Had to check out of hotel at 11am (stayed at the Oxford in Earls court…Gotta say for the money it was pretty decent…Great location…i would stay there again).
Super nice hotel man answers silly tourist questions and recommends that we go to the science museum…One thing that is great about Europe is the free museums…I now fully regret that I did not go to more museums in the states…Most of the museums are free here (Not so much in the states, except maybe in bigger cities). I’m sure a lot of conservative politicians in the states probably would object to using tax payer dollars to pay for museums, but I think that’s crap!
Speaking of Museums and crap…found the graffiti below in the toilet…thought it was amusing, but in retrospect it’s probably not…still posting it…as if!!!
so went to two museums…great! the nice hotel man let us keep our bags there even though we had already checked out…Thank you nice hotel man!!!
I’m still confused when I cross the streets…Not sure where to look.
so we go claim the bags from the nice hotel man…and head to the city (ok I’m sure when I say the city it means something completely different than what a local means…I basically mean zone 1 -ish)…Vikki works close to the London bridge so we first go to some crap bar to wait but since it’s crap and since Vikki recommended a much nicer place we scurried away quickly…
New place has bottles of wine for 6 pounds. Quite possibly the worst wine I have ever had (and I once bought a bottle of Ernest and Julio Gallo at circle K on S. Commercial near Kuebler…). This very bad wine was also from California and though it called itself a rose it was in fact some kind of watermelon strawberry piece of liquid crap…
went to Vikki’s and Clinton and Claire arrive. I met Clinton at the same time I met Vikki…good to see you mate…enjoy Prague.
We watched a family guy and went to bed somewhere around 2.
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January 2008
31,01,08
an american said “peace out” to me today…wtf!!!!!!!
Same american also said Stalin loved Leipzig…that’s why it wasn’t firebombed…Up until that moment I had not considered actually going to Leipzig, but as it’s also apparently the “jewel of the east” I am now considering it…
however…between the time that I wrote that and the time that I’m writing this I just booked a flight and hostel to dublin…’ello guv’ner….
Ok how is that Irish…
30,01,08
I was enjoying how springlike it’s been (I saw new growth) and how my mood is good, but now it’s about 2 degrees (c) and raining…nice!!! now I’m cold and pissed… 😉
I’m thinking of going to Dublin for the 8-10th…anyone going to be there and want to meet up?
when someone has an idea is that a lightbulb going on or a lightbulb going off?
I’ve seen both.
I was asked what american sports are played in 4 quarters…apparently Lacrosse is played in the states…
and this is possible the best description ever of my web page…cheers matt:
It’s true, when i don’t sleep it turns into Squires’ blog. Random inside jokes. One-liners that probably require explanation even for the people involved. Huge chunks cut and pasted from another website. Unexplained and un-related lyrics to songs nobody else knows or even cares about… it’s great, at least you know you can have a day off at some day mate and i can cover for you!
I’m drinking red wine that was opened 9 days ago because now that I was “educated” about red wine I’m under the mistaken belief that cheap red wine needs to breathe…
I was listening to the Ricky Gervais Show (XM radio 2003) on my train today (mit headphones) and started laughing uncontrollably…not the laughing out loud kind of laugh, but the oh my god I can’t laugh out loud cuz I’m on the train so I better try to hold it in and instead will just cover my mouth and pretend I’m having an asthma attack as I shake uncontrollably kind of laughter…my knees were shaking and kept touching the poor man who was sitting next to me…
I shall spare details of what they were talking about, but in case anyone knows the show (I can share MP3’s if anyone wants them) it was about the sex ed pamphlet…
‘Nuff said…
29,01,08
Wow my deutsch has progressed to the point that I can actually translate rammstein lyrics on occasion…
Ich habe keine lust!
mir ist kalt!
I haven’t walked home from Sachsenhausen in months…(ok 3 kings doesn’t count), but I tonight I walked across the bridge with the swans and David Lynch art (which is it’s own distinct memory) and couldn’t help but remember when I was still travelling here on business…I would always get off at Südbahnhof and walk (often to the Zeil…or wherever I would end up). I think I got off there cuz I just didn’t know where else to go and I figured I could always find my way back there…Got lost many times (the joy of travel), but only once was I so lost I was close to panicking….and that time I was really not that far from Hauptbahnhof and I ended up just walking along the train tracks and then found a sign for Hauptbahnhof though it was about dark by this point…
Why am I telling this engaging story….
well I was just asking myself that same question…
it’s in my head so I type….
