London Boys

This Wednesday was the trip to London that we had been looking forward to for some time. After a pleasant journey we proceeded to make our way to the tube where we got split up after only 20 minutes. This was the start of an eventful day that would see us sliding, drinking, walking, talking and shopping.

The main reason for visiting London was to see the wondrous ideas that the Tate Modern would fill our heads with, only to find that all the exhibits were closed due to industrial action. After a couple of goes on the slides that adorn their corridors, which was a laugh, we met up to find some of our group had gone to the design gallery which I wouldn’t have minded myself.

It was then a case of just wondering off on our own steam to meet up at 6.30 to get something to eat. I didn’t have a clue where I was, where I was going or what I wanted to do. I presumed there would be more of a plan and some tips on what might be useful. My only knowledge of London comes from Monopoly. It is not a place I have visited frequently and know much about.

It was interesting and an eye opener, I have never seen so many people in one city with 75% of them jogging. The architecture is awe inspiring, spoiled only by the masses of builders’ cranes adorning the landscape. Our group just set off with no clue and no plan, after looking for a tube station for nearly an hour we ended up in Soho where we made the decision to split up as we all wanted to do different things and with a group so large you could not please everybody. Even after splitting up, the idea of a good day out in London was all very self opinionated. It was a case of trying to please everybody by doing a little of what everybody wanted.

I got to know a few people a lot better and talked to people who I don’t usually talk to at college. As a team building exercise it was a total success, as an aid to my design development not as much.

High point of the day was when Jamie, Chris, Craig and myself happened upon, by accident, Trafalgar Square all lit up at night time (I took these 3 guys because if I had lost them we had a spare of each). We had a great laugh and each of us had our breath taken away from the floodlit architecture all around us.
An exhilarating end to a very interesting day.
Thanks to all who made my day a good one and I hope Steve will arrange another visit in the future so we can see what we missed this time.
On another note, to appease you guys who view my blog on a Mac and told me that the font size was too small, I have edited it to a larger font size in the hope it will be readable by all.
Let me know if it is better or not.