I HEART LONDON

Ahh London. It's an epic place. History, Architecture, shopping, and more indians than you can shake a stick at.
Okay so people want to know about how my meet with Darth went. This goes from when I first arrived at KGX.

It didn't seem that long ago that I was at KGX, however, delving back into my history, the last time I was there was in August of 07. I figured with the completion of the St Pancras terminal, there wouldn't be any work done nearby for a while. Oh how wrong I was. The layout of the station was completely changed. I arrived at 12:04 on Platform 9. I couldn't see the rest of the station, like the concourse or anything, so that worried me a bit. Nevertheless I made my way to what I thought was the concourse but was actually just a bit that jutts out from the rest of the platforms (Platform 0-8 - Yes there is a fucking Platform 0, No I dunno why it's there.). Walking from my train to the concourse took an unrealistically long time - I think I forgot how far it was. As I walk to the concourse, I sit down and check my phone. Lo and behold I missed 2 calls from Darth.

I was in the middle of texting him telling him I arrived, when he calls me. Due to my odd way of answering calls, Darth originally mistook me for a woman :V
He says he's gonna be 20 minutes late for whatever reason, and told me to meet him at the taxi rank at kings cross, so I go there and wait. About 15/20 mins later, he calls me again asking where I am. I said I was at the KGX taxi ranks (at the time I was unaware there was 3 others. One between KGX and St Pancras, one on the side of KGX (where I was), and one on the very far end of st pancras. I spoke to D's Chauffer who said he was near the clock tower area, and gave me directions. I didn't know the St Pancras side of KGX, so I was a little lost.

Eventually I managed to meet up with D and his driver, and I was pretty suprised when D offered me a ride in the car - a 2009 Jag, all the trimmings. Was lush - Leather seats, aircon, GPS, oh and the legroom in the back was just astounding. So, we're on our way to the London Eye, passing through Russel Square (the scene of the bus explosion on 7/7), Aldwych, passing the old tram tunnel (london used to have trams) and over Waterloo Bridge. The driver said to prepare for the best view in london... I was not suprised as to why he said that. Going over waterloo bridge, on the right, you have the London Eye, Parliament, and several other things, while on the other side, you got St Pauls, Docklands, London bridge and other things. It really is an epic sight to see - just look at the pics from google earth.

Side note - I fail at keeping my blog up to date :3

  So yeah, wel pull up not far from the end of the waterloo platforms, on Leake st. Darth tipped our driver (who had a thick london accent which I thought was awesome), and we made our way to the London Eye, but not before being stopped by some eastern european guy, who neither of us understood. I think he wanted directions, but to where is anyones guess. We walk across a street or 2 and make our way to the eye itself. We were taken aback by the queues, and estimated it would have been at least a 2 hour long wait. We weren't too keen on it, and we were wondering what the fuck do we do now - we never anticipated queues to be that long. Are a bit of debating, we figured it wasn't worth the queue or the price of fast track, or the weather for that matter, which was grey, cloudy, and drizzly.

We decided to go to waterloo station and take the tube to Oxford Circus, then Marble Arch. Only problem is that we didn't know where the entrance of the station was. Still, since I played alot of The Getaway + Black Monday on the PS2, I knew the major roads (kinda.), and I knew I had to head towards the IMAX theater. On the way there, we visited a CostCutter store to get myself a drink. This was basically Darth's first experience of a "Corner Store". He commented on how it's run by indians/pakistani's etc. I told him that's just how britain is.

Once we got to waterloo station, we kinda got a bit lost, and confused by an elevator. There's a glass encased elevator out the front of waterloo, which has a sign on it which says "Elevator to Subway" - We both assumed that took you to the london underground... Oh how wrong we were. When it got to the bottom, we got out, and saw another sign that said "London Underground" and an arro next to it point diagonally up-right - next to a set of stairs WHICH LEAD TO WHERE WE JUST CAME FROM. We both WTF'd, facepalmed, and BAWWWWed as we climbed more stairs, AND EVEN MORE STAIRS INTO THE MAIN ENTRANCE. My legs. Hnnnng.