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Here’s to friends in London!

Many, many months ago, back in the dark ages before I was going onto long service leave, Amy and Drew made plans to go to the motherland for a cousins wedding.  As Lady Luck would have it, this overlapped nicely with my return to OZ.  So we made plans, and schemed and decided that we’d meet for few days of letting loose in London-town.  Manja met them at Johan and Stefs wedding back in February (Can anyone say Coooldplay?!? Drew and Manja sure can!!) and couldn’t wait to catch up with them as well.

So we hopped on a plane mid week to arrive in London on a sunny autumn day.  Manja had been before, so she found us a bit of a walking route along the Themse.  After crossing the millennial bridge, we settled for some lunch under the London Bridge, because, why not?

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Entry to another world…  Well, to our Airbnb actually!

Feeling suitably strengthened, we hit the tube to meet up with Amy and Drew at our Airbnb. Amy had arranged an awesome looking Airbnb for us all…  Well, it looked awesome on the photos.  In reality it was a bit…  well, very…  Strange. Like Stranger Things strange, or like “I’ve lost my mind and decided to decorate my home like a serial killer” strange.  But seriously, out of ALL the accommodation I’ve EVER had, this was by FAR the most memorable…  And that includes some pretty interesting places in Nepal!

You still don’t believe me, right? Well thanks to Manjas skill with a camera, the following photos might give you a bit of a feel for the place!

Of course, I couldn’t help but mimic the monkey bookends with the decorative bowl…

After a short rest the four of us headed into town to see some sights and grab some food. At this point Amy was in charge of showing us her town, and we headed straight for Buckingham Palace.  I got to admit I was ready to not be impressed, but it’s a pretty spectacular sight. After I spent ages speculating about the whys and whatfores of the massive statues out the front (google calls it the Victoria Memorial), Amy took charge and took us down the Mall.  I should clarify, that’s the street, leading away from the Palace toward Trafalgar Square.  She didn’t take us shopping.

Regardless, along the way we walked under a few arches lining the road around Victorias Memorial, and found some Aussie ones! Go us, being all commonwealthy and stuff! We even sent some stone sheep!

We walked The Mall for a bit before turning off toward a dude standing on a big Column, overseeing us peasants.  Turns out that this was the Duke of York Column, which is quite impressive for its age.  We continued down to Leicester square where we had a nice bit of food and did do some shopping…  Well, visiting of shops, namely Lego and M&M….  But NOT before taking a happy snap of Simon being trampled by charging horses.  Luckily these were bronzed as part of being made into a statue!

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By this point of the night we were all exhausted enough to turn in and attempt to sleep in our freak show palace Airbnb.  After sleeping there the night, we can confirm that the place may or may not be haunted.

1 Comment

  1. Inge

    Very great pictures and how wonderful it turns out,that you met Ami and Drew.hope you have a good time over there and have lots of fun. Our family surprised me with a midnight Trommelwirbel and with Schlampanger and a nice cake. Ernie und Niko and Louisa and Hilder were there also. Opa is home now and today we had a fantastic Breakfast at the Henley Beach Bistro. Cheers to you all

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