brayza in the UK

There’s an Elephant in the Castle

// April 28th, 2009 // Trip information

Saturday (18/4/09) we made it a trifecta of markets. Teneale was getting jealous of Mel and I visiting all these markets while she was working, so we took her down to the Elephant and Castle markets which are close by. Mel bought some tights for £1 and I picked up a watch for the bargain price of £4. At first he wanted 15 pounds for it, then he said I could have it for 10 because I had brought a pretty lady (Mel). I ended up talking myself out of wanting the watch, when he came back and said £s;8. I really didn’t want it anymore so I begun walking away when he said 4. I thought ‘I have £4 in my pocket’, so I bought it. I’m glad I did. It’s actually quite a nice watch

Jekyll and Hyde

Sunday I decided to take my new watch for a walk. Teneale was meeting Gemma at Tottenham Court so Mel and I decided to join her in her travels. We had to take the bus as the Jubilee line was down for maintenance. It’s the newest line and it’s always down on the weekend. Mel and I left Teneale there and we jumped on the Central line to Lancaster Gate.

We begun at the Italian Gardens and walked to the Princess Diana memorial fountain, via the Peter Pan statue. The fountain was really nice and not what I had expected. The water was absolutely freezing but it did not hamper the children from running around in there. After a few photos and a quick splash, we then walked around to the other side and grabbed a hot dog and an ice cream from where you hire the paddle boats. The line to hire a boat was massive. At first I thought it might have been the food line., but lucky it wasn’t. Whilst stopping to eat I noticed the large amount of people rollerblading in the park. I remember rollerblading back in the day, however the rollerbladers on display in the park did nothing for the sports reputation. The rollerbladers made synchronised swimming look like bull fighting. I will never look at rollerblading in the same light anymore. After our little bite to eat we walked to Hyde Park Corner to see the speakers in action. Very, very animated. I caught bits and pieces of what people were talking about and it seemed to revolve around one central theme, religion. I heard one man say “If Catholics were offended by women’s breast then it would be a different story”. We hung around for a bit, I was more interested in watching the speakers and the listener’s reactions. We stopped into our favourite restaurant next to the park then headed home.

A night at the museum

Monday morning I had an interview with a recruitment agency near Holburn. After the interview Mel met me outside the tube station and we walked to the British Museum.

We arrived at the museum in awe of its size and architecture. It took us 6 hours to view all the rooms in the museum. The place is massive and in looking for the exit we stumbled upon the Asia section and the Americas section. Unfortunately by then we were worn out.

The best section at the British Museum would have to be the Greek history section. They had sections of the Acropolis on display including a large section that they have preserved.

We left the museum and made our way to the bus stop for home.