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London highlights summary

Weds organised £9 train to London! £24 for a week of transport! Tiny bag. 5 minutes of rain! Italien steak. Einaudi ACE! Better than Disturbed and Turisas :O Easy maps and compass. Weetabix :D

Thurs Dinosaurs! Earthquake1 Octopus! Bathers :D Midnight London. Spent nothing!

Fri Bye Mum Lost! Sushi, Fergus Noone, Lost, Wrong key, lost, Turisas, lost Waxys, sax tube jazz pop, smiles! :D lost lol

Sat Choc shreddies, Camden market, lost, DCHAMPX friends :D ChripyAphids :Disturbed singer was off tune : ( Mashed aphids! Nandos run! Free train! Fighting arguing and spanking on the train lol Drunk drive home eeep 360

Sun Felix, hi kids im tall! Gotham 4 COD 4 Reggae and Bowling! :D Nandos! Doubles air footbal. Forza 2 Pink room

Mon free train! plus £9 train home! :D


Friends and family :D
New friendsd, old friends, spent very little thankful for the time off work, cheers boss.
Shocked I didnt use my MP3 player much
Internet-less for 6 days!
When I was lost, people helped me, or ran away from me if it was midnight lol
I love recommendations, and competing with people of similar interests and skills :D


It was fun! :D





weds 1st oct

slept in as long as poss lol got mum worried about us missing the train
20 minutes and i was ready for off :P oo exciting! :D gutted i had to bring a bag with me : ( suppose i need it for six days. so far ive spent £6 to picadilly, £7 to euston, and £25 for a 7 day oyster card, that's about £4 per day! free hotel for two days, thanks mum :P £30 travelodge for friday, free bed at the house de l'aphids saturday and sunday :D cant believe the train journey is only just over 2 hours between manchester and euston :D awesome new music on my mp3 player :D demians ayreon battleore and juno reactor :D everythnig to plan. no street entertainers in covent garden though : ( but cheap lunch :D 2 cornish pasties and a sausage oll in the rain and tea and a cookie thanks mum :D didnt expect to be seeing the longon eye and big ben so soon! the underground is ace! :D been travelling for 6 hours, rest! :D
ill have to try my best not to frighten the einaudi barbican staff in my leather jacket again. someone may recognise me from last year
already been all over london, seen the eye and i'm bigger than big ben! sexy women everywhere!!
einaudi was ACE!! great venue! sexy ladies. dream gig. close to the hotel and the italien! :D massive steak! :D yum lovely lil restaurant : ) no booze or bananas required! :O comfy seats I nearly fell asleep. last train 12.30 hotel nexto a strip club! :O mm hot chocolate and weetabix :D

going to see dinosaurs!!!
two random black dudes (one in covent garden, one in the barbican) were dead friendly to me. one respected my height, the other respected opeth! :D also an einaudi fan then! :D good stuff!
girl fell down the stairs! :O we went out the wrong exit but found milk!
track list mum? kioret de la not, monday, rit an aire, uno, igiorni, sorry about the spelling lol im not an expert and cant be arsed looking the song names up!
mum really is a big fan though!
it wass totally different to a rock gig, everyone was sat down and it was so quiet, a bit annoying at tiimes coz people cough but cant help it. quid smoking! clapping every half an hour or so was so loud! atmosphere. thrilling, buzzing! subtle moody stage colours, andere, good modern technology for the acoustics, impressive building.
such a contrast to the royal albert hall. even the philamonic is boring in comparison! mmmm malt horlichs reminds me of grandmas sleepover! with crackers! and countdown! happy! : )
hopefully mum can improve by unconsciously copying einaudis style. expression.
unbelievable how he memorizes all of the songs!
saying that though lang lang can memorise much more complex pieces as can stephen hough.
probably a high percentage of the audience can play some of his pieces. pure relaxation, chillout. great at this time with money problems in the world.

