Sunday 5 June 2005
This morning I got to the last pair of clean underwear - so it was off to the Laundrette I noticed yesterday on the way back to the hotel.
Chaucey and I packed up three bags of washing and off we went - we did our coloureds in a huge machine (the cycle cost £4) and out whites in machine the same size as a domestic machine (cost £2.50). Then it was all into the gas fired dryer for 30 mins (£1.50) and then back to the hotel. As a contrast, if we had sent all the washing off to the hotel laundry for cleaning it would have been over 50 pounds!
I read the Sunday Express while we waited at the laundrette, the editorial was critical of the Argentine Parliament's motion to bring war crimes charges against Baroness Thatcher. The Express called Thatcher the best post-war British PM. (I was quite happy about that!) The other big news in Britain is the proposal to scrap petrol taxes and replace it with varible charges depending on which road you use. The charges would vary from 2p for using a country road to £1.30 for using the M25 (the motorway that goes around London) during peak time. To drive from South East London to Wales would cost £150+. Needless to say that this has gone down like a lead balloon with the British public and the media are asking why Labour didn't include this in their election manifesto only a month ago.
The sports pages were mainly about England's thrashing of Bangadlesh and of the Lions game against BOP. The biggest criticsm was not the Lions letting the foot of the throat but of the Kiwi ref penalising the Lions. A persecution complex after one game!
We then went off Leicesterter Square to buy tickets to 'We Will Rock You' for tomorrow night. After a quick lunch it was back onto the Tube to the embankment area. We walked along by the Thames past Cleopatra's needle (which looks ridiculous in the middle of London) to the Millennium Bridge.
Once over the bridge we got to the Globe Theatre, the new theatre modelled on Shakespare's Globe theatre from 400 years ago. We did the tour and got to hear the excellent acoustics of the theatre and afterwards had a look through the education centre and shop.
Afterwards we caught the tube back to the hotel for a rest before heading out to dinner at Wimpy burger. We've only got tomorrow left in London so anything we wanted to do but haven't done yet is got to be done now. I remember Adrian Mole was quite keen on Wimpy burgers and often went with his friend Nigel, and after eating it I can understand why - it's much better than McDonalds! The nearest Wimpy was over in the East End, so we walked back one Tube station before catching the Tube back to the hotel area. Once I've finished updating this entry it's off to bed.
Chaucey and I packed up three bags of washing and off we went - we did our coloureds in a huge machine (the cycle cost £4) and out whites in machine the same size as a domestic machine (cost £2.50). Then it was all into the gas fired dryer for 30 mins (£1.50) and then back to the hotel. As a contrast, if we had sent all the washing off to the hotel laundry for cleaning it would have been over 50 pounds!
I read the Sunday Express while we waited at the laundrette, the editorial was critical of the Argentine Parliament's motion to bring war crimes charges against Baroness Thatcher. The Express called Thatcher the best post-war British PM. (I was quite happy about that!) The other big news in Britain is the proposal to scrap petrol taxes and replace it with varible charges depending on which road you use. The charges would vary from 2p for using a country road to £1.30 for using the M25 (the motorway that goes around London) during peak time. To drive from South East London to Wales would cost £150+. Needless to say that this has gone down like a lead balloon with the British public and the media are asking why Labour didn't include this in their election manifesto only a month ago.
The sports pages were mainly about England's thrashing of Bangadlesh and of the Lions game against BOP. The biggest criticsm was not the Lions letting the foot of the throat but of the Kiwi ref penalising the Lions. A persecution complex after one game!
We then went off Leicesterter Square to buy tickets to 'We Will Rock You' for tomorrow night. After a quick lunch it was back onto the Tube to the embankment area. We walked along by the Thames past Cleopatra's needle (which looks ridiculous in the middle of London) to the Millennium Bridge.
Once over the bridge we got to the Globe Theatre, the new theatre modelled on Shakespare's Globe theatre from 400 years ago. We did the tour and got to hear the excellent acoustics of the theatre and afterwards had a look through the education centre and shop.
Afterwards we caught the tube back to the hotel for a rest before heading out to dinner at Wimpy burger. We've only got tomorrow left in London so anything we wanted to do but haven't done yet is got to be done now. I remember Adrian Mole was quite keen on Wimpy burgers and often went with his friend Nigel, and after eating it I can understand why - it's much better than McDonalds! The nearest Wimpy was over in the East End, so we walked back one Tube station before catching the Tube back to the hotel area. Once I've finished updating this entry it's off to bed.
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