Weekend 1

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Date: 19 August 2008 21:13:19

We have arrived home after our weekend in London with Stroppy Boy.

It was a very enjoyable weekend. We managed to do some touristy stuff and find time to meet up Tractor Girl before her move northwards.

Friday night started with dinner at Wong Kei's in Wardour Street. This is very cheap Chinese with great service and superb food. You can get very bruske service on busy nights and it jas been known for parties to be divided not only over tables but floors too. After that we went to the Haagen Daz take out in Leicester Square before returning to the hotel in Docklands.

Saturday saw us trekking to my spiritual home in London, Upton Park, to buy tickets to see West Ham play Wigan that afternoon. FW had promised that she'd come to at least one home game in her life and I'd promised that I'd take Stroppy a few years ago. Thankfully we managed to get tickets. It seems that the credit crunch has hit football with 3000 fewer season ticket purchases at West Ham this year.

After that we had brunch at a local cafe, well used by Hammers supporters and then went to spend some time near the Tower before heading back. We managed to get down by Tower Bridge just after it had been raised. Seeing the road raised vertical is a great sight.

The match was great in places. West Ham scored twice in the opening 15 minutes. It was slightly off putting to have a potatoman in our vicinity who insisted on continually standing up and berating everyone for the lack of atmosphere in our stand. When you pay close on £50 for a ticket you don't always want people jumping up and down and slagging you off.

Saturday night we ate at the hotel.

I'll say about SDunday and Monday tomorrow.