We arrived in sunny London at 10.30am, and ventured to our hotel in Paddington. We had 3 hours to tour London before meeting our friends at the pub for a few tasty beverages. The usual Hyde Park, Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben & Westminster Abbey were all visited.
At 4pm we strolled over to Brick Lane which came with a high recommendation from Sam…His recommendation did not disapoint. We started at cafe 1001 , which was a crazy cafe mixed with a dance club. After many beers and catching up with everyone, we decided to head for dinner at an Indian restaurant.
Brick Lane has about a billion Indian restaurants so they’re all gagging to get your business and you can stand in the street and let two restaurant owners yell out the deals they will give you — free pappadums, free wine, beer, meal discounts, just to get you in the door.
We spent about 15 minutes surrounded by yelling Indians with the deals getting better and better — soon Craig had one guy giving us Free pappadums, 2 bottles of wine, a round of beers and 30% off our meal!! But the other half our group made the fantastic decision to just walk in and sit down at some other place with no discount, no free pappadums and only1 round of beers :( Anyway the meal was amazing, plenty of food and the quality was great so it was a good choice after all. Plus we did end up getting some free beer, wine and pappadums.
Heading out after our curry experience, we were shown ol’ London town by 2 of Sam’s mates. 1st place being a Foosball bar, where Glenn and Matt remain undefeated after 1 game. 2nd place was probably the weirdest bar we have ever been to, with a combination of hot women, 80’s fashion, crossdressers and gay men. Craig thought it would be funny if Paul and Matt got photos with each “group” of people…photos to come
On arriving home to the hotel, Paul and Matt got in trouble from Papa Carl for being “drunk again”. “You’re drunk again, why dont you shut the f*** up, etc”. Paul and Matt being in an intoxicated state, started giggling like little school girls at Carl’s comments. This made Carl more angry, and heightened the laughter from Paul and Matt. After the giggling died down (around 30 minutes later), we head off to sleep and prepare for the next day in Ireland.
Princess Gingerloch, Sir Craigalot, Duke of Kentwell, Lord Varley
Mum Craig said,
August 16, 2007 @ 11:27 am
you are all being very naughty boys!!!