Burger King and Garod Butler (and Katherine Heigl)

It takes a little while to get into the swing of a different time zone and we were up early really when Luke found he could no longer sleep, so after our free continental breakfast we made our way to Leicester Square, an area which both Chris and I like and thought Luke would too, and as we predicted, he did. We took a stroll through this area and noticed that there were trucks and vans and men and roadies all busy at work setting up for something, which we soon realized was actually for a red carpet premier of the new movie “The Ugly Truth” starring Garod Butler and Katharine Heigl. We decided that we would pop back later that night and see how one of these things work.
We kept strolling about and soon realized that we were a little hungry and as we were in China Town, would stop for a quick meal, which was nice, and then kept moving. As we walked about we came across a guitar store where Luke saw a little guitar he really liked, he resisted temptation for now, but said that he would return later for it, you can’t keep Luke away from a good guitar!

We walked onto South bank where we took Luke to look at the London Eye, we contemplated going on it but then saw the line up for tickets and backed away very quickly, it was huge! We strolled along the river Thames taking in the sights around us and dropped into the Tate Museum quickly where we looked at some Picasso paintings and then left. London is currently chockers with tourists so it’s pretty crazy at the more popular places of interest, you can barely move and it can become quite claustrophobic really! We kept walking until we came to a bar we’ve sampled earlier in our travels and stopped for a drink or two in the sun, before again rising to our feet and heading off to see the Tower Bridge, from a distance, our feet were beginning to hurt a little. We slowly head off to the tube station, stopping briefly at the Portobello Market Square where Chris was able to sample a ‘very good’ coffee (highly recommended by the Lonely Planet booklet)

We made it back to Leicester Square where the movie premier was just beginning to take off, the red carpet was rolled out, the barriers were up, fans lined the streets… we noticed that there was a two story Burger King right across the road from the movie theater, so we went in there and it was a very good decision to do so I think. We had a brilliant birds eye view of the events, we watched as dancers came out and performed, and then as little explosion things took off and red love heart glitter things fell from the sky, and then, Garod Butler (mmmmm) and Kathrine Hiegl arrived. We watched them walk down the red carpet stopping to pose with fans, sign autographs, talk to press etc etc, they seemed very nice, especially Kathrine Hiegl, who despite knowing of, I’ve never been a huge fan of. It took a long time for them to make there way down the red carpet which was about 150 meters long all up, but it took them about an hour and a half, we actually left BEFORE they finished there appearance, we were getting really tired of standing about!

As we were in the movie district we decided that we would take a rest and relax by watching “Star Trek” it was as good as we first remembered it being, but this time, as it played I suddenly heard a little snoring sound… I looked over and despite all the loud explosions and yells etc, Luke was sound asleep in the movie theatre, we let him sleep through out this and only roused him out of his slumber to make a move back to the hostel.

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Chris and Emily on August 4, 2009 from London, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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