// February 17th, 2005 // No Comments » // General
Went to London last Saturday with Nick and Meggs. We arrived in London at about 9am, near the Wembley stadium, which looks like it’s going to be quite impressive. Anyway we decided to find parking somewhere nearby and then get the tube into the city center, however it took us quite a while to find somewhere suitable, we weren’t helped by the amount of bus stops that have the ‘underground’ sign above them, leading to a number of false alarms. The driving in London is also quite crazy, people pulling out in the street infront of others with no regard for safety was a common theme.
Eventually we found a zone 4 tube station, paid £1.50 for all day parking (y) and got a tube day pass for zones 1-4 which cost less than £5. It took us roughly thirty minutes to get into Oxford street I believe. We ended up shopping till like oneish on Oxford Street, I bought three books, two cds and a box of shot glasses.
At about oneish we decided to head into Soho in search of some record stores, we ended up going into Reveal, Selectadisc and a couple of others. We then went to Picadilly Circus and Virgin Megastore, I bought a computer game from there, and Meggsy bought like three seven inches with heat sensitive covers.
From there we headed up Regent Street and ventured into the five story toy emporium that’s Hamleys, we spent quite a while in there. I was in turns amazed and dissapointed. Amazed at a huge 30 foot (or there abouts) stuffed toy giraffe, and dissapointed that Sega World was just another arcade, nothing that new or revolutionary. Also there was some girl going on the esculators ahead of us, as we were mid way up one, she was on the adjacent part of the one going to the next floor up, each time she passed me she yelled “UP” in my ear for some unknown reason.
Soon after we climbed back on the tube and decided to do the tourist thing, so we walked along the Thames for a while and crossed over the millenium bridge. It was quite nice, the bridge would’ve been more interesting wobbling though I’m sure. We walked across tower bridge as well, and tried to take photos while on it, all we got were squiggly lines where the lights were though.
At about sevenish I believe we decided to be off, only finding a tube station that was open was a bit of a nightmare! There were line maintenance so some of the routes were shut off. Eventually though we found one and travelled home on it, tired out by little sleep and walking outside all day I kept dropping to street, well tried, everytime I fell asleep the others woke me 
After a fairly uneventful drive back we called in for a balti on the way home. Starved by that time, I stuffed myself, and I enjoyed it.