thurs 2nd oct

woah information overload! didnt recognise chantel! so tall! she probably thought the same about me lol
saw roly for a few seconds but she had to shoot off (
elaine was so nice! ted was so informative and helpful!
natural history t rex was almost real!
earthquake simulator, not quite as violent as i remember 10 years ago

hi ted : )
duke of york for pate on toast. ted had octopus. old photos. smell of their house brought back many memories for me. cold. mmm hot chocolate. ted has had a mini laptop like mine for 6 years!!! :O knerpsed! nice late night walk over the thames to catch the views of the london eye, big ben,westminster houses of parlliament, picadilly circus :D amazing accordian player in the tube

ted recommended signing up with virgin/singapore airlines etc, dress in a polo shirt and jeanns on the plane, drink 3 glasses of champagne really fast after eating and fall asleep. can skype ted and email all of the bathers :D
ted uses western digital for external hard drives
wasnt too loud in the hotel, very comfortable even though i was on the floor
weetabix and tea mmm
i spent a total of £3 on thursday! thanks to mum and ted :D

fri 3rd oct

lost! : (soo tired!good day though. went to a chatiry shop with Mum and bought a Jack Daniels one strap backpack and some leather gloves for a total of £8! :D
BYE MUM! : ) Quite easily met up with Pete in Canary Wharf. Sushi for lunch, very pleasannt! And coffee! Thanks Pete! :D He recommended Greenwich so I went : ) Time museum, maritime, astrology telescope thingie. I randomly found Fergus Noone's gallery/shop! :O :D Was very nice to meet him and Siobhan :D Hopefully she is going to email me advice about my travels :D Hugged her : ) Took me a while to fnid my Travelodge coz Googlemaps postcode was slightly out ; /
A couple of random cops I got chatting to in the chicken take away while I was asking around for the Farringdon Travelodge recommended a job for me in Sydney!! :O :D
The printers union printers aassistant. Good pay apparently!

It was strange and almost totally embarrassing how the receptionist gave me a key to a room with people in it! : O lol eeep! I fumped my bag and headed to find the Astoria. that took a good while! lol the queue was tso long! unfortunately I missed the first song of Turisas : ( They were good butu only did one song I love. : ( I don understand why hey milked "f*ck the guitar solos" when they were supporting DragonForce! As expected I didnt like DragonForce so I left early, hadd some chips and failed to find the Cro Bar or the Intripid Fox : ( Waxy O Connors Irish Bar was ace though! : D
Waxys is huge! sprawling maze of cave rooms, posh though! VERY busy! fratellis, Chilis, Fallout Boy, Reef!...
Thanks to me being unable to find the clubs, I found myself in Leicester Square underground watching and old jigging saxophone player jaxxing up some popular tunes LD pink panther, Hey Baby, Three blind mice, Beverley Hills Cop, amster Song... and just a recorded unstoppable laugh to finish off as he packed away : D

Thanks to the old sax bloke I got chatting to a VERY pretty young lady :D She also couldnt take her eyes off him or wipe the smile off her face lol
It was so nice to see so many people smiling and dancing. I took pictures, and recorded videos for people, helped with directions, constantly smiling :D
This was the night I got so unbelievably lost trying to find my Travelodge, I mustve walked about an hour in the wrong direction! and no buses were going in the right direction so I had to walk all the way back lol, silly drunk muppet shouldve checked my compass sooner!
Its a good job im tall coz people tended to cross the road rather than walking past me in the rough area of London at 1 in the morning!

Sat 4th oct

Wow! What a day!! Woke up in my Travelodge with only 20 minutes to watch and eat my chocolate Shreddies
. tubes to and from camden cancelled due to engineering works on the line : ( used buses instead. wandered around camden market a few times. its massive! nearly bought an egyptian god papyrus scroll.
eventually found dave (dchampx) and jon :D sound best mates. really nice company. again, strange to meet up with someone from the past off xbox live!
camden market is fcking HUGE! we saw what must've been one of the biggest curry wok's in the world! unfortunatly i didnt make it to camden for a night out as i was busy getting lost around kings cross but the oxford arms served us well on saturday afternoon! : )
curry. football. bowling. daves cousin bangkok! :D shes lovely and pretty : )
to brixton! i get there just in time and luckily bump into the chirpyaphids at a cash machein :D quick ciders in the queue
it was a shame the gig wasnt as good as expected : ( shinedown were a let down and disturbed were ace but the sniger really struggled to hold/hit his powerful notes in most songs : ( i was a bit tired too.
changed the memory card and battery for my camera just in time in the break between the bands. ok photos. chirpy sarah and pete got so drunk! tequila and gin galore! i was in such a rush to get my jacket and pete took ages in nandos (he walked straight past the doorman who was tellling him nandos was closed lol then he had to wait for them to cook him his chips) leaving us just a few minutes to catch the last train. i even gave sarah a leg up over nandos wall so she could nag him to get a move on lol. we legged it! then at train change i needed a ticket to lingfield but got away without :D :P
and i held the train up for the chirpies lol so much fun hahah
sarah and petes drunken fighting, arguing and spanking on the train. very funny. peter drunk drove home!
hi felix. sublime and pantera :D call of duty 4 ive not lost it hey :P still sh!t at golf though lol. awesome day! i love my friends! indestructible! 360 til 4am!

