UK at last - London

London, its like a big theme park with lots of free rides, cool sights and strange guys. A few days in the British capital with some friends was going to be a fun time! After the usual rigmarole of customs, cavity searches and duty free boxes of cuban cigars it was time to head over to Clapham. A quiet evening in with Paul and Lisa watching the champions league (4-4 my ass Chelsea and Liverpool) was the perfect start to a few days.

The next day involved the hassle of setting up a UK bank account and determining how many cornish pasty's to eat from the shops. Plus I had to find some chavs and determine why Chicken Tikka was actually England's national dish. The answer to that is that supposedly it was invented in the UK by a chef who was meant to be making curry but didn't have all the right ingredients so added some tomato and a few other things and bam, Chicken Tikka was born. Now sold approximately every 5 metres on the streets of the UK. After that it was time for some sight seeing, now for a change of pace I headed to the Churchill Museum and War Rooms.
Now see here, that's a real enigma machine, so don't worry we've got the code cracked and can determine where the next U-Boat attack is coming from. The war rooms have been largely untouched since the end of the war and are in ship shape condition for determining which convoy is the next to be sunk.

The Churchill museum which is attached to the war rooms is a look at one of the most loved (and hated) modern leaders. Its one of the most technologically advanced museums I've seen. This huge table is a history of Churchill's whole life and you can go around and select individual days to determine what he was up to. No, not what he had for dinner, but what monumental events he was involved in at that point. Anyway, I thought it was nifty and if you don't like it you can go to hell.

The evening was spent in a drunken state with Paul who ventured out with me on a pub-crawl of clapham. Now, this was an onerous undertaking helped by the a few fine single malts, the worst kebab in the history of the universe, a fine cuban cigar and a very late night. Suffice to say that the next day was spent largely sleeping and then catching up with some high quality wii gaming. BTW, the control system for PES2009 kicks ass. You can drag players around the field with the wii mote while moving another player, while scoring a bullshit bicycle goal. Classy.

Unfortunately my time in London was over all too soon, and it was off to Glasgow for the first part of my scottish adventure, aye.