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Monday, Dec 18, 2006

Meeting a Channuck

David Murray
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pub, but it has now gone down the no smoking route. It is really strange being in a British pub with nobody smoking !!! Quite a few beers later, we moved on towards Victoria, jumped on a tube and went to Tower Hill. The plan was to hit the Jack the Ripper Walking tour, but, and there always is a but, we had drunk to much so we were late and we missed it. We went back to Embankment and walked up to Covent Garden. Realising that Susie was homesick, I did the only thing that was possible, I took her to the Maple Leaf. The only Canadian pub in London. Susie fed me one her local beers. Truthfully, it wasn't very nice, so after we finished, we went next door to a classier joint, the Walk-a-bout !!! I forced a Fosters onto her, as this is as bad as Aussie beer can be. We had a quick pint and moved on again.

It was now getting quite late, so we made our way down to the Strand and walked through Admiralty Arch and along the Mall. We had a quick walk down to the Horse Guards Square where the Trooping of the Colours takes place every year. Into St James Park we went. The lights from the city were quite amazing, so I gave Susie my camera and she went crazy, shooting at trees, the London Eye and whatever else was lit up. We walked through and ended up at Buckingham Palace. Years ago, the gates use to be open and we use to get blind and ride home on our pushies and stop and talk to the guards. The gates are now all locked up. It doesn't happen anymore. Quite amazing what a little bit of terrorism can do for you !!! At the end of the road, we entered the centre of Grosvenor round-a-bout. Recently, the NZ Government had opened up their version of their ANZAC memorial. Very different to the Australian one. I left Susie shoting at it and also at the Wellington Arch. I walked down to the Australian ANZAC memorial. I have found Turramurra before (where my Mum lives), but as the light was crap, I had no chance. I did spend plenty of time, because Susie was having a ball. Give the girl a camera, and it keeps her quiet and you alone, to take moments like this in. Eventually, she did drag me away. We walked into Hyde Park, Susie asking if we would get mugged !!! And out the otherside, back to the Albert Hall and Memorial. It was getting late, it was nearly 23:00, and we were both dieing. We walked onto Gloucester Road, where we jumped onto a tube and we said our goodbyes

It was good to meet up with someone who you have been speaking to on the internet. It was the second week in a row where I had met someone from Travelpod, and it is always good to put a voice and face to a name. Now I only have another couple hundred more to meet !!!