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Our weekend in London in numbers

Written by louisa on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 @ 10:18 pm | Filed under: |
  • 20 - cost, in pounds of our return train fare (each)
  • 15.1 - miles walked (above the surface)
  • 16 - painkillers popped by John (who hurt his back on the way to the train station in Leeds)
  • 7 - cost, in pounds, of a sundae in the Haagen Das restaurant (worth it)
  • 5 - drinks drunk at The Chandos pub
  • 4 - doughnuts eaten (between us)
  • 24 - amount of doughnuts bought by the woman behind us in the queue, stocking up for her six hour journey to Devon (she is our new hero)
  • 2 - meals eaten in Chinatown
  • 5 - amount of times (out of 11) that Big Ben rang while we were standing DIRECTLY underneath it before we actually realised it was ringing
  • 3 - scarves bought: one pink/blue, one turquoise and one green/orange
  • 7 - cost, in pounds, of a small bottle of beer and half-a-coke at the Hippodrome bar while watching La Cirque
  • 10 - inches, the diameter of the tennis racket that Captain Frodo of La Clique squeezed himself through
  • 1 - number of joints he had to dislocate to be able to do that
  • 0 - the amount of laughs the ‘Viva Croydon’ song in La Cirque elicited from us
  • 32.50 - cost, in pounds, of stalls tickets for Spamalot from the tkts booth in Leicester Square
  • 2 - the amount of people who pushed in front of me in the drinks buying queue at the Spamalot interval
  • 2 - museums visited
  • 3.50 - cost, in pounds, of our British Museum guide book
  • 2 - time, in minutes, spent looking at British Museum guide book
  • 10 - tube stations visited
  • 2 - maximum time, in rounded-up minutes, that we had to wait for any tube train (probably more like 90seconds)
  • 6 - number of times I jokingly complained about the waiting times on British public transport when arriving on a platform exactly as a train arrived
  • 3 - amusing overheards*
  • 1 - potential punfolio submissions about ghee

* #1 - “Did you tell her about the death? Oh good.”
#2 - “If we all thought like that, we’d all live in poverty.”
#3 - something in Spanish which we didn’t understand but accompanied by a spanking motion

2 Responses to “Our weekend in London in numbers”

  1. Josie Says:

    He-he… what a great and geeky post. British museum is ace. We spent a long time lying on the benches staring at the roof (and giggling, because being up-side-down is ALWAYS funny). Have been to the Chandos a few times many years ago too. Not forgotten our date… just really hectic this week :(
    What you up to on Monday?

  2. Mr Tedesco (Jr) Says:

    scarves rule, you can never have enough.

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