Tuesday, July 3, 2007

my happy snaps tales begins in the famous city of London, home of Princes William and Harry... our flight from Vancouver to London took 9 hours, it was the longest 9 hours of my life... we landed at Gatwick airport and we still had to take a 30 minute train to London Bridge station and from there we walked towards Borough High St. and reached our hostel, St. Christoper's Inn.

i've never been in a dorm type of setting place before, but this trip required me to be open minded and i could not afford to get a private room. as soon as we got settled, me and van rushed out to Borough High St. and ventured the city of London. As any crazy tourist would do on their first day, we took the Tube.


The London Underground, "The Tube", is so much better than the Skytrain at Vancouver. The stations were sometimes across each other and all the must-see places were quite accessible. We rode the tube all night long, no pun intended, so much so that we got into the wrong connection a couple of times. Hey, I think even Londoners get lost at their own Tube. We did pretty well for a first time Tube commuter.

As we were enjoying going round and round the Tube, we suddenly realized that we had not eaten anything since we landed at Gatwick airport. By this time, we had not eaten since we landed at Gatwick airport.
When we got back at our hostel, low and behold, it was cheap beer night at the pub below... ofcourse we can't pass on that. After seeing the very attractive advertising, we forgot our hunger and ordered a pint of beer. After several pints of beer, we realized that it karaoke night and weird guy came up to me and told me i was next. I must have been really drunk cause I found myself holding the mic and singing "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette. It was a blast though. A great prelude on what was to come.