On 21 Jan 2009 13:11:39 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>
>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).  

Soho, the red light district also the theatre district and China town. 

>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.
>

Ugg!

>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.
>
Ah! Receipts, the Wong Kei does not do receipts nor does it do cheques or credit
cards. If it does receipts I bet they are in Chinese. It is a cheap studenty
place with 4 floors and queues.  

>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".  

How rude. 

>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...

Cross the road, there are two other entrances. 

>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. :-)
>

Told you :)

>> 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. :-)

Raining! I don't believe it ;)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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