Thursday, October 13, 2005

Scotties in Town!


So this weekend, we had the lucky chance to spend the weekend with scottie....

Friday, Lisa and me headed to Chicos pad to hang out and wait for the boston-ite to arrive...

Friday night we went to an indian restaurant on Elgin Avenue. Considering we were the only ones in the restauratnt the entire time we were there, the food was surprisingly good. Followed this up with Chico taking us to a pub near by. Never thought i'd be going to Chico for advice on pubs to go out to.

Sat started out with baskie for me and Chico. Again, I was pretty buggered by the end of it - 2 hours inside a pretty hot gym. Feet were wrecked, but glad that I got to run around. Gave lisa a call and we met up with her at Nandos for lunch. The afternoon, we decided to go see Serenity - wanted to compare it to the 90% version we saw back home. It was just as good the 2nd time round, if not better! and i'm glad that Chico loved it too. Will try and copy the episodes I have on DIVX to DVD for him.

Sat night, we met up with Ev & Al - it was Al's farewell, which is a shame that he was heading back home... fitty expensive bar in SOHO. Round of drinks (for 3 people) cost 18 pounds!! guess we were paying for the atmosphere. got relatively drunk, and when the place was closing, the boys knew of a club called egg which was near kings cross station - so we all jumped into a fairly amusing mini cab.




Sunday, scottie headed back to Boston, and Lisa, Chico and me decided to do a bit of sight seeing, and check out the london eye.

Friday, October 07, 2005

Madam Tussauds

it wouldn't be a trip to the famous wax musuem without some funny photos taken.

Al & Jamie Alfred Hitchcock gives Lisa a fright

Who wouldn't resist an evening with big George...

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Travel Diary for Scotland (Sept 19th-21st)

Tuesday Sept 20th
5am arrive in Heathrow Airport
7am Leave Heathrow for Glasgow Airport
8.30am arrive in Glasgow Airport
12pm head out to Hansel tea house for tea and scones with Edith & George then off to Ayr to view the sea town down south.


Karen & Phil come over at night, but Al is well and truely asleep by this stage

Wednesday Sept 21st
Off to Stirling via Falkirk Wheel
The falkirk wheel is based in Falkirk (no surprises there), and moves boats from one waterway to another.

We then visited the Wallace Monument in Stirling (statue to the right which appears at the bottom of the Wallace Monument), followed by a tour through Stirling Castle.

More of Lisa's family arrived on wednesday night to Edith & George's. We had David, Kim and their baby (they are based in Milton Keyne's), Paul & Monica (from South Africa), as well as Sandra (Edith and Mary's sister), along with Phil & Karen who we had met the previous night.

David & Kim Monica & Paul

Phil & Karen