sun 5th oct

woke up with felix asleep on top of my legs lol
hi kids! im tall! lol
mmm thanks for the great british cooked breakfast sarah :D and coffes Pete :D gotham 3 and call of duty 4 reggae! bowling! :D rainy day so no early morning forrest mushroom picking : ( nandos!! :D doubles air hockey/football :D outrun 2 three player :D peter won the first game of bowling. not a bad bowler! i was crap lol! trying my best to spin bowl but i won the second game! :P was sick of messing up so i straight bowled. great races with pete on forza 2 :D

im ready to go home but ive loved my time down south so much! GREAT friends! :D my preparation made almost all of my journeys smooth : )

mon 6th oct

woah!
what a day!
woke up in pink room again! : / lol
finished off me chocolate shreddies :D
see ya chirpy's! : )
free train again! from lingfield back to london! :P
easy tube to euston
sausage bagal
superbly quick and cheap train to manchester £7 again! :P
kinda sad to be leaving london coz i had such a great time and I still cant believe how little i spent or needed to take!
wrote up my highlights of the holiday :D
i love osi and demians! :D
to bishops :D he woke up just in time lol
i told him nearly all of my highlights before he had to leave for uni lol
then i went and broke into sheps house!! eeep lol
burgler alarm went off
i had to phone to get the alarm code off him lol
checked my emails on his pc while i waited for their arrival to find that my customer steve highfields website was close to being taken off the internet as it needed renewing eeep had to phone him quickly from sheps!
i told shep and claire a repeat of my highlights of weds and thurs
so sorry claire i had an amazing time in london and good weather whereas your bouncy castle got rained off :( gutted!
thats bad luck!
to a noodles place, cant quite remember the name of it, in fallowfield
quite expensive but tasty and i got a lot for my money!
strange how the first time i use chop sticks was in london for the first time i had sushi and again a few days later for the first time i had noodles! then the first time i had nandos was also in london, with the second time a day later, in lingfield
:D
good times!
back to sheps for snowboard kids, he kicked my ass again, and quake 2 :D
last train home with tony and alan! : )
nice lil catchup, that train ride really passed quickly!
i really need a shower
my head is all over the place!
what a day! what a holiday!
came back home to find out my sisters laptop is fecked so now the only computer in the house that works properly is my baby notebook!
well over a hundred new emails. 6 days without internet!

£6. To Manchester
£18 To London and back
£24 Around London for a week! - Oyster Zone 1 and 2
£30 Einaudi gig
£22 Disturbed gig
£20 Turisas/DragonForce Gig
£30 Travelodge Friday night
£10ish Cider, Chicken, 2 Chips, Water,, Bananas, Tictacs
£6 Cloak rooms
£2 Manchester buses
£10 Noodles for Claire's 21st
£10 For three bottles of Lingfield Lava Chili sauce off Peter

£188 Total

I got free trains to Lingfield and back :P (2 hours)
A free train back to Padgate from Manchester 45 mins)
Free meal and Travelodge for two nights, Gloves and backpak from Charity shop worth £8 off Mum
Free meals and lifts off Ted and Elaine
Free bed for two nights, entertainment, cooked breakfast, coffees, Sushi, Nandos and bowling thanks Aphids!
Free tap water in clubs, pubs and the Barbican
Free drink off John and Dave :D


A great week in London :D