Stu and Carol Go Mad in Scotland: London part 2

Tuesday - Carol ventured out (on her own) and navigated the subway system to catch up with Kirsty in the morning (to look at wedding dresses), while I had an appointment to set up our bank account.

We met up with Cookie at Piccadilly Circus for lunch and then went for a wander (through hyde park - past the ANZAC memorial) over to Harrods. A couple of chocolates and a brownie was the sum of our purchases there - it was all we could afford. We saw the Diana and Dodi tribute and Cookie found the most expensive watch - 145,000 pounds.

We followed that up with a visit to the Hawleys a five storey toy store on Oxford Street. Got our picture taken with a huge teddy bear and I looked downstairs to see how much a Nintendo Wii would cost (will have to wait till I'm earning pounds).

Last stop of the day was to buy me a suit - we had looked at a few on tuesday and found a place that was a having a half price sale - the suit I got was 150 pounds in the end - looks pretty nice - hopefully it will score me a job.

Chris and Danella cooked us dinner at their place that night peking duck and BBQ pork - yum.

For our last day in London we are going to catch a matinee of one of the shows playing in West End (Lion King, Le Mis, or The Blue Man Group), apparently you can just turn up at the ticket office and can sometimes pick up cheap seats (ticket prices usually range from 50-70 pounds for a matinee). Bevan is trying to organize a dinner at an Italian restaurant near where we are staying – good last chance to catch up with everyone before we get the train up to Scotland.

Starting to get pretty excited about getting to Edinburgh – and settling in (it will be nice to stay somewhere for longer than a week). But, have also started to think about where we would like to go to next (for a holiday), both of us would like to go back to Paris and Rome and explore a bit more – Iceland, Prague, Berlin, and Spain are pretty high on our lists as well.

On another note - we are trying to get a couple of tickets to the New Zealand Vs Scotland world cup game in September (rugby), sounds like it will be a lot of fun and its being played in Murrayfield (Edinburgh).