London...

London eh....

I really didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did.

But it was tremendous.

Here's your Well Done Fillet Guide to London
(with pictures)

Hotel: We were booked into Base2Stay near the Earls Court road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Oooooooh fancy). The whole area surrounding the hotel is like a giant car park for Range Rovers, Porches, and Bentleys. It was superb and considering it was so cheap, £320 for three nights, I was doubly impressed. It's an Apart-hotel meaning there is no bar or kitchen but you get a kitchenette. My first flat had a kitchenette and a very odd man living next door but that's where the comparisons end. The rooms were stunning, airy, bright and very well maintained. If you need somewhere to stay in London free from snippy staff, bad buffet breakfasts, damp, 1970's decor then Base2Stay is the jobby for you. It's very close to a tube station so it's just perfect.

Base2Stay

Tour: The highlight of the tour wasn't Downing Street or St Paul's Cathedral or even the London Eye but rather it was when the guy with tourettes got on. At first I thought he just didn't like London, "BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS BOLLOCKS" he shouted as we passed the London Eye. Big wheels aren't for everyone I thought. And when we passed the Houses of Parliament he was even more forceful when he cried, "CUNTS". Nobody disagreed and he carried on conversing with his friend. It did get a bit tiring after a while though and I got really cheesed off when LMM wouldn't let me join in.

That's me at St Paul's Cathedral
they were looking a tenner in.
Arse to that....

Me and Big Ben
(and big tum)

Me on a bus
how delightful!

Things to do: One of the highlights of the trip for me was going to Tate Modern. You could very easily spend days walking through the building and still not see it all. Unfortunately we didn't have time for that. So we took in the Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition which for a chap like me was delightfully bewildering. Tate is totally worth the suggested donation fee of £3.00 and paying into the big exhibitions is also worth the cash especially if you can explain it all to me. The food there is excellent. The Science Museum was recommended by numerous people including uber geek Toast. And how right he was. It was great fun. It's like a huge great big toy box and it's free! Free, what a great word!

modern Manuel
why is he smiling?
why?

Modern mackerel with potato salad and garlic toast
freaking loverly......

manuel always had a thing for big women...
oh quit your "moan"ing....

I had a bit of a tan by this point

We also did quite a bit of shopping, Harrods etc. It was more craic watching others shop than actually shopping ourselves. I mean people who spend hundreds if not thousands on handbags and jumpers need to be watched. Watched and ridiculed. My intention had been to buy lots of records but that just didn't happen. I got two which was a serious disappointment. But I did buy two pairs of shoes. Which was odd. I have now doubled my shoe collection. Do four pairs of shoes count as a collection? Does it matter? I doubt it.

We did other things. Things like walking, lots of fucking walking. Too much walking. Oh how I hated the walking. And we ate, mainly at Wagamama and Cafe Nero and at EAT. London was and is great. The people were fantastic, helpful, and friendly except for one bus driver who was a right fucking grump. On to Paris now in the Autumn......

LMM and Manuel
ahhhhh look at our big heads.....