Next day, I met another friend from
London that I met in China while I was traveling through Yangshuo and
had a lunch together in Bond. He showed me around the center of the
London a little bit but he got a work so I couldn't stay with him
long. I walked around the town by myself and went back to
backpackers.
The reason I visit London town once
again is that my mother she was visiting London for holiday and I was
there for tour guide and as a translator. But, I didn't even know
much about London, so well, I just wanted to touring around this
expensive town with mum. I got a call from her about 7 in the
afternoon, picked her up from her hotel and took her to a Moroccan
restaurant. We had some wine and nice meal, talked about travel and
family, had a fun.
My mum called and woke me up 9 in the
morning next day and the busy touring has began. I am not used to
waking up early so it was bit tough but she got short time in London
so it has to be in rush. We passed through the Hyde park and visit a
shop called Liberty. The shop was built from a battle ship dismantled
into pieces, and rebuilt to the Liberty building. So it has unique
atmosphere of old wood and black metal, and the inside was decollated
with lots of fabric and ornament. It was beautiful and fun to walked
around inside. We had a lunch in a pub, walked through SOHO till
Thames river, took a boat and slowly traveled throw to London bridge,
and in the night, we went to a theater to see a musical “Billy
Eliott”. It was recommended by a lot of my friends that I totally
enjoyed the show as well; the kids characters were truly talented.
Even my mum without understanding a single word, but she was
impressed as well.
Next day, my mum had a class for flower
arrangement and I had to come around with her for road guide and
translate. It was about half an hour away from London by train, in a
little village surrounded by the beautiful hill and lake. Our lecture
came to pick us up in the train station, drove us around the town and
took us to her house where the tutorial was held. It was massive
house with amazing garden and sunny room. My mum, I and one more girl
from Japan were the only student for the day. Flower arrangement was
more interesting than what I was imagined of playing flowers. Anyway,
we had tea and cakes in her house and we went back to London town.
After the dinner, mum went back to hotel, and I went out with some
friends that I met in last London trip. From this morning, my mid
finger was swollen up badly and I couldn't take it anymore. So I
decided to cut this pus out of my finger in the night. Got myself a
razor, antidote, bandage, and a bottle of vodka, then we started to
drink and drink on the street of London town. After I got really
smashed, the operation has began on the street of London town. Jez
was the doctor in charge, Paula from Spain, she took in charge of a
nurse, and I give my finger to them and playing doctor has started as
earnest. After disinfecting, Jez cut the pus in a flash, it bled
thick blood slowly, I screamed in the dark and Paula gave me
sanitizes gauze, had a puff and shot of vodka then I started to play
guitar and shout some tunes. It stays in my memory like flashing
lights, awesome memory of London experience has gone in the dark with
my blood on the road.
Waken up by a call from mum in the morning, met up
in Kensington park and had chinese together. I didn't feel like
London tour because of loss of blood and hangover so that she went to
shopping by herself and I spent couple of hours laying on the park
under the beautiful sunshine. She came back from shopping and showed
me some souvenir happily. We went to an Italian restaurant and I had
some seafood pasta and a bottle of wine. I had it with great
appreciation of having mum and family. And then again, I hanged out
with friends in the evening. We got kicked out from the street we
were drinking this time, so we decided to go to Kensington park to
drink. It was closed at the night but we sneaked into the park throw
the gate, sit near the lake and we had some drink. It was pinched
dark and there was nobody but then I put out my guitar and played
random codes. We put meaningless lyrics on to the tune and yelled.
The melody flowing throw in the quiet park made the lively air with
friends and lovely evening has gone with the wind. The faces in the
dark has shined by the hazy moon light but I could clearly see them
through the laughing sound. The stars were shining brighter than
usual and we created our own perspective of the world and the party
was kept on going throw the night.
When I woke up from the dream, I got
confused what the hell is happened on the bed in the room of 21
people. The mobile rang and I turned back to reality. Checked out
from the guest house and caught up with my mum in the park. We walked
around the flower garden and chilled out on a bench. I saw her off
till her hotel and said good bye. Bond street, SOHO, London bridge,
sightseeing boat and good restaurants so on, it was the week that I
become a true tourist. I took a bus to go back to Bristol and I had
some rest in the end.
Bristol
Its been a while that I have a proper
place to live and bed. I spent time quietly, writing blog, playing
guitar and drawing pictures. Got myself a ticket to Berlin and
Shambala festival. It will be chaos in three days, I had nice resting
days in bristol.
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