London, England
3:32 PM
Hi all
Been a little while since I last posted but anyway, I'm back in Germany and alive with World Cup Fever. Last week, I went to a friendly game of Australia v Lichtenstein which was very cool, especially given we won 3-1. There were a surprising amount of Aussies there which was really cool to see as well.
Anyway, this weekend I headed to Merry 'Ol England on Friday night where I landed at Standsted (not recommended) and travelled for like an hour and a bit to get to my hotel. After a train and two tubes, I finally arrived. Didn't do anything that night but went to bed. Saturday I got up and took a tube to Westminster where I saw Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. I then walked accross the Thames and went to the London Eye. A 30 min "flight" afforded great views of London and the perfect weather I had (28 degrees) made visibility excellent.
I next walked to the Tower Bridge, all the way along the Thames which took me a little while. I got to see the bridge "draw" as a yatch sailed under and it had to raise. Very cool. I then headed to London Tower and saw the all the military relics as well as the crown jewels. Very impressive. I wandered around a bit more before heading to East Putney to meet a good family friend for the England game. We headed to her friends place where I met a whole pile of Aussies and enjoyed the game, a few bevvies and finished off with a BBQ.
Saturday night I was meant to go out with them, but by the time we went to go out, it was 10:30 and I was still in shorts. It took me about 35mins to get back to the hotel and at that point, i couldn't be bothered going back to meet them. Sunday I went for a walk through Hyde Park to Park Lane, down Piccadilly and headed for Buckingham Palace. I waited around to see the changing of the guard. Again, it was very good weather (31 this time) which made waiting in the sun very hot. What made it worth while was the queens' royal guards music unit playing the Abba megamix. Quite amusing.
After Buckingham, I left and went to Harrods for a spot of shopping. Next I headed out to Lords Cricket Ground to visit the home of Cricket. The rest of the day, I just wandered around and checked out London in general, a few shops, etc and not much else. Went and had dinner in Kensington near my hotel and then went to bed. I had to get up at 4:45am London time in order to get accross town to my train station to get back to Standsted for an 8am Monday flight. Not pretty.
Anyway, that's about all. Australia had a BIG win against Japan yesterday in an exciting 3-1 win. Photos will be a little slow as I no longer have internet at the hotel.
Ciao!
Dave
Been a little while since I last posted but anyway, I'm back in Germany and alive with World Cup Fever. Last week, I went to a friendly game of Australia v Lichtenstein which was very cool, especially given we won 3-1. There were a surprising amount of Aussies there which was really cool to see as well.
Anyway, this weekend I headed to Merry 'Ol England on Friday night where I landed at Standsted (not recommended) and travelled for like an hour and a bit to get to my hotel. After a train and two tubes, I finally arrived. Didn't do anything that night but went to bed. Saturday I got up and took a tube to Westminster where I saw Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. I then walked accross the Thames and went to the London Eye. A 30 min "flight" afforded great views of London and the perfect weather I had (28 degrees) made visibility excellent.
I next walked to the Tower Bridge, all the way along the Thames which took me a little while. I got to see the bridge "draw" as a yatch sailed under and it had to raise. Very cool. I then headed to London Tower and saw the all the military relics as well as the crown jewels. Very impressive. I wandered around a bit more before heading to East Putney to meet a good family friend for the England game. We headed to her friends place where I met a whole pile of Aussies and enjoyed the game, a few bevvies and finished off with a BBQ.
Saturday night I was meant to go out with them, but by the time we went to go out, it was 10:30 and I was still in shorts. It took me about 35mins to get back to the hotel and at that point, i couldn't be bothered going back to meet them. Sunday I went for a walk through Hyde Park to Park Lane, down Piccadilly and headed for Buckingham Palace. I waited around to see the changing of the guard. Again, it was very good weather (31 this time) which made waiting in the sun very hot. What made it worth while was the queens' royal guards music unit playing the Abba megamix. Quite amusing.
After Buckingham, I left and went to Harrods for a spot of shopping. Next I headed out to Lords Cricket Ground to visit the home of Cricket. The rest of the day, I just wandered around and checked out London in general, a few shops, etc and not much else. Went and had dinner in Kensington near my hotel and then went to bed. I had to get up at 4:45am London time in order to get accross town to my train station to get back to Standsted for an 8am Monday flight. Not pretty.
Anyway, that's about all. Australia had a BIG win against Japan yesterday in an exciting 3-1 win. Photos will be a little slow as I no longer have internet at the hotel.
Ciao!
Dave
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