Farewell London Argyll Arms

I have decided to just let you browse through all the fun pics from my farewell drinks evening. Not many stories to tell really we just drank and got merry. Mireille and Alvin hiding behind menus.
Mireille picking up the barman/waiter.
Me looking gorgeous ;)
Me. Alvin
Mireille
Alvin
Ant and Kat drove all the way from Newbury, thanks again guys.
Kat, me
The beer thingy said Yule Fuel thought it was cute.
Ant, Kat, Me, Mireille, Alvin

London Dungeon Oxford Street

Finally made it to the London Dungeon - finding out all about the traumatic history of London, horror stories and more horror stories. I managed to snap a couple of pics but in the end it is very dark throughout so the pics are not all that great.

My favourite part of it all was the demonstration of all the torture instruments. The best being this little cage - I want one for Christmas and it can stand at the back of my classroom. Great way to keep the kids under control me thinks. Might need more than one though. We also snuck in for a haircut by Sweeney Todd himself but luckily he was caught before he had a chance to turn us into meat pie filling.

After our morning at the London Dungeon, we madce our way to Oxford street to do a bit of shopping. The Christams lights in Oxford street are beautiful so took pics of some of them.

Calais

Daytrip to Calais and oh what alot to learn. My first lesson was that there is not much to see in Calais. Unfortunately I did not realise but the trip to Calais is basically a trip to a very big shopping centre. What makes it worse is this shopping centre seems to be in the middle of space - I don't mean outer space I just mean space.


It is still a pretty cool shopping centre though. The second lesson I learned is that it seems this long journey that I made to do some shopping for a day in France seems to be a normal Christmas time adventure for most English people. It was like being in London but in France - MADNESS. I even bumped into one of the girls from school.

As I said earlier it is a nice shopping centre and if I were a parent I would go there just so that my kids had something to do while I got on with the shopping. Had they had loads of Christmas entertainment for the little 'uns.

After I had finished all that I wanted to do I took a stroll through the supermarket to see what I could see and I noticed that all the employees rolled around on rollerskates. I also noticed that they had a very large selection of Fanta. These may be strange things to notice and even stranger things to take pictures of, but the truth is I was desperate to find things to photograph. I got on the bus in the morning and soon relaised that I had left my camera at home. How dumb can a person be - go touring without a camera. No problems, I decided to buy a disposable camera on the ferry. You can imagine after making the effort to buy a disposable and relising I was just going to a shopping centre. Understand my desperation?

Last lesson I learned for the day - the ferry's are a bad option in miserable weather. We got to the docks only to discover that they had been closed for ages and we had to wait for the Dover ports to be opened again. Apparently the winds were really bad we finally borded at 11 pm or something crazy and I only got home at 3 am in the morning.

In the end even though it was a disappointing trip I still gained alot out of it including cute little Christmas decorations.