Overnight to London

Started out on Friday by turning in my huge chemistry coursework! huzzah. then caught the 10:22 train to London. Turns out Jim and Dawn (Americans) were on the same train but headed to Oxford for the day, and Les and his parents (more Americans) were on their way to London as well. So arriving in the city at noon I had a good 5 hours of wandering - went to the British museum for awhile. Overwhelming and full of treasures plundered from all sorts of countries - just the Egypt section was mindnumbing. After that walked around the westside - Leicester Square and Covent Garden. Then over to the houses of parliament and all those necessary tourist things. I met Maree at Piccadilly Circus where we headed over to the East side for a few drinks before the show. Got to meet quite a large group of aussies and kiwis there that are living in london and are friends with Daniel and Maree (kiwis from my scotland tour.) Around 8, we headed over to see the punk show going on that night - Phineas Gage, Four-square, and Ten Foot Pole. Quite a good show, although almost ridiculously loud. You know its bad when I admit that! But anyway, definitely fun to be there with friends, moshing around a bit, but relaxed atmosphere in a kind of small venue. So finished up and back to Maree and Daniels place where I got to take over their couch.

Saturday morning woke up 9ish, met their flatmates, had a huge cappachino. Then went with the boys to a pub in Fulham to watch a rugby final. Very interesting for my first rugby game - Crusaders vs. Brimbees or somesuch. Basically New Zealand vs. Australia. So the bar was full of aussies and kiwis and even got an early license to start selling alcohol at 11am! haha. what a country. At any rate, good game specially being with all the staunch supporters. So did some drinking. Maree and flatmate Lisa got there a bit later and the whole group changed pubs to watch the FA cup final in the afternoon. Also a good game - its basically a soccer match where the best team from the premier league (the best) plays the best team from the first league (2nd best) Almost comparable to the superbowl champions playing the arena football champions. So one always cheers for the underdog. Especially when the other team is Manchester Utd. dang pretty boys! Unfortunately they won as expected, and then I had to say goodbye to my new and somewhat older friends and hop the train back to Bath. Now it's time to get some revision done!