Walkin like Walken

So we’ve been getting round a wee bit, our unlimited travel cards got well used in the week we had them.  We’ve been trying to use the bus more than the tube too, so we get an idea of where we are actually travelling when we go somewhere. A handy hint that the lady at britbound told us, wow what great value getting that was. Anyway, so they have these looong bendy buses here, they look funny compared to the other option which is a double decker. Boring.

Sam had his interview on Friday, things went really well, and they’re going to get back to him, so fingers crossed all that works out. His interview was right by the Tate Modern art gallery, which is a big converted power station, so afterwards we went there. Via the millennium bridge, oo yeah, who remembers that one time we watched HP and I said I was gunna go there and take a photo? Well here it is:

WooHoo. Later that evening the movie screening at the Heygate Estate was on (that's the big empty thing I mentioned a few days ago, with the gardening happening there) so we went over just as it got dark and right in time. When we get settled in with our beers and cider, with a sweet viewing spot, the guy who’s putting it on says a few words, including sorry we couldn't get the movie (Attack the block, which looks quite funny – alien invasion + derelict building + London teens) but don’t worry, they have another movie that has a bit that was filmed at Heygate also. Starring Matt Damon. As a psychic. Doing cooking classes. Oh dear. I would probably watch it in a different setting, but we went there for alien invasion, not blindfolds and taste testing. So we left Sam and Guy there and went home to watch HP and the half blood prince, WOOOOOOOOOOOOO, and it was cool seeing all the Londony bits in it, specially the millennium bridge with St Pauls and the Tate Modern at either end, cos I’d been there that day.

The next day we are all off on an exhibition seeing mission, first stop is White Cube, with art from Jake and Dinos Chapman. Here is a crazy ass collection of skeletal black Nazi mannequins, childrens join the dot colouring in books with different drawings between the dots, and some...i dunno, cardboard things. You weren’t allowed to take photos but you can see some >HERE<. It was pretty awesome. Then we went to a place called Scream to see some street art stuff. Then we go to this little pub that looks lonely as it has its own block and is all tall and thin and long. Then we are off to the Notting Hill Arts Club, which is a bar, random as hell, its 6pm but when we get down there it feels like about 11pm, its dark, theres loud loud music, lots of people. Wtf. But fair enough. We don't stay there too long, as we have a date with a certain PART 2 later on. And by later I mean 3am later. But I also mean 3D biggest IMAX in Britain too. Before we go, we being me, Sophie, Guy and Simon, as Sam is busy getting rowdy elsewhere, we watch part 1 then have a nap, before we get up at 2.15am and get the bus down to the cinema. Yes, it was early. But it was Harry. And it was an experience. Anyway, the movie was

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 not even gonna go there with tryna get something that makes sense out of my...brain/fingers. But weird as hell coming out of the cinema at 5.30am in daytime and walking home. A surprisingly small number of drunkards out. More people coming from the packed cinema harhar. 

When we got back guy went for a bike ride, talk about stamina, but rain was forecast for later on in the day so I guess it was smart, and its not like I ended up sleeping for ages anyway! Going to sleep at 7am when you haven’t been out drinking and partying is quite difficult. Until I read myself to sleep. While I was on holiday, I read 11 books. 11. That's insane. We did do a lot of travelling, then a bit of relaxing, so books are a very must I reckon, even though I was only travelling for 5 weeks. They were easy to read fiction things, but long flights and long bus rides need something for my eyes to do. Watching movies and things is good but square eyes isn't...But oh man HP has finished! Oh no!  OH! NO!  

And today I went to this place called Primark, its a giant department store for cheap as hell clothes and shoes etc. I wanted a plain black hoody, they had none. They did, however, have about 70,000 people inside. Cray-zeee as. It was like someone had announced there was free clothes if you found them, there was SO many people. People had bought empty suitcases so when they had bought all their things they could put them in and wheel them away. People were trying things on everywhere, in front of any reflective surface they could find, as the line for the changing rooms were a hundred people long, and everyone had at least 2 of the giant shopping baskets they provide to fill with they things they want. I saw people grabbing things they hadn’t even looked at, just grab one of each, into the bag, walk to the next section. Then sit in the corner near the mirror, put the things they didn’t want on the ground in a pile, off hangers, then walk off. Weird experience.