The End of London?
It almost was… with The Circle Line Crawl….
The last couple of weeks were busy, yet at the same point not. Lots of cleaning up and throwing things away. It didn’t really get sad until it started hapenning, and I started leaving.
When they finally hired a new girl to replace me, I was quite happy. It was a busy week and a slow one at the same time. Lots to do, but with the need of a computer. So whenever I had a chance, it would be a rush on the computer for a few minutes until Laurie came back, and then it felt slow just to wait for questions or to teach a new part. Work had an neat little going away party. Got to say bye to most people quickly, on the Monday, where people wanted to finish and get out of there. As usual, wanted to say so much, but ended up saying so little.
The Spanish roomate talked in Spanish again, and by the way, I still don’t understand Spanish. But it was a nice guesture of goodbye. The Polish guys who owned the bar gave me some of those coasters from his bar.
Went out for really, really good fish and chips with Josh and Stacey. It was soo good, very little batter, clean oil, delicious!
Said goodbye Tuesday to those longest friends, that we had all met at the pub back when. Chilled out at a little italian place, then All bar One in Picadilly, where the girls started to be followed by stalkers while we left. That was scary for them. We shall all meet again, you can count on it!
One more night out for Thai food.
Okay, because i no longer have access to a decent computer, photos will be more difficult to post.
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THE CIRCLE LINE PUB CRAWL
The ultimate in all pubcrawls. The first branch for the Circle line, opened 1868. It now covers 22.5 Kilometers, with 27 stations and carries over 68 million people annually. The circle line would take, on a single train, approximately 1 hour to complete the entire track.
The circle line pub crawl takes 12 hours to do every stop on the circle line. You find the neared pub or bar to the station, and get a drink there. Starting at 11am when the pubs open, the goal is to be done by 11pm, completing the last drink at the original stop. By this schedule, you only have 10-15 minutes maximum in each pub. Crawlers would drink either a half pint, small glass of wine, highball or a shot at each bar. If you dare, you can try a full pint a each.
Our chosen rules: get a picture at each pub, no sitting down or holding on while on the tube,
Stop 1 Baker Street
Metropolitan bar at 11am with a burger and beer. Two present, Josh and I. This was to be our last meal for the day! It was very quiet at that time in the pub. There was one large group there, and there were subtle signs that they may be out for the circle line. We ate quickly, and headed out before 12 noon. Our chosen poison, was Vokda, or Vodka highballs.
2-?
The bars were really nice, quiet, realaxed and looked very local. It was going well, very relaxed, and we were ahead of the pace. Some bars were really, really nice, very British quiet and traditional style pubs. More people slowly crawled out of bed to come an join us and the pub numbers kept raising.
There were no open pubs at:
Monument – So instead, we ended up getting vodka from M&S
Cannon Street – drank on top of the cannons. We also saw the slow motion marathon mad, and got picture with him. one step every 5 seconds was his pace. The paper showed he did eventually finish, 8 days after the marathon.
Estimate Bar 7 The Shakespear
Look “Archers”, and its only 25%. Lets do a shot. “here’s glasses because its half strength so you get a double shot,” – bartender[with a big smug ass smurk on his face. Most bartenders had that look that day]. That was the first and only attempt to try and change drinking Vodka.
Estimate stop 10
We ran into a large group of guys and girls who were one the circle. Except they didn’t get off with us, they were only doing every second stop. Tooo bad guys, maybe next time you’ll be ready for the whole thing.
Estimate Stop 13
If the fortune for Pieces was written that day, it would read: You will be tempted by a new challenge. It appeared. The Argos Catalog. Well, this is British! so we must take it with us. “Don’t shop for it, Argos it” It was carried religiously, stolen by people, thrown in the road, had the cover ripped off, but all the while I made sure it was there.
Halfway, Stop 14
From about half way (Bar 14!) onward, there started to be a few memory gaps. Good thing there were people to keep track of things! Started getting cut off at bars around this time (but only after we ordered, ha, jokes on you!), apparently we were too loud.
A few comments from others who seem to have more memory:
“Emily, get in the picture. Common, get in the picture. Now.” -Allison [I kicked Em in the ass, she grumbles -G]
Victoria Station – “Someone walked out and says, Geoff’s in trouble. We went back in and the bouncer had his arm around you.” -John [I remember part of this, I was sure going to get a picture with the bouncer before he kicked me out. And we did.]
“Just seeing you that drunk, made me not want to drink.” – Allison
“Where’s the Argos book?” – (unknown) [Argos book goes missing about stop number 25]
Stop 27.
Closed. You HAVE TO BE KIDDING! the last stop in the circle line….! Ahh. We got our the final station, and they said we are Closed! The final stop, noooooo!!! See if thats going to stop us! Its amazing what people think and will do for you when you say: “Circle line pub crawl.” You bet we got some.
“At stop 27, you both took the drink and stood there for 2 minutes staring at the floor with the same look on your faces. Then the bartender said go outside, because it was a nice bar.” – Mindog
Return to Victory 28
Back at Baker street, we ran into a kid who bet he knew me. Turns out he did, a kid from ASL that we spoke in the gym before.
It was the only pub who cut me off before I got to the bar. Good thing for friends. Not that it helped much, not sure what happened to that drink. I gathered everyone to take a picture, the final one, and … ready! Bang! dropped the camera and that was the end of pictures.
“Do you remember that student we met at the bar?” John [sure do now]
Baker street “Do you want to go out? lets go to Soho.” Tim [I don’t think so, going home]
Total time: Approx 12 hours 50 min.
It was the longest ride home, and a great relief to wake up in my bed. I have a brief memory of having a hard time walking, and waking up on the lawn thinking – I shouldn’t be here, got to go to bed.
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