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(*Giggle* Nick's got this new (gay alert) fabulous MONSTER Dell PC, I'm so jealous of him, lol! Unused to the keyboard layout though, so typing's a little awkward.)
It all went without a hitch. I didn't miss the plane, it arrived on time, I had Nick's instructions on which trains and subway lines and stuff to take to get to central Wimbledon.
The plane ride was very nice. Even waiting in the departure area at the airport was very nice. Why it was very nice? Eye candy! I had this awesome almost platinum blonde cutie right in front of me, I later found out on the plane when they bought train tickets for central London that he's fourteen, but I couldn't have guessed that myself. He's definitely not shaving yet!  Across the room sat a dude in his early 20s, he was reeeally cute too with darker, short and kinda tufty hair, and right behind Platinum Blonde was a boy from the Indian sub-continent. He was just beautiful, but unfortunately sat with his back turned most of the time.
How I came to know Platinum Blonde's age? He and his mom sat next to me on the plane!  I sneaked a few peeks of him I must admit. Oh, by the way... This young Swedish girl sat in the row behind me, and amongst the first things she said was, "don't barf now!", to someone else. "And, not you either!", to a third person. Heheh! Later, when we came in to land at London Stanstead, she giggled lots because her tummy felt so funny when the plane bounced unexpectedly on the air currents and such... Was fun!
When I finally got to Wimbledon, I called Nick, he came in his car to pick me up. That's when I screwed up; this trip's one and only glitch I hope. I stood there waiting at the Centrecourt (named after the tennis thingy; main entrance to the station), when I was actually supposed to stand at the Forecourt! Anyway, we solved that, and I got my luggage dropped off at his place.
Nick had to go off to work again, so I took the train back to the center of Wimbledon. I had seen some shops I wanted to check out, and I had a couple hours to kill. I looked at a belt carrying-case for my cell phone, and a cordless Bluetooth headset and some games and stuff. I'm thinking of getting a Gameboy Advance SP, and an Eyetoy and network adapter for my PS2 console.
I decided to walk back to Nick's place, it's just one stop along the train line so that shouldn't be too difficult I thought. It pained me a little to leave the center area because it was FULL OF HOTTTTT GUYS, but I wanted to look at a park with a lake Nick had told me about. The weather's absolutely fabulous, I've seen a ton of shirtless hotties today! It was rainy in Gothenburg, but here I'm literally melting away! Nick said it was 100 degrees F the other day, the highest ever measured.
Anyway, the walk to the park wasn't too long, and not too exciting either, just rows and rows of those small English semi-detached houses (all built out of brown bricks, hehe). The park was much nicer, first thing I noticed was a little wee girlie in pink sitting on top of a short stone pillar, weeping. She had scratched one of her knees and was weeping in that way kids do when they aren't really hurt, they just want someone to fuss over them and comfort them. Her mother (who was there with another female friend, also with a kid) smiled at me in an apologetic manner, but really, it wasn't so bad. The girl wasn't loud and noisy, she just wanted some attention (it was a tiny little scratch).
I continued on, first was a kids' playground with a pool that was about as deep as halfway up to my calves I suppose (I steered clear of it because a father and his kids were tossing small buckets of water at each other whilst making a lot more noise than that little girl. Lots of tennis courts followed, then came the real lake. It was fair-sized, a couple hundred meters long and a bit less across. A foot-path led along one side, where mothers and small kids stuffed various water-fowl full of white bread. The geese were quite brash, one or two came up out of the water, and they were almost as tall as the toddlers feeding them, making their mothers become a bit cautious you might say!
"Just give it the bread!", one mother nervously instructed her small son as the big thing came closer. That same kid hurled almost a whole slice of bread at a swan, barely missing it! Not that the kid meant anything by it, he was just so enthusiastic with his task.
A bit further ahead was a short cement pier, off of which several youths were bathing from. Well, youths... Hm. I dunno, none of them could have been as much as a week older than Platinum Blonde! I tell you, I would NEVER have stuck as much as a toe in that water, not with all those birds fouling it. Yuuuck! Anyway, the guys were certainly worthy of some attention, and they bathed in their underwear!
It's nice when the weather's fine, isn't it?
After that, it was mostly a long walk back to Nick's apartement. I saw a French babe with a washboard stomach finishing up playing tennis after he and friends had practiced or whatever, but not that much else happened really. When I came back to the entrance of the park, a mother was threatening her tiny daughter with a smacking if she didn't quiet down. YUCK! Child abuse's legal in Britain, anyone who raises a hand at a child should have it cut off I say, or at least have ten times the pain inflicted upon oneself!
Then a mother came carrying a small sad boy to a waiting ambulance. He had an arm in a crude sling, and was followed by the rest of the family. He was upset, yet behaved in a rather dignified fashion.
I proceeded back to Nick's place (just a couple hundred meters), and then had a nap because the day had been long and exhausting.
Ok. Done. One LennyWalk post down, several more to go I wager. Tomorrow me and Nick will go see Patrick Stewart perform on stage so I will tell you all about that too of course!
{{{Hugs}}} for everyone.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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First Post From London!
By: lenny on Thu, 14 August 2003 19:19 |
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Re: First Post From London!
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Re: First Post From London!
By: Guest on Thu, 14 August 2003 20:02 |
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Re: First Post From London!
By: timmy on Thu, 14 August 2003 20:04 |
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Oh, just fine I guess!
By: lenny on Thu, 14 August 2003 22:54 |
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Cool!
By: e on Thu, 14 August 2003 21:21 |
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Lenny Does London :>
By: smith on Fri, 15 August 2003 01:45 |
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LOTS happened today. Need sweepies first, will tell later...
By: lenny on Fri, 15 August 2003 23:17 |
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Happy for you and a bit jealous - enjoy the trip!
By: trevor on Sat, 16 August 2003 04:50 |
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Day Two - Hangin' with Captain Picard...
By: lenny on Sat, 16 August 2003 09:44 |
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Lenny's said it all
By: nick on Sat, 16 August 2003 12:04 |
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Another day filled with sights and sounds...
By: lenny on Sat, 16 August 2003 22:44 |
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Sounds like another fun day
By: smith on Sun, 17 August 2003 21:54 |
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Quick update...
By: lenny on Mon, 18 August 2003 22:45 |
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A two-in-one deal! (Warning! Big Read!)
By: lenny on Tue, 19 August 2003 11:43 |
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Sounds like you're having a wonderful time!!
By: setras on Tue, 19 August 2003 20:42 |
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Oh wow did we walk!
By: timmy on Tue, 19 August 2003 11:53 |
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Re: Oh wow did we walk!
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