August 11 & 12

Over these two days Andrew & I headed into London to do our very own Monopoly Board walking tour. As all the streets are not in order and it would have taken us days to finish it we did the walk by the quickest available route. I purchassed a 1 week transport pass for 28 quid and we took the underground to Elephant & Castle train station, jumped on a bus and headed down to Old Kent Road. After walking for ages we finally found the "Old Kent Road" road sign. We then headed to Fenchurch Street Station and came across Vine street on the way. We headed down to Fenchurch Street Station and then headed down to the Tower Bridge to meet up with Justin. We headed to a local for lunch where I ordered a large bangers and mash and ended up with about 8 sausages, potato and gravy. We then headed to White Chapel Road, Liverpool Street Station, Angel Islington, Pentonville Road, Kings Cross Station, Euston Road, Marylebone Station, Oxford street, Park Lane & Mayfair. On our way through Mayfair we encountered an unbelieveble amount of Aston Martons, Porsches, Ferarris etc. We also popped into a very expensive store for a quick look around as there were a couple of elephants in the window which had taken our attention. The Gentleman in the store explained that the elephants where made in 1880 by a mint company and the pair where worth 6.5 Million pounds. He then took us to see a chandalier worth 650,000 pound and a small statute worth 1.25 million pounds. He was a top bloke as he got all the assistants for the different areas to come and tell us what each piece was worth and all the details of it. Somehow in between all this I managed to loose my 1 week train pass and also a 1 day pass which I bought to replace it. We then headed off to meet up with Finlay and headed back to Jane VK's place for a game of Monopoly.

The next day Andrew, Justin, Jeremy & I headed back to Hughs so we could change and freshen up. We then continued our Monopoly Board walk around the city. After arriving in Westminister Station we headed to Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street, Pall Mall, White Hall... where I got a picture of the Florence Nightingale Statute, and continued on to Whitehall, Northumberland Ave, The Strand and Trafalgar Square. This is about were we stopped and all got indivdual caricatures drawn.
Then after a slice of Italian pizza we headed on and went to Leicester Square, Bow street, Coventry Street, Bond Street and to finish it all off... Marlborough Street. We had a quick dinner at a local and headed off to church. After church we all headed back to a Kiwi burger place called GBK's for a real dinner. It took way longer then I thought it would to do the Monopoly Board, but all in all... Fun!