This is not for you…this is for my old age…
🙂
Good night people…
28,01,08
I went to starbucks tonight and as I was waiting I looked out the window and I see the asian tourists taking pictures while they are waiting at the street car station…I laugh before realizing I did the same thing LAST NIGHT in London…
randoms
I had a 10 pound note on the table at a restaurant and notice that there is ONE UGLY DRAG QUEEN on the 10 note…then I realize that is not a drag queen….that is Queen Elizabeth the 2nd…wow I thought by allowing free entrance to museums in this country that might mean you were encouraging the arts…however if the “artist” that crated this illustration is somehow good enough to make england proud then I would question everything I’ve seen for the last 5 days….tried to think happy thoughts to get rid the images in my head….
Got a Squires Gin mirror and pitcher as gifts…might be the best gifts ever! Certainly the best gifts I’ve gotten in January and certainly the best gifts I’ve gotten in London…
and the cemetery pic about being cut like a flower and withering like the grass is apparently from the good ‘ol bible…
28,01,08
OK a London pic page…enjoy…
At this moment I’m sitting in Heathrow (Heaf’RO) because there is a two hour delay on my flight to Frankfurt…I had 4 hours sleep and I need a bloody nap…Luckily I have found a hidden plug and am now hijacking power from Heathrow…unluckily I gave away all my change and now have no currency to buy any water which I am now in need of…however I shall try to use my time to review my trip since the last entry….
Flight is now delayed another 20 minutes…I abide…
So I had arrived on Tuesday evening and was staying in Earls court…I wrote about that already…sanne arrived on Wednesday evening, after the movie and park that I wrote about below…I’m writing this today, but I shall go back to my normal date method and attempt to type on in that fashion…
27,01,08
Didn’t finish the walking tour as laid out by Vikki so get up early and attempt to venture out again…
Walk around along Lester(or is it leceistiesietesisiter?) square. still trying to figure out british english…apparently there is still no D in later..pffftt
saw Aliens v Predator 2….I think I may have just paid about 40€ for the privilege of seeing this movie on a sunday afternoon….I am pretty sure I will be complaining about the cinema prices in Leicester square for the next 23 years…
sanne on Heath Ledger: He was with an olson twin…he deserves to die!!!!
Went back to the River for a bit…walked by the Tower of London…got to Vikkis and someone besides me made flamkuchen….T’was great…we played some word game and I think the two native english speakers probably came in last place…the rules were a bit open to interpretation so the game is just more about arguing 🙂
Here’s a picture of Vikki attempting to cheat during said game…
making yummy flamkuchen!!!!! MMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Lovely hair btw!
26,01,08
Ok today we turned into real tourists…walked the thames, saw the Tate Modern. Had another english breakfast because we can’t find a place called Belushis that one of the local crap vendors recommended…I kept trying to figure out how I knew the name Belushis….hmmmm….I think someone recommended it….hmmmm…Must’ve been Matt….oh well we didn’t find it….
plan was to go to rollins show which I thought started at 6:30…at least that’s what the ticket said…We roll up about 6:20 to find that it’s door opening at 6:30 YOU JERKS!!! You need to say that on the ticket don’t you…pricks…so we walk a bit and find a Belushis…I immediately open the door and said something like I don’t like this place… too loud and too many loud people…as we have time to kill we go in anyways…it’s Australia day…
At some point I recall that Matt had written something like “Belushis (avoid)”. If Matt indeed wrote that then I have a whole new respect for you mate…. 😉
Back to venue…Rollins comes on at 8 promptly…He was pretty good, but like many comedians/satirists who talk about politics his views on politics are often simplistic and half true…He was still funny and still worth seeing.
25,01,08
Do a bit of shopping around Camden…kill time until meeting Rob and Claire at the Holly Bush pub…great pub…great night….Thanks Claire and Rob for the invite!
i did the most incredible selling job ever to get them to the Dublin Castle, but we ended up there for only 5 minutes….place was crap…went back to Vikki’s.
24,01,08
Had to check out of hotel at 11am (stayed at the Oxford in Earls court…Gotta say for the money it was pretty decent…Great location…i would stay there again).
Super nice hotel man answers silly tourist questions and recommends that we go to the science museum…One thing that is great about Europe is the free museums…I now fully regret that I did not go to more museums in the states…Most of the museums are free here (Not so much in the states, except maybe in bigger cities). I’m sure a lot of conservative politicians in the states probably would object to using tax payer dollars to pay for museums, but I think that’s crap!
Speaking of Museums and crap…found the graffiti below in the toilet…thought it was amusing, but in retrospect it’s probably not…still posting it…as if!!!