A gun rack... a gun rack. I don't even own A gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?


This gun rack is part of the Armoury at Tower of London - read on for more details....

This past week has been a bit quieter as we were both pretty exhausted from Paris.

We had a very quiet Friday night - Damo went for a couple of quiet ones after work, and then we just went out to the movies and saw You, Me and Dupree.

(*Damo speaking*) I thought it was average to OK at best. Not a complete waste of time, but I'm not sure that I left feeling as though I had been completely entertained....

Anyway, as some of you will no doubt be rushing off to the cinemas to see it, based on my history with movie critiquing, we'll try and keep this blog post relatively short.......(*End Damo speaking*)

Saturday we got up and did a few chores around the house, and got ready to go into the City. We caught the tube in, and got out here.....


....Piccadilly Circus

After this we went to Carnaby St, and checked it out - it lacks a bit (more like a LOT) of the zing as portrayed in the Austin Power films (Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Elvis Costello and Mr Burt Bacharach) - it was ok, and there were some cool little bars, but the shops were excessively overpriced, and not anywhere near as unique as we would've expected.


This is what we were expecting!

But not what we got! We didn't even get to see Heather Graham or Mike Myers! ;-)

We didn't get any photos when we were there, but Damo works relatively close to it, so he'll go in one day just to snap a few piccies, not that there's that much to take photos of anyway!

We wandered around that area for a number of hours, went and did a bit of other shopping (but didn't buy anything) and then we ended up heading home - we didn't get up to much on Saturday night, but still stayed up pretty late so that we could call home and wish both of our dad's a Happy Father's Day - and a Happy Father's Day to any of you other dad's out there that are reading this - hope the young one's looked after you well for your day!


It's Father's Day in June over here, so it wasn't even possible to get a Father's Day card anyway!

Got up on Sunday and decided we'd do a bit more sight-seeing, so we decided that we'd go and check out the Tower of London. It was excellent - we'd seen the outside of it plenty of times before, but we'd never been through it until now! It was great - we both enjoyed it immensely.


The tower bathed in rare sunlight (even though it's supposed to be Summer over here....)

It was very weird standing on the same spot where people had been executed and tortured and stuff - We got escorted around by Beefeaters (Yeoman Warders) for a guided tour and our guide was hilarious.


This is what the Beefeaters look like.

We went into the Chapel there, and we also followed the exact path through the Tower of London that all of the headless corpses follow after they were beheaded. We checked out the Torture Chamber....




(Yep - that's right - this is a rack...)

and also saw heaps of Armour from King Henry VIII....




(and Damo with a replica of it....)

...and we also checked out the Crown Jewels - they were fairly impressive, that's for sure. The chapel was amazing - the Yeoman Warder spoke about how at one time in the 1800's they decided to do a refurbishment on the church, which included ripping the floor up because it was sinking, and they ended up exhuming 1500 bodies from there - they were able to positively identify 33 of them - some of them from hundreds of years before then!!!! They mentioned that there was a sarcophagus in the middle of the room, and they opened it up and instead of finding bodies, they found the church's font (the thing that holds the holy water). Pretty sure that Anne Boleyn might have been buried beneath this church, also!

All in all, it was a great day, and comes highly recommended to any of you who might get the chance to travel over here - there's no rush though - the place has been there since the 1000's when it was commissioned to be built by William the Conqueror....

After we'd finished here, we caught the tube from Tower Hill tube station to Temple tube station - holy crap - what a shit hole of a place that is - We walked out of the tube stop, and thankfully we weren't dressed up much because there were beggars by the truckloads - heaps and heaps of them. It was fairly dodgy, that's for sure - Damo ended up helping a fella in a wheelchair get up the hill and then we ended up wheeling him to wherever he was going (Sardinia St, near Covent Garden) - he said he was having a bad day because they'd run out of food at the place near the tube stop..... The place where we ended up taking him to looked pretty dodgy too, but we left him to it - didn't really fancy heading into the middle of all that again, if we didn't really need to.

We did all of this on our way to Covent Garden, where we decided to go for Tapas and a couple of quiet glasses of vino. There was a really cool reggae band playing a heap of Bob Marley songs, and we were just sitting there listening to that and enjoying our meal - it was sensational.


The Reggae Band


The restaurant

We headed home not long after this, and walked in the door, and we got a phone call from Tory saying "I'm having dinner in a restaurant in your street! Come on down!", but even though we were both exhausted, we did anyway. We went there and Damo had a beer and Nikki had a green tea. It was a very strange place, but we were told that the food was nice, so we'll possibly consider going back - especially because it's only a few doors down from where we live....

We got a photo of the people that we went out with!


Tory's on the left.

We got home pretty late, and we're buggered today, but it was a good weekend anyway.