Out and About
Well Joe and I decided to see what wonders London contains, we went down to the corner store to buy a day pass for the trains, tubes and buses, it costs 4 pounds 30 pence or about $11 Australian. I was off to HSBC to get my new English bank card and credit card from HSBC. I opened this account in Australia as in the UK you need proof of address to open an account which can be difficult when you've just arrived.
Anyway, Joe and I jumped on a bus to the train station at Clapham Junction and then a train to Waterloo, from there we went down to the tube to shoot off to Piccadilly Circus. A funny thing happened while waiting for the tube a lady comes up and says she's not from London and asks Joe if the tube went to Charing Cross. Well it seems that we look like locals already, and as there is a map of every tube line on the wall of every station we were able to answer her question.
Well all went well on getting all my bank cards and we also saw a “cheers” pub on the way, we've got some photo's (not very good ones) and started to collect monopoly streets. I told Joe that I'd like to play monopoly and so get a photo of every street on the board, Joe decided to add the task of getting a photo of a hotel which later became any hotel, house or mortgage which only a hotel was really possible being the centre of London.
In the middle of the game we decided to get something to eat, and just wanted something familiar so went to burger king. Joe decided to have an XL Whopper meal Super Sized (no he hasn't seen the movie yet, he was apparently doing research before seeing it.) were I just had a normal, not upsized meal. We did a proper documentary style recording of it and used the camera to do a little movie through the stages of meal.
Anyway back to being a tourist, we then continued on the monopoly track and wandered along Piccadilly until we came across Green Park which had a sign to Buckingham Palace. So off we went to the Palace, the Park was fantastic as I’ve notice London had many large parks in the middle of the city as well as the outer area’s (for example Clapham has some large parks). The gates of Green Park near the Palace is spectacular, massive iron gates with gold, I am not really a writer so can’t really describe it well you’ll all have to wait till I get some photo’s up.
There is a monument in front of the palace which is quite impressive as was the palace itself, it was really unfortunate that my camera ran out of battery’s at this point so I don’t have many photo’s of the palace. We decided that we’d call it a day as the camera already had given up, and headed back for Ben’s house. We are getting a lot more comfortable getting around and surprisingly have felt quite at ease on the public transport here, actually the public transport is great here and you can get anywhere.
We got back and I had a bit of a rest as we where going to go out with Ben to have drinks with his work mates. In the end I was too tired and didn’t feel up to a train ride to the outskirts of London (Woking for those who know) and stayed in. I guess the jet lag is still around; it’s taking a while to get used to this UK time zone.
Anyway, Joe and I jumped on a bus to the train station at Clapham Junction and then a train to Waterloo, from there we went down to the tube to shoot off to Piccadilly Circus. A funny thing happened while waiting for the tube a lady comes up and says she's not from London and asks Joe if the tube went to Charing Cross. Well it seems that we look like locals already, and as there is a map of every tube line on the wall of every station we were able to answer her question.
Well all went well on getting all my bank cards and we also saw a “cheers” pub on the way, we've got some photo's (not very good ones) and started to collect monopoly streets. I told Joe that I'd like to play monopoly and so get a photo of every street on the board, Joe decided to add the task of getting a photo of a hotel which later became any hotel, house or mortgage which only a hotel was really possible being the centre of London.
In the middle of the game we decided to get something to eat, and just wanted something familiar so went to burger king. Joe decided to have an XL Whopper meal Super Sized (no he hasn't seen the movie yet, he was apparently doing research before seeing it.) were I just had a normal, not upsized meal. We did a proper documentary style recording of it and used the camera to do a little movie through the stages of meal.
Anyway back to being a tourist, we then continued on the monopoly track and wandered along Piccadilly until we came across Green Park which had a sign to Buckingham Palace. So off we went to the Palace, the Park was fantastic as I’ve notice London had many large parks in the middle of the city as well as the outer area’s (for example Clapham has some large parks). The gates of Green Park near the Palace is spectacular, massive iron gates with gold, I am not really a writer so can’t really describe it well you’ll all have to wait till I get some photo’s up.
There is a monument in front of the palace which is quite impressive as was the palace itself, it was really unfortunate that my camera ran out of battery’s at this point so I don’t have many photo’s of the palace. We decided that we’d call it a day as the camera already had given up, and headed back for Ben’s house. We are getting a lot more comfortable getting around and surprisingly have felt quite at ease on the public transport here, actually the public transport is great here and you can get anywhere.
We got back and I had a bit of a rest as we where going to go out with Ben to have drinks with his work mates. In the end I was too tired and didn’t feel up to a train ride to the outskirts of London (Woking for those who know) and stayed in. I guess the jet lag is still around; it’s taking a while to get used to this UK time zone.
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