Day 2: Circuses, Celebrities, and lots of Wax.

Day 2. 17/8/2008

The day started off with a decision that we would shift to a nicer and proper hotel. And it's what we did. Moved 3 or 4 lots down and there was Park International Hotel. Left our stuff there and got away for the day, where my mom's friend, who lives in London would take us around.

As usual, we took the underground train, or subway. Queued up for about an hour and were finally into celebrity haven. Saw well known faces like Johnny Depp, Cameron Diaz, David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Jose Mourinho, Lance Armstrong, and the Beatles. Even managed to come into touching distance with them and snap a few photos. This then continued into a Dungeon where there were serial murderers and crazy people running around, scaring the bejesus out of people. Oh, and I'm talking about wax models of course. This is all in Madame Tussauds. Sorry to burst your bubble if you thought you would be reading about someone who got near celebrities. The dungeon part was live actors though.

Soon after, we went to Picadilly Circus, with it's colourful neon signs, bumbling with life. Nice place really, shops everywhere around a center, a pedestrian filled area around a fountain. We walked from there to Leicester Square, which is basically a park and where tickets to shows and plays are sold. Weirdly, the place has more Italian food than English. I believe London has 15 Bella Italia's. Then again, this is probably how it is around the world, Italian food is the favourite anywhere. Had lunch at an Italian Ristorante which was good, but expensive like food everywhere for tourists.

Continued to Trafalgar Square, which had an enormous Screen up, to show the Olympics. Every Brit channel was showing the success of Team GB over and over again but the place was great, buzzing with people watching the screen or just hanging out. 2 huge fountains flanked the screen. We continued on in search of Covent Garden which we wouldn't find on that day. In our search though, I came across a group of Chelski fans coming back from their 4-0 opening day win. About 50 of them all in blue coming out of the subway, mostly bald, and mostly with beer bellies. The typical English middle-age guy.

Weary and slightly confused by the signs that pointed us to Covent Garden, we kinda gave up and went back, stopping by HMV, which is one of the things that I would really really love to have in Malaysia. It's a huge record store btw, sells games, clothes, CDs, DVDs and stuff like that. If I lived there, I would probably visit it every week and would probably manage to buy something out of there on every visit. On this trip, managed to get 2 awesome t-shirts, and 3 cds which have proved impossible to find in Malaysia, because our local retailers just believe in bringing in shit-pop like Dick 5, Rihanna, Jon-ass Brothers and more homosexuals like that. Money-spinning bullshit.

With that done, went back to Park International and that was it for Day 2.

Once again, the full album is available at http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=55535&l=05eb2&id=563730916 It's all from my mobile and all taken in Sepia.

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