London can see my peanuts!
Well, here we are on leg #1 of our peanut-stravaganza! London is just as AWESOME a city as it could be, and to top it off, the weather has been absolutely fantastic.
My flight in was pretty uneventful; I had a row to myself (to my pleasant surprise) so I actually managed to get in a few hours' sleep on the plane so I wasn't a (total) zombie on Saturday. Saturday was fun - Whitney and I met up about 10 minutes after I got in, we dropped our bags off at the hotel and went for fish and chips and I had a very cool beer named John Smith. Although it was a little weird having a beer at what to me was 7AM...but redeyes fuck up your sense of time so much it really doesn't matter, right? Plus, beer at any time of the day is cool.
After fish and chip delightfulness we went to Greenwich which was way cool. The weather was absolutely perfect, cute little shops and restaurants everywhere, and a big park which had a gently sloping hill up to Greenwich Observatory, which had a kick ass view, not to mention the Prime Meridian! For those of you not geographically savvy, that is the (imaginary) line dividing the Eastern and Western hemispheres. And of course we got pictures of both of us straddling them! Weird that the British would put that right in the middle of their greatest city, but I guess if you're trying to be that worldly you don't want to define yourself as either East or West, right? Hmm...that's food for thought.
After Greenwich we checked in to the hotel, got our nap and our shower on, and headed out to grab a quick bite of Turkish food (by which I mean lamb donar kebabs for me, and eggplant gross mess for Whitney...I forget the name). Mine was pretty good although way too much food! Whitney's looked gross, but I'll admit, it wasn't half bad. Still not a convert on the whole eggplant thing, though. After food we went to Leicester Square to walk around and get another beer, which we did and drank it on the street outside the pub, which felt very sketchy New Orleans when the other people standing out there left. I felt like I needed a paper bag and a straw! And this drunk ass guy came up to talk to us and we had to pretend we were married, which apparently for us isn't that hard. haha. After walking around - including quite a bit of the way back to the hotel before pooping out and catching the Tube the rest of the way - we lay in our bunk beds (I took the bottom bunk) and made up new songs for the Peanutopolis album. It includes such favorites as Talkin' Bout Peanuts (sung to the tune of My Girl); Condoleezza Spread Us Some Peanut Love (sung to the tune of the Kit Kat Bar song).
GREAT night's sleep for both of us and a full day today as well! Breakfast at the hotel which mostly included Tesco biscuits (cookies, for you Americans) followed by a quick jaunt through the V&A, tube up to Notting Hill for window shopping and sandwiches, and then over to the City to see the Wall (which I had never seen!). We met my friend Dan at Blackfriars and walked via the South Bank to a boat bar on the North Bank (don't ask...stupid crowds) where we proceeded to indulge in a wonderful cocktail called Pimm's and Lemonade...it's kind of like the British sangria. I hope they sell Pimm's in the States! Some slight bathroom tension after that as the rooms cost 50p and the smallest change I had was a £20...eep. But all good...Greek for dinner and back to the hotel!
Time's about to run out so I must go! On to Budapest tomorrow. Peanuts forever!!!!
My flight in was pretty uneventful; I had a row to myself (to my pleasant surprise) so I actually managed to get in a few hours' sleep on the plane so I wasn't a (total) zombie on Saturday. Saturday was fun - Whitney and I met up about 10 minutes after I got in, we dropped our bags off at the hotel and went for fish and chips and I had a very cool beer named John Smith. Although it was a little weird having a beer at what to me was 7AM...but redeyes fuck up your sense of time so much it really doesn't matter, right? Plus, beer at any time of the day is cool.
After fish and chip delightfulness we went to Greenwich which was way cool. The weather was absolutely perfect, cute little shops and restaurants everywhere, and a big park which had a gently sloping hill up to Greenwich Observatory, which had a kick ass view, not to mention the Prime Meridian! For those of you not geographically savvy, that is the (imaginary) line dividing the Eastern and Western hemispheres. And of course we got pictures of both of us straddling them! Weird that the British would put that right in the middle of their greatest city, but I guess if you're trying to be that worldly you don't want to define yourself as either East or West, right? Hmm...that's food for thought.
After Greenwich we checked in to the hotel, got our nap and our shower on, and headed out to grab a quick bite of Turkish food (by which I mean lamb donar kebabs for me, and eggplant gross mess for Whitney...I forget the name). Mine was pretty good although way too much food! Whitney's looked gross, but I'll admit, it wasn't half bad. Still not a convert on the whole eggplant thing, though. After food we went to Leicester Square to walk around and get another beer, which we did and drank it on the street outside the pub, which felt very sketchy New Orleans when the other people standing out there left. I felt like I needed a paper bag and a straw! And this drunk ass guy came up to talk to us and we had to pretend we were married, which apparently for us isn't that hard. haha. After walking around - including quite a bit of the way back to the hotel before pooping out and catching the Tube the rest of the way - we lay in our bunk beds (I took the bottom bunk) and made up new songs for the Peanutopolis album. It includes such favorites as Talkin' Bout Peanuts (sung to the tune of My Girl); Condoleezza Spread Us Some Peanut Love (sung to the tune of the Kit Kat Bar song).
GREAT night's sleep for both of us and a full day today as well! Breakfast at the hotel which mostly included Tesco biscuits (cookies, for you Americans) followed by a quick jaunt through the V&A, tube up to Notting Hill for window shopping and sandwiches, and then over to the City to see the Wall (which I had never seen!). We met my friend Dan at Blackfriars and walked via the South Bank to a boat bar on the North Bank (don't ask...stupid crowds) where we proceeded to indulge in a wonderful cocktail called Pimm's and Lemonade...it's kind of like the British sangria. I hope they sell Pimm's in the States! Some slight bathroom tension after that as the rooms cost 50p and the smallest change I had was a £20...eep. But all good...Greek for dinner and back to the hotel!
Time's about to run out so I must go! On to Budapest tomorrow. Peanuts forever!!!!
posted by Raawwwb! at 4:27 PM
1 Comments:
you can drink in the streets here in spain, too, and people do ... big time. madrid late at night looks like mardi gras with so many bottles on the streets. i´m not complaining, though.
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