Tuesday, July 3, 2007

London - Wimbledon, Potter, Walking

We arose early this morning so we could walk to the train station with Christine's dad. The station is about 1.25 miles from the house, and he walks it every day. Combined with the other walking he does in the city, he gets a lot of walking exercise.

From the train station, we jogged back home to eat and shower. Then it was back to the train, this time for our own trip out. Our first stop was Wimbledon. Centre court tickets are pricey, but we got some grounds tickets to check out some of the action on the other courts. It was cool to see it all in person. The grounds crew was certainly getting a workout unrolling and rolling the tarps when the rain came.

Eventually we made it in to the city with the goal of checking out the Tour de France prologue course to try and find some good places to stand. We also stopped in a pub and had a couple classics: bangers and mash, and fish and chips. Along with a beer of course.

We were on the subway headed back out of town when Christine noticed a news story about a Harry Potter premier today. We were close (just a couple tube stops away), so we decided to check it out. Quite the mad house. It was a big movie premier; something that we hadn't seen before. We were there towards the end, and I actually got to see Harry Potter walk by and into the mass of screaming young girls.

Another long day and we're back with the fam. Tomorrow we have to get up even earlier so we can catch our train to Bruges, Belgium. Mmmmm, chocolate and beer.

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