London - June 2009
Sunday: I arrived in Heathrow, met up with moreslash4me and took the tube to Earls Court from where we went to our hotel (base2stay.com) which was really nice! Decided to go out and look for dinner and eventually settled for chinese at 'Dragon Palace'
Monday: Got up and went to Westfield, had breakfast at starbucks and than SHOPPED. we've been to Yo! there to. Later we made our way to the Royal Albert Hall to the John Barrowman concert. SO MUCH FUN.
Playlist of the few YT videos from the day http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=75CDD8AA0C9CC405
We even went to the stagedoor where we waited quite some time, but it was kind of fun. First his parents came out, than Scott (who was handed a gift by a fan and had to sign somethin) and after that John who didn't have time to sign anything (and looked a wee bit tired - no suprise there)
Tuesday: Bit of sightseeing at the Tower and a journey with the riverboat to the London Eye from where we decided to go to the Sir Soane museum (where every first tuesday each month it is candlelit in the evening just like Sir Soane opened his house to Students) with a stopover at Leicester Square to grab a quick sandwich at Pret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Soane%27s_Museum
It is very very weird, lovely, stange and overwhelming. After they've finished renovating it I plan to go there again and book a guided tour beauca 1) not everything is open to the public atm and 2) i think there are quite a few stories behind the exhibits.
Later that evening we went for Fish & Chips at the Earl's Court Tavern which was quite good.
Wednesday: GAP @ Oxford Street, Illamasqua @ Selfridges, afternoon tea @ the Orangery in Kensington Palace (sweet, sweet and SWEET ;) quite nice and an other 'typical' british thing marked as done. The evening was amazing as we went to see La Clique at the London Hippodrome. Unbelievable artist! I especially liked The English Gents:
Click to viewThursday: the day was quite a bit uneventfull as the only thing i did was go to tkts for my avenue q ticket and with moreslash4me to the Apollo Victioria Theatre to get her ticket to wicked, where we took the chance to go to the victoria place shopping center to get a bagle each and do some shopping for tea at Whittard's. After that moreslash4me decided to go see St. Pauls Cathedral which didn't interest me that much so I tried to hunt down sampoerna mild but failed, so I got back to the Hotel to bring back my shopping and went out again to Boots and Starbucks. In the evening i went to see Avenue Q (for the third time since 2007 btw) at it's new home at the Gielgud Theatre near Piccadilly Circus. (catchphrase: feel good at the gielgud) and really enjoyed it! Daniel Boys was fantastic, as was the rest of the cast. My favourite musical ever. (i am not a huge musical fan but i can safely say Avenue Q brought me into it a bit more)
Friday: :(((((( Starbucks and then off to Heathrow where I waited a bit with moreslash4me at teminal 5 and then took the Heathrow express to terminal 3 where i checked in, droped off my bag and went to kill some time waiting for my flight.
So that was my week at London. I am missing it allready. And am planning to go back later this year to see John Barrowman in La Cage aux Folles.
Now I'll take a look at the pictures and videos I made and with a bit of luck I will edit and upload everything too and post that too.