The title sums up the theme of this post. This is my first time at posting and all I can promise is I won't write as much info as Krystle, or be anywhere near as entertaining. Krystle has obviously done all the posts so far, while my role has been a participant and spell checker. But I'm off the bench now (footballing metaphor cause I'm currently watching the Premier League preview for today's games, so much football not enough time!) and ready to play a starring role. I don't know how to do photos though and I don't think we took any anyway.
So my job is to report on our trip to the London Dungeon and it was without a doubt our most disappointing experience so far. We had seen it the previous week on our bus tour and thought it sounded interesting. We booked our tickets on-line during the week for a 3.30pm time and what was labelled Fast-track and headed into London on the day with the sun shining after a fair bit of rain during the week.
We arrived at London Bridge station and walked past the Dungeons where the queues seemed reasonable and went to find our obligatory pub lunch experience. I'll digress briefly to comment on how good we have found the pubs here. Foods always been good, enjoyable atmosphere and bottles of wine with prices that make buying it by the glass inconceivable. The pubs here don't believe in ice buckets so you find yourself drinking quite quickly to finish the bottle before it gets warm.
After we had our lunch we walked back to the Dungeons to find a massive queue for the Fast-track line. We had to wait a good hour in this line despite having paid for fast entry. We tried to get our money back rather than wait but the staff were unfriendly and unhelpful. Once inside (with more queuing) the exhibits ranged from mildly entertaining to just plain dull. For a place that bills itself as being scary, it wasn't really. Having people jump out at you and shout at you gets a little tedious after a while. Krystle was a little more jumpy than I was but I don't think she was that scared either. The exhibits finish with one of those rides that lift you up and then suddenly drop you, which is supposed to simulate your head being chopped off or something equally tenuous. It was actually scary though because they drop you in complete darkness, but we left very disappointed and a little more wary of visiting lame touristy attractions.
The next day we had lunch with our landlords, Jim and Jan, and the rest of our housemates, which was quite nice. Later we went into Leicester Square and saw a movie (that Chuck and Larry one). Tickets were over thirteen pounds each, so again seems aimed at taking as much money from tourists as they can. Great cinema though, with the only comfier seats we've experienced probably being in Gold-class.
That's it from me then, normal transmissions will resume soon!
1 comment:
Thanks for writing this.
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