brayza in the UK

The Easter long weekend

// April 21st, 2009 // Trip information

Well Friday (10/4/09) was the start of the Easter long weekend. But it didn’t make any difference to those unemployed. The long weekend started with a visit to the Imperial War Museum. The Museum was fantastic, really well laid out and excellent parts of war history all over the place for visitors to interact with up close and personal. The “Pièce de résistance” would have to be the Holocaust exhibit. It details the entire WWII from the Nazi perspective. It was fascinating; the museum staff have done a brilliant job. It took about an hour just in that section alone to get through all the information. After a while your brain is too overloaded and you have to take a break. Definitely check out the Museum if you’re in London.

A lighter subject

The next day we decided to take in a subject a little less serious, shopping!

Teneale, Mel and I went down to Shepards Bush to the largest Westfield in the Northern Hemisphere. The mall was massive. We were lucky enough to catch the Lindt Easter Bunny in the Easter maze. Teneale did the most of the shopping that day. She picked up a few bargains in Sports Direct. In fact she was able to buy a Jumper, skirt, singlet and 5 pairs of socks for the price I paid for one t-shirt from Henleys.

Let’s go Walkabout

After we finished at the Mall (about 6 hours later) we went to where every Australian goes on a Saturday night; The Walkabout. Actually, I think we were the only Aussies there. We had a good feed there and hung around for the band. They were awesome, really good band. They played a variety of all music styles from Nelly to Killers to Cold Chisel, and the best part was that they remixed the songs so there was no silent gap in between songs, they were really really good.

Snake Bite

After a few ciders and a lot of vodka Red Bulls’, Teneale and I decided to risk our health and we ordered a pint of Liquid crap Snake Bite each. OMFG! How can anyone drink that crap? It was disgusting! Nuff said!

Oh another thing to mention is that there was a guy in the toilet who gives you soap, paper towels and gum. How nice…however I did give him money, and it can get annoying when you drink a lot..

Recovering

Well Sunday was the recovery day from our near death experience with the Snake Bite. And from one near death experience to another one we move onto dinner and drinks at Soho for Teneale’s birthday.

The dinner was fantastic. Teneale chose a really nice place to eat at Emm’s Cafe. Teneale, Gemma, Mel and I really enjoyed our meals. It was good service and great food.

After dinner we decided to involuntary give our organs away go out for a few drinks. We were met outside by a lovely Russian man who gave us a voucher for 2-1 drinks at a club in Soho. We took the voucher and he led us down this shady street which resembled King Cross back in Oz. I feared for my precious kidneys; imagining myself waking up in a bath full of bloody ice.
The guy was very pushy to get us into the club, but once we were inside and it looked like the other people in the club had all there major organs intact, we stayed. Gemma, feeling like a few cocktails, got the orders underway, and 10 minutes later we had a table full of cocktails that nobody wanted to drink, except Teneale, but she’s an alcoholic. After drinks we parted ways with Gemma and left for home.