{"id":336,"date":"2005-05-29T07:11:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T07:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=336"},"modified":"2005-05-29T07:11:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-29T07:11:42","slug":"just-cruisin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/just-cruisin\/","title":{"rendered":"Just cruisin'"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMS wakeup from Tam.. reply with “wait 10min” and proceed to make coffee and PB sandwich (my staple food as it’s the cheapest thing I can find to eat).<\/p>\n

I’m quite wrecked from last night but manage to string together a ‘few’ words \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

The “Maple Leaf” phonecard the guy insisted was best for calling Oz was shite, only giving me 200 minutes and not 642 like the New Swifty card. (Why do I have the feeling I’ve already mentioned that? Must be the beer..)<\/p>\n

Got a call from Tezz, so headed into Trafalgar Square to meet him. For some reason I thought Holborn was close. Nuh uh! It was a 15min fast walk. I was already late because the train had sat at Ealing for 10-15min! Grr.. I’m turning into a Londoner! hahaha<\/p>\n

We searched high and low for a suitable drunking venue – serves cheap beer, outdoor seating in the sun with a good perve-rating. Did we find one? We got half-way.<\/p>\n

\"Tezz<\/a><\/div>\n

The view was okay but fuck me drunk if I didn’t just shell out ?7 for two 330ml bottles of Stella Artois! That’s $10 per a fucking stubbie! Not even a normal sized stubbie, a yuppie stubbie and Stella is crap. So.. rot in hell “ON ANON” bar, you yuppie-scum feeding pond!<\/p>\n

At least we made the most of the nice seats. Some crazy stretched 4WD went past which I managed to snap a dodgy pic of. <\/p>\n

\"Streeetched<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How the hell this thing actually navigates London traffic and small streets I’ll never know!<\/p>\n

On to Cheers! I insisted it was a yank pub but Tezz claimed the word was pommie so the pub was pommie. I was right.. it was supposed to be a copy of the bar from that shite US sitcom Cheers! Screw my nipple nuts and call me Frank if their 2-pint “pitcher” of Kronenburg didn’t actually pour two pints worth of beer?!?!? Dunno how they managed that, but they did. No, we didn’t spill any! <\/p>\n

Tezz reckons US and UK pints are different – anyone else have any opinions? Is there a lake somewhere with all the missing beer in it? Do the staff “skim” it like they do credit cards? Does glass absorb beer?<\/p>\n

Genna-Leigh (hope I spelled that right!) joined us and we ended up at Hungry Jacks for an approximation of food. <\/p>\n

I photocopied some maps at the nearby “offie” and decided to grab a foreign brew while I was there. Krusovice Imperial Czech Premium Lager<\/b> it was – “Ooh Ahh”.<\/p>\n

\"Krusovice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I rode over to nearby Walpole Park and sat down in the sun to drink it, watch the sunset and finish “A Significant Other” which DaveB had given me as a book swapping thing. <\/p>\n

\"Krusovice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The beer was nothing special, the book was nothing special (for much of it), sitting in the midst of a foreign land with my bike watching the sun set was pretty fucking cool!<\/p>\n

I did get feisty and ended up going for another pedal before the sun was fully gone. Went to the large rail bridge down the road and had a look around. <\/p>\n

\"Rail<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I found some singletrack, but got 10m along and realised that the stinging nettles that kept hitting my hands and legs.. well.. they did really frickin’ sting!! I turned back – save that ride for a day with full-finger gloves. <\/p>\n

Now I’m going to have PB sandwiches for “late dinner” along with some Scrumpy Jack cider I’ve been dying to try for ages. The Bus Station Loonies<\/b> (funny punk band and the only one I think I like?) seem to be fans of the stuff.. “Saaaaave ouuuurrrr ciiiderrrrr! Save our cider! Save our cider! Save our cider!” <\/p>\n

\"Scrumpy<\/div>\n
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