The answer is us... we have Ben, the queen and sweat in common.Its the day we were planning, sight seeing, shopping and packing for the following trips around Europe. It ended up starting very well since we were out for dinner, didn't sleep too early (I went to bed at around 2am after a wonderful conversation with my hunni back home, a much overdue one might I add) but it was all about the sites and all about the organization of seeing what we wanted to see and thats what it meant and thats what was going to happen!
We started out at a early time, around 8:30am when we all arose and grabbed quick showers and dressed for the day, packing some of the goodies and heading to town for some shopping.
We packed and stepped out of the house walked down the street and were on the platform 4 rail tram to Charring Cross station where we grabbed a taxi and head off to Harrods to grab bags (yes we needed more bags) and to allow Wade to grab a little souvenir for himself as well.
It was such a beautiful day in London... wait... let me say that again
It was such a BEAUTIFUL DAY in LONDON, ENGLAND ya its sunny and nice, soooo screwy! Especially since our sources back home say that its raining and shitty back there.
Anyways, we only spent a little time in the "mall" that is Harrods, Links of London for Wade's Maclaren ring then upstairs for a nice Team GB duffle bag and a few t-shirts including a Team GB sport shirt, an Australian team polo shirt and an official London Olympics 2012 shirt, all of which are beautiful and well worth the extra bag needed to fit it all.
After the quick mall run we headed off to Hatton Gardens, which we were told was a great jewelry market by a friend who lives just outside of London and is from the city, when we got there though it was a beautiful market and awesome place it wasn't so much nicer unique jewelry maybe some celtic (my personal favourite) but it was more fine diamonds, lots of woman's wedding bands and engagement bands as well as necklaces and pendants, bracelets and earrings, it was nice, no doubt but it wasn't really a day that we need to spend on the street looking at diamonds, it was worth seeing but still not necessary to walk up and down and pay attention to every window and etc.
After not being able to find the pub that was used in the opening scene of the movie "SNATCH" we headed straight to Buckinham Palace where we said hello to the Queen, checked out her digs and made a few comments that we thought would help security including an electrically charged fence... not a lot... just a little shock, just to say "BACK OFF" I would personally sit in one of the windows and look out and laugh as people got shocked cause guaranteed they would go back multiple times without realizing that it was the fence that did it... we can warn them a sign "Please Do Not Touch The Fence" and so its just their own stupidity then!Walking down the street we headed to a pub called The Birds Nest and had lunch and a beer before walking the mile down the road to Big Ben which is huge by the way... just saying. A few nice photos of the fine work on the outside and the amazing detail and immense size all in check we looked at the time and started to head for a beer at "The Market Porter" before we grabbed the Platform 3 rail tram back to Blackheath and hiked home ready to get in the car on the way to the airport.
Unfortunately we did not meet up with our trusty travel companions and so they took a different route that took them on 5 different rail trams, 2 tubes and an hour and 10 minute boat ride, by the time we got in the car with all the luggage and got to the airport we were 3 minutes over our final baggage deadline for the plane! As we pulled the 2 carts down the platform and headed into the doors we saw Dylan sprinting down to meet us, we ran into the airport and met Mel who was holding up the line at the front of baggage check, we checked our 5 bags and literally sprinted through the airport, through security, down the escalator and to the FARTHEST Gate in the terminal which is huge by the way... what the hell! ha
We made the plane with moments to spare and 60 minutes later we landed and took the taxi into the city, beautiful by the way, very beautiful and great and worth it but the sprint was nice and sweaty and gross. Quick dinner and a walk around a little made it a nice evening, finishing off just a bit ago with a glass of wine and olympic highlights including Bolt who is a freak of nature FYI, now to read a little and head to bed as I just realized the noise I thought was the air conditioning is actually Wade snoring in the other bed.
Good night all, and thank you for reading, again.
Hope you enjoy
Cheers,
-Hero
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