London is cool

Trip Start Dec 06, 2005
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Trip End Jun 17, 2006


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Sunday, April 16, 2006

I had around 5 days in London to soak up the British vibe, with my dad, Cam, and Brooksy. And what a vibe it is - I never expected to enjoy cold rainy london nearly as much as I did. We were lucky enough to stay in a great apartment with my dad in a ritzy suburb called South Kensington. The place names here are hilarious, they all sound either really posh, really Cockney, or like they have been stolen straight off the Monopoly board. South Kensington has some awesome cars around - in one hour we saw over 30 Porsches, plus Bentleys, Aston Martins, Jaguars, and countless BMs and Mercs. Amazing.

Did plenty of touristy stuff which I won´t bore you with - Madame Tussauds, Abbey Rd, Baker St, Soho, Camden Market, Tower of London, London Eye, Big Ben, Buck Palace, Hyde Park, blah blah blah.

Some non-usual-tourist stuff that I really enjoyed included the following: Visiting the home of cricket, Lord´s Cricket Ground, where a really old guy taking us on a tour tried to tell us how the sport of cricket could bring world peace and harmony, we took an illegal photo of the brand new Shane Warne portrait in the Long Room Bar, and we saw the incredible 8-foot slant of the ground from the spaceship-like press box. We saw the incredibly detailed and fascinating Imperial War Museum, showing huge exhibits on WW1, WW2, post-WW2 conflicts, a Spy Section featuring MI5/MI6, and a bunch of tanks, missiles and a replica of the Hiroshima atomic bomb!. And we checked out an exhibition of Pixar Studios (the Finding Nemo guys) at the Science Museum, with heaps of original drawings, video interviews with designers/directors/simulation artists, those classic little Pixar short animated films and stacks more.

Foodwise, I enjoyed plenty of London pints and a Zinger Tower Burger (which is tragically no longer available in Oz) from KFC. Rockin.
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jmbrooks
jmbrooks on Apr 17, 2006 at 12:52PM

Minor omission.
Hi there Tom.

I believe you have missed a rather significant event on the London metro one particular night.

I'll let you fill the readers in.

Cheers from Oxford,

Brooksy

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