“The games have just begun!” – Jigsaw2

Just came back from another fun day on the streets of London and Norwich! It’s been a fun last two days, here’s a (pretty) short review of them.

First up, yesterday began with me waking up way too early, something you may have noticed based on the timestamp of the last news post. Had a good breakfast, and then I went to the British Museum. I had been there about 10 years earlier, but as they quite often reinvent their exhibitions it was all a new experience. On the way to the epic museum I decided to check around town for a book I’ve been looking for, for English class – the very-well known Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris. Unfortunately, since I was up so early, turned out I had to go back later to buy it, although that turned out more difficult than I had anticipated…. Last time I visited the British Museum I guess I didn’t really find anything that interesting -which just made it all the more fun to check it out this time. Firstly, the architecture of the place is seriously amazing on the outside, but also so when you get into the building and see the very epic glass roof which houses the main room. So I went looking at mummies, old watches, statues and old coins and bills for about an hour or two – really interesting stuff, not surprisingly massively more impressive than their Swedish museum counterparts.

After having lunch at the beautiful Covent Garden, the walk continued off to the posh area Mayfair, where some really cool cars and houses were spotted – if anyone has a spare Porsche 911 Carrera 4S I wouldn’t mind having it – it was seriously what the Volvo V70 is to the streets of Malmö. Decided to continue to Buckingham Palace to visit the Queen – well, sort of. Unfortunately, my overjoyous photographing of passing cars decided to kill off my camera battery about one block from the royal home.

I had planned to go buy some films later that evening at the huge HMV store located just a ten minute walk from our hotel, but when I showed up at the store at around 19:00, it turned out it closed really early on Sundays for some reason, even though the amount of people and tourists in the streets hardly had been reduced considerably. No problem though, as I picked up quite a few films today instead, but more on that later!

Today I woke up early to take the nine o’clock train to Norwich, home of FXhome. I arrived at about ten to 11, and was picked up at the station by Simon (also known as “Tarn”). Spent a great few hours hours and had some really good lunch – can’t really go wrong with cheeseburgers at a pub! Also talked a lot about some future plans of FXhome – very interesting and very fun. I wish I’d been able to stay a bit longer to challenge the crew to some Rock Band, but unfortunately I had to leave back to London on my train, which departed at 14:30. Arrived at the hotel at around 17:00, and pretty more directly went out to – hopefully – be able to get a few films. And so I did – in total, I think I bought around 30 films in total, among these Quantum of Solace, Taken and Man on Fire on Blu-Ray as well as the Alfred Hitchcock collection containing 15 films at the really good price of just 20 GBP.

After that, I was off to see the musical We will rock you by Queen and Ben Elton, playing at the Dominion theatre. It was really  a lot of fun, and a fantastic show – yet another must-see if you ever come to London. Which is what I love about this city – there’s always something to see, something to do. Which also means by the time you get home at night, you’re really, really exhausted . Going to an airport-related conference tomorrow with my dad – bringing my camera along, maybe I’ll be able to shoot some cool pics, as it’s a tech-related conference.

It’s going to be great to get home to Malmö soon though Talk to you soon, take care!

P.S. I hope you like the new image-heavy news posts!