My great Arventure

Arrival: London (April 26th)

Well after nearly 2 years of talking, fantasizing and stealing on April 26th, 2006 Rohit and I finally began our Euro 2006 Trip!!!

And what better place to start off than London, England. We could barely understand what they were saying and everything was incredibly expensive... sounds like a great place to start a vaction to me :D

We arrived in Gatwick Airport around 11am and quickly adjusted to European Culture.


After checking into our hostel we started to explore the sites of London. It was quite interesting to start off the tour. Some of them were a bit sleepy...



Yes, that is a real person sleeping! And of course Rohit managed to meet his usual fruity friends.



[Aside Funny Story: We asked a Police Officer at the tube station how to get to Pariliament. I for the most part understood what he said. However, when we started heading towards the platform Rohit said, "What did he say about my mama"!!]

But eventually we got to the good stuff.



No it's not me I'm talking about. That's Big Ben in the background!! And of course Big Ben is right next to Parliament.



You'll be pleased to know that we actually went into Parliament and saw a rousing round of REAL British Parliament. Unfortunately our visit didn't last for long as we got kicked out for repeatedly yelling, "Hey Tony!!!"

GQ Shot on the Thames River!!



You may have noticed in the above picture that while I'm staring off towards a peanut stand the London Eye is staring right back @ you. As you can guess that's where Rohit and I headed to next. And apparently we weren't the only ones eager to get there either :P



Here's a nice shot of Big Ben and Parliament from the side of the river where the London Eye is.



And here is Rohit trying to make it Portrait of a Brown Man (and guest) in line at the London Eye.



But after establishing some ground rules about guest appearences in P. of a B.M. shots we eventually got up there. It was here that we developed this weird habit of taking candid shots of each other.





But we stuck to the basics as well.



London actually has a ver expansive skyline. It stretches as far as the eye can see. But I think the most striking feature of its "skyline" is the number of cranes. It is a bit difficult to see in the photo below, but trust me they are there.



After becoming overly excited with the bird's eye of London we took it easy and walked around Leicester Square and discovered that London appears to be an alternate universe to Toronto.



And when we got back home we also saw a little bit into the future



Next up: Camilla and the live episode of 24 in Manchester! Adios :)

posted by Arvind @ 11:31 PM