On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:52:10 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 20 Jan 2009 18:37:16 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Leicester Square?.  Because there's good restaurants there and I'm
>>hungry now.
> 
> Yum! I'll go later today and visit the Wong Kei. (Don't believe the
> reviews the food is good if you don't order the tourist (Gweilo) menu).

You know, the reason I chose that station is because we had the "dinner 
from hell" near there - met up with an acquaintance with a friend of 
ours, and the acquaintance gave us a "tour" of the "seedy part of 
London" (not her exact words, but close enough).  Our friend who was with 
us said "yeah, I was part of the creation of that".  We got lots of 
unsolicited advice, including my stepson (who was maybe 11 at the time) 
getting unsolicited career advice.

But the funny thing is Wong Kei may well be where we went.  I don't have 
the receipt any more (odd that, it's only been 10 years), so I'm not 
exactly sure where it was.

But we were invited to "go for a walk afterward" even though "I know you 
Americans don't like to exercise or take long walks".  We passed, citing 
that it was close to the last train back to Hastings (where we were 
staying with friends) - we went to Leicester Square station and the gate 
was down...ended up walking to the next station down the line, had some 
beer and tequila shots, and then got on the train - after realising that 
it actually wasn't the last train after all. :-)

> Covent Garden.

Ah, our first look at London was there.  We stayed with friends out in 
Bucks the first week we were there, and Shaun took us to London - and we 
got off at Covent Garden.

It was raining, so we went to our next destination by getting back on the 
tube at that station as well. :-)

I'm going to invoke Hammerstein's third deviation and take the Eurostar 
to Calais.

Jim

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