there was still a huge crowd at ade's, so a big screen was set up and it was very festive. they weren't even that bleak when France lost, thank goodness.

Other than that ade took to me to this gorgeous place by the sea where we had drinks and supper while the sun was setting, felt like I was in a movie. Totally beautiful an surreal to be with her after over 3 years, but incredible to know that some things never change. I realised that there will always be those people in life that you can step into synch with as if you had seen them the day before.

Oh and also the tour de france was leaving from Bordeaux the day I left so me, ad and maxu (ade's brother) went to find them. it was really cool, but we waited for about 45 mins and they went past so quickly they were gone in a few seconds. but so worth it.

so a really fantastic time. the shockingness of my french was seriously highlighted and was pretty wierd (but cool) being the foreigner that no one could really communicate with. so conversations were pretty strained but all ade's friends tried really hard and we had a good party.