Well the title of this blog update is not exactly how my day went.
I made it through Customs/Immigration rather swiftly despite the length of the "Alien" line (again I have sworn next time I will be travelling on an Irish passport, rather than an Australian one) and picked up my suitcase quickly and walked straight through Customs and on to the Underground to take me to meet my cousin. All that went smoothly and caught up with my cousin and headed back to her place.
Had a bit of a yack to my cousin, checked Facebook (hm... all the notifications you have when you're not online for 24 hours!). I decided today I would walk around "my" hood of Islington and check out some sights in my local area that I wanted to see. So plotted my route and off I went. 3 hours later I was back feeling much less jet-lagged and happy I was able to check off some places in my "to see" list.
Important (well important to me) sites that I saw today included
Tony Blair's previous Islington residence!
A section of a frieze in a park behind Upper St, Islington. It was initally in Threadneedle St but after a couple of moves it is now in its current location.
Waiting for confirmation from a friend back home, but I believe this piece of wall art behind a chemist on Essex Rd may be part of an original Banksy.
Thanks to a find on YouTube I found out that this residence is connected to one of my favourite Britpop bands, Pulp. Not sure if one of them/all of them lived here, or it was a band's rehearsal space. The proof I have is found on this video:
So who knows what connection this residence has to Pulp, all the same I paid homage to the spot!
It is rumoured that Sir Walter Raleigh entertained Elizabeth I at this pub.
Where Caroline Chisholm lived in Camden!
Filthy MacNasty's Pub. It was here that Shane MacGowan of The Pogues, and Nick Cave would drink. Johnny Depp has also been seen here. Pete Doherty also apparently worked there (when he wasn't off his chops on who knows what.... or maybe he was?). anyway if it was good enough for the likes of those musical luminaries to have a bevvy there, it is good enough for Jaxster. Alas, I can only rate my vodka, lime and soda a 5/10. But the guys behind the bar looked like a couple of musos. Maybe I was served by the next big thing?
Now.... what to do tomorrow?
adios
Jax
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