A Night on the Thames
Today was more of a chillax day. I was a little jet-lagged and spent from last night so I decided to sleep in and have a leisurely day. We woke up late morning and hit the town. Darcel had to take care of some passport business at the South African Embassy (she was born in South Africa and moved to England eight years ago). While she was taking care of business, I hung out in the Trafalgar/Leicester Square areas. I sat in a cafe and sipped a machiatto while reading for bit just taking in the surroundings. I must admit, my overall impression of London has definitely changed. It actually is a pretty swinging city.
After the cafe, I went to the National Portrait Museum which is a beautiful building in Trafalgar Square. Inside was pretty interesting too although portrait paintings aren't really my bag, baby.
When I met up with Darcel again we were trying to plan for the night ahead. We went to SoHo in search of tickets to a South African comic, but alas, tickets were sold out. We decided to get tickets to an unknown comic which we got at 2 for the price of 1 and all it cost us is a fiver.
Still jet lagged, we went back to her place and I took a nap before the comedy show.
The comedy show was a lot of fun. It was a one man show where he spent the first half of the show just making cracks at the audience. He tore into Darcel about her South African accent pretty brutally that I couldn't stop laughing. He next moved on to me about being an American and also eating fast food(which I will never understand). Do I look like I eat fast food?
After the show, we walked around London at night which is a much different, and in my opinion, much better sight. I led us through(by this time I had already oriented myself with the city) a nice walk by the parliament building and big ben as well as the aquarium across the Themes river, past the London Eye and back to Leicester square. Quite a magificent site.
We caught the tube back to Wood Green, ate some falafels and called it a night. Cheers!
Labels: comedy, Thames river
