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30. november - 6. december 2001

London

Henning Nielsen
2005-09-21 18:53:37

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Friday, november 30'th

698 dkr for a returnticket from Billund to London. Thats ridiculous. Let's go.....

Leaving Billund at 5.20 pm. 1? hour then your are in Gatwick. Find a train, and another half our to Victoria. A few hundred meters walk - and you are in a different world - namely my hotel Georgian House Hotel

I spend the evening by taking a closer look at the local area - and a late dinner at a local kebab.

Saturday, december 1'st

It's raining this morning, so it's a good day for a museum. I get my weekend-travelcard, and take the tube to South Kensington and the Science Museum. There is a free entry to this huge museum. You have to choose the things you want to see. I choose the airspace-division - among others an Apollo 10 capsule, a department with old photo-stuff, and finally an exhibition that opens today with a lot of very nice Alfa Romeos. At this exhibition there is free champagne - but of course - since Im such a reserved person - I dont ask for a glas.

I spend 3 hours at the Science Museum before going south-east. First its the tube to London Bridge. From there a train to Charlton, at the eastern part of London on the southside of the Thames.

Here you find Charlton Athletic Football Club, and an e-mail request has resulted in, that a very nice man at the club has put away a ticket for me, for the homegame against Newcastle United. Actually the match was sold out, but when asking if that meant that I had to go to a 3. divisionmatch at Leyton Orient instead, they actually found a ticket for me.

My 25 ? ticket gives admission to South Stand, very close to a few thousand singing Newcastle-supportes. They were peaceful enough - but just in case - a line of security-guards were in between "home" and "away".

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