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20 April Weekend trip to York & LeedsIt was my birthday on April 11 and I've invited many of my friends to a pizzeria at Angel. I was glad to see quite a few of my friends showing up. We made a group of 12 and got an interesting deal, which was all-u-can-eat pizza and given the quality of local pizza, I couldn't see anything wrong with that kind'a deal. Apart maybe from me getting fat, but that could be sorted later ;o)) ...
Yeah, we all ate a lloooottttt .... That pizzeria measures servings by meters of pizza and I guess we each ate a meter each, which was crazy! But yeah, I had problems strolling back. The good thing about Italian pizza is though, that unlike for instance the Pizza Hut pizza, this is a way lighter food, so it doesn't sit at the bottom of your stomach like a stone ;o)) ...
I couldn't stay long with my friends unfortunately as we had a trip planned for early Saturday morning. That was a trip to York, which I had heard from many people was a place to see and given it's distance from London, I was glad to have Flavia agree to the plan of giving this a weekend. So we did as planned and left on Saturday early morning and I headed for a 200 mile trip.
We got to York alright. The parking was a bit of shock when I learnt we were to pay 10GBP for the day, but well - apparently the place was popular, so such a charge could be levied. Then we headed into the narrow historical streets of the town, which was really nice. I love these places with a character. There were people everywhere and soon we made our way to the York Minster, where everyone else was heading too ;o)) ... It's a huge building with a nice relaxing garden. Further on we headed towards the town walls that one can walk on free of charge and basically round up the whole city walking like this. That I found especially exciting, as it gave many oportunities to take some photos. Flavia had a good idea to have lunch in one of the local pubs. First it was fairly cheap and second it was surprisingly good :oP ....
In the evening we left York to find our accommodation in Leeds where I had booked a Marriott room using my membership points ;o)) ... The guys upgraded us to an Exec room (we got some fruits and a night gown, etc.) ... I could also use my Marriott Gold card to access the Exec Lounge where free coffee and non-alcoholic drinks and cookies can be found. Flavia made sure there were hardly any cookies left after we left the place, hehe ... And yes, I love Marriott rooms ... they stood up to the expectations .... it was a very pleasant stay ...
On Sunday afternoon we vacated the hotel and cruised shortly through the center of Leeds, which is probably not a typical tourist destination. The shopping galleries were alright and shortly after that we walked down to the Royal Armoury. The place has quite a huge collection of armoury, but once you have seen your hundredth armoury, you feel like you'd given this piece of weaponry enough time in the day and wanna move on ... and so we did ...
It was time to head back down to London and our weekend trip was over. I've just posted a few pics to visually accompany this story, so check it out .... 01 April The 'Dover Trip' weekendThe weekend in mid March started quite intensely right on Friday evening when my friend David returned to London for the weekend and organized a night out with our other buddies from work. The restaurant we picked for this occassion was nothing great - Chiquitos at Leicester Sq (very much overpriced for what the quantity and quality you get - speaking about quality, get ready for no taste and inconsistency what-so-ever ;o)) ... I brought Flavia over with me. We expected an attendance of three ladies, but only two popped up, but still better than usual, hehe ... After Chiquitos we set out for a club. There's one just nextdoor called Ruby Blue. There we paid another £10 entry fee each. The bar wasn't bad, but I was already quite tired when we got there and didn't intend to stay too long. Unfortunately I have neither managed to chat to Dave properly, who's now travelling around the world again, so our talk will need to wait a few more months. Flavia and I headed home around 1.30 am both pretty much knackered. The fun bit was that we had already planned a day trip to Dover for basically the same day, hoping to leave early, but that somehow didn't happen. And, in fact, it could never worked out with us going to sleep at 3am anyway ;o)) ... Although we were leaving well after midday, we still got out of the house and headed for Dover, which we reached shortly after 3 (the Dover Castle was to close at 4!!!). That didn't give us way too much time to wander around the place. This was Flavia's and mine first trip outside of London and fortunately we found out we both really enjoy taking photos and checking out places like this, so it was really fun ... I only wish we had had more time to spend there ... I'll upload a few pics on my blog, so that you can see what we saw ;o)) ... After Dover we left for Cantebury for a nice evening walk and possibly some food. We were quite lucky as the Cathedral ground was open and we could enter the property without paying. Last time I was in Cantebury the entry fee was around £8 that I refused to pay ... We didn't get to eat in Cantebury as plans changed last minute and we decided to hit O'Neill's that night, so we had to rush back to London to get ready ... We made it to Soho alright, but never got to O'Neill's. The place was packed!!!! Instead then I brought Flavia over to Yates, which was a weak substitute for live rock music, but yet, we did have some fun dancing around. The day had been long though, so we left around 1am and headed back home ... |
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