Back Back Back Again to London!!!!

So after the debauchery commenced (and yes we send our LOVE LOVE LOVE to Liz for as always being the hostest with the mostest.. <3) we finally boarded a flight to Standsted and hulled our tooties to our hostel late that night.

Clearly we took London by storm the next day, making sure that we saw everything that we hadn't gotten in our 1st 24 hours! Beautiful day, so we strolled the thames starting at the London Tower! Gave ourselves the cheap student version of the guided tour (aka read all the signs...imagined some fun stories and clearly took some hilarious photos). We then went to the Tate Modern...yes more ART but this one FREEEEE!!! So awesome...totally felt like a kid in a candy store with that collection.

Strolled across the crazy Millemium Bridge and ended up in Traflagar Square and visited the National Portrait Gallery. YES quite an Art day! After renting a audio tour which gave us quite insightful info..like George Washington never smiled because of his many painful sets of false teeth or the tragic story of Lady Grey..beheaded at 16.

However, after oding on art it was clearly time for a tall glass of strongbow! This was a major highlight because Skips and I stroll into the nearest pub called Halfway II Heaven, after a little bit of rudeness from the bartender, Skipper insightfully notices that there are only men in the bar..interesting. However, we then noticed the guides for the Gay Tour of London, yet we still weren't conveniences that we had walked into a gay pub...then we noticed flamboyant photos of men at Madri Gras that were strewn across the walls finally culminating with the fact that the pub's logo on the menu was a man with red lipstick on. Ok now let me explain why this was so absolutely ridiculous, because Skipper and I usually have no qualms with gay bars...in fact sometimes there are a rather nice time...yet this was the MOST AWKWARD gay bar ever!! Not a sole inside was speaking to one another...men in suites just standing around looking at the middle of the room!!! Bizarre and yes hilarious!

Our night cap that evening was Macbeth at the Globe! Best £5 I have ever spent!! The director draped the stage in with a black clothe and the people in the pit could stick their heads through the cut out holes..creating an eerie sea of heads..quite fitting for Macbeth! So Skips and I took advantage of that and took our Strongbow and Scrumpy Jack in our holes with us!!

Our last day in London was filled with making sure we got our fill of Strongbows and then a Charles Dickens walking tour! Quite informative (although it followed a path through LSE- London School of Economics- campus...oh sad!).

Got our butts on to Heathrow and shot over 12 hours later to Cape Town appropriately for Skippers bday!! Our volunteer program's operational manager Tim picked us up! We are staying in Muizemberg which is probably like 20 minutes outside of Cape Town in this really quiet surf town in a group house with a bunch of other volunteers! The fun begins on Monday! Skips and I saw the town and finally tried to hunt down some bday wine..apparently too late (since alcohol can't be sold in stores past 7) and let me tell it was a valiant effort and our search and yet sadly to no avail! Yet all bday's told Italy definitely made up for this rather quiet evening!

Getting ready to head to Robbin Island tour tomorrow (did this one with IHP but it is totally worth doing it again) with a few of the other vols who had planned it!

More from the current Soccer Capital soon!!!!

Midge