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De Montfort Hall gig, December 5th 2006.
Mobile wallpapers from show available if you
text KASABIAN to 87070 (no charge unless you
decide to buy). UK only.
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Durée : 94 s |
| London 2008 - Leicester Square, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus |
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Finally I succeeded getting to London after
my one day delay in Salzburg. After arriving
late on May 9, 2008, I got a good night's
sleep at the Zetter Hotel, a hip boutique
hotel in the Clerkenwell area. The next day,
after a delicious breakfast, my travel
partner Andrea and I got going early to start
our discoveries. We walked past historic
medieval St. John's Gate and admired the
Victorian era Smithfield Market. From here I
took my first ride on the Tube (London's
famous subway system) to the historic St.
Pancras Railway Station which is now the
terminal for the Eurostar Trains, connecting
London with the Continent. We then walked
over to neighbourhing King's Cross Railway
Station where we checked out Platform 9 3/4
of Harry Potter fame.
Our next destination was the Portobello
Market, an ecclectic mix of fresh vegetables,
fruit, baked goods, enticing aromas from all
sorts of delicious freshly made street food,
funky clothes, furs and antiques. After our
interview with Michael Williams, one of the
organizers of the Notting Hill Carnival (a
Caribbean-style carnival and Europe's biggest
street party) we walked through the serene
streets of Notting Hill and Kensington before
we embarked on a brief tour of Little Beirut,
a heavily middle-Eastern influenced area on
Edgeware Road.
A tube ride later we arrived at Hyde Park
Corner where to my disappointment nobody was
giving any speeches or ranting about
anything. Only two older gentlemen were
sitting on two soap boxes and taking a rest,
maybe exhausted from an earlier discourse.
After a brief stroll through Hyde Park, which
was full on sun worshippers, we tubed it to
London's Financial District where we checked
out various classicist bank and stock
exchange buildings, the stunning Victorian
era Leadenhall Market, the Lloyds Building, a
postmodernist masterpiece by Richard Rogers,
which has all the piping on the outside, and
the Gherkin, the famous cucumber shaped Swiss
Re building. Our walk continued to another
historic train station: the Liverpool Street
Railway Station from where we took a train to
Walthamstow Village to do an interview with
the owner of Eat 17, a restaurant and deli
that serves really cool waffles (among many
other things), where I had a supremely
delicious spinach risotto.
Our final stop for the day was a walk around
Leiceister Square that included London's
Theatre District, Chinatown and hustling and
bustling Piccadilly Square. I simply couldn't
believe how packed the streets of London's
entertainment area were, we could hardly
walk...
Tags : England London Leicester Square Chinatown Piccadilly Circus Zetter Hotel |
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Affichage : 487
Durée : 143 s |
| London 2008 - Leicester Square, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus |
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Finally I succeeded getting to London after
my one day delay in Salzburg. After arriving
late on May 9, 2008, I got a good night's
sleep at the Zetter Hotel, a hip boutique
hotel in the Clerkenwell area. The next day,
after a delicious breakfast, my travel
partner Andrea and I got going early to start
our discoveries. We walked past historic
medieval St. John's Gate and admired the
Victorian era Smithfield Market. From here I
took my first ride on the Tube (London's
famous subway system) to the historic St.
Pancras Railway Station which is now the
terminal for the Eurostar Trains, connecting
London with the Continent. We then walked
over to neighbourhing King's Cross Railway
Station where we checked out Platform 9 3/4
of Harry Potter fame.
Our next destination was the Portobello
Market, an ecclectic mix of fresh vegetables,
fruit, baked goods, enticing aromas from all
sorts of delicious freshly made street food,
funky clothes, furs and antiques. After our
interview with Michael Williams, one of the
organizers of the Notting Hill Carnival (a
Caribbean-style carnival and Europe's biggest
street party) we walked through the serene
streets of Notting Hill and Kensington before
we embarked on a brief tour of Little Beirut,
a heavily middle-Eastern influenced area on
Edgeware Road.
A tube ride later we arrived at Hyde Park
Corner where to my disappointment nobody was
giving any speeches or ranting about
anything. Only two older gentlemen were
sitting on two soap boxes and taking a rest,
maybe exhausted from an earlier discourse.
After a brief stroll through Hyde Park, which
was full on sun worshippers, we tubed it to
London's Financial District where we checked
out various classicist bank and stock
exchange buildings, the stunning Victorian
era Leadenhall Market, the Lloyds Building, a
postmodernist masterpiece by Richard Rogers,
which has all the piping on the outside, and
the Gherkin, the famous cucumber shaped Swiss
Re building. Our walk continued to another
historic train station: the Liverpool Street
Railway Station from where we took a train to
Walthamstow Village to do an interview with
the owner of Eat 17, a restaurant and deli
that serves really cool waffles (among many
other things), where I had a supremely
delicious spinach risotto.
Our final stop for the day was a walk around
Leiceister Square that included London's
Theatre District, Chinatown and hustling and
bustling Piccadilly Square. I simply couldn't
believe how packed the streets of London's
entertainment area were, we could hardly
walk...
Tags : England London Leicester Square Chinatown Piccadilly Circus Zetter Hotel |
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