Our first day in London and we got up and walked across the river to parliament from where our hotel is located. We
walked up to Trafalgar sq and Piccadilly circus. we called into Virgin and HMV to pick up a few cds that you cant get back at home.

By this time it was about lunch time so we decided that being English it would be either a pie and chips with a pint or bangers and mash with a pint. We visited a few pubs until we found a pub with that did meals. At the champion we ordered a couple of pints and something called ‘toad in the hole’, this was like a pie with bangers and mash and gravy in the middle, this was very tasty and also met our British cuisine requirements. After this tasty feast we had a bit more of a walk around and visited Maplin electronics (a kind of English Jaycar) Gary picked up a USB controlled pcb that can control 8 relay outputs from visual basic and is quite excited his home automation project will once again gain some momentum, Rocky bought one too putting a lot of faith in Gary’s rusty visual basic skills hoping to automate his backyard beergarden.

A few more pints and we ran into a good protest in Trafalgar square where the Congonese were complaining about Tony £&#€ing Blair…with hundreds of coppers, it was a bit of fun. Grabbed a feed at a buffet Thai cafe and continued our walking tour of London.

Back to the hotel for a refresh the down to the local, well actually the one down from that the local looked a bit scary.

Not happy with British beer its crap it tastes milky which gives it a stale warm feel though it is chilled to our liking. Stella, fosters 1644 are all crap too…must have had it too good on the continent where it was crisp, so we just had to keep trying different ones, and there are some unusual ones, some even hand pumped into the glass.