My last post was actually on Christmas Eve, and that night we discovered that our les mis tickets were for a show that didnt exist.... we rocked up to the theatre and we were told that they told the sellers the wrong information and they sold 130 tickets to a show that doesnt exist.
That was dissapointing, but the Christmas Dinner the next day more than made up for it. It was my first traditional Christmas dinner and my family certainly delivered. We had roast ham, roast turkey, brussel sprouts with butter, roast potatoes, steamed vegies, yorkshire pudding and trifle. We all left the table absolutely stuffed, and Monica even bought christmas crackers which i lost 4 in a row.
The next day we took on the English Population and went shopping in the boxing day sales. It was like Pitt Street but worse, with a huge mob outside of selfridges and co, largely asian pushing and shoving to get in at 11:30 in the morning.
It was pretty crazy that day, with the whole city packed with shoppers. We all bought stuff except for Andrew, i got a few nice shirts, and im sure alicia and co will approve, i got a ysl shirt, some nice cufflinks, a few nice ties, including a dior which my cousin gave me. Also picked up a really nice suit, all presents from my cousins.
Today i saw the british museum, which was awesome, i spent about 6 hours in there, there was so much to see. It was awesome, the highlights are definitely the egyptian and greek sections, they have pieces of the parthenon and a lot of mummy and egyptian artifacts. I saw the rosetta stone, and the lindow man (peat bog).
There are also extensive european, celtic, near east, chinese, korean, african, american and there was a katana exhibition which i really enjoyed. The museum itself is beautiful, and huge, i definitely didnt see it all but it was amazing just to see all these thousand year old artifacts, the detail and quaility which is not available today. The british take entire rooms from other countries like a the palace walls from nineveh and the giant guardian statues from assyria.
Its weird to see all these things in a sterile environment, they seem slightly out of place.
London is great, best chicks to far in my opinion.
Enjoying myself immensely.
Miles
3 comments:
wait so what happened with the le mis tickets then? the show didn't exist... so did you at least get your money back or did they give u tix to another show?
sam
sounds like you got some nice clothes, very impressed about the cuff links!
the museum sounds amazing. i want to be overseas :*(
happy new year! stay safe!
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I just return from trip to London. For me visiting London was a little like reliving fairy tales from my childhood. Growing up reading about a land filled with kings and queens, singing a song about the London Bridge, and being told in seventh grade Geography class that Thames is pronounced “Tims”, were enough to create in me the desire to visit this place at some point in my life. I am deeply grateful for being given the opportunity to travel to this amazing city. I was amazed of a quantity of Limo London owners. I love going to Cities and getting lost in the history of the place, I can do that every day in London. Next time you go to London, open your eyes and look around you. It is like an another world.
Thanks Lyd for your fascinating blog, pictures.
Keep up the great work!
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