We flew from St. Petersburg to London via Riga on the first of September and met up with our friends Denis and Laura who live near London Bridge. Carnival was going on and we waded happily dancing along and buying 8 dollar beers and paying 6 bucks to use the porta-loos. I've never seen so many people in one place in my life nor do I ever need to again. It was simply mind boggling and I kept on thinking about the poor people who have to sweep up the sticky mounds of trash afterwards. Some enterprising residents were selling drinks or the use of their toilets. I bet they made a bundle, but perhaps not enough to make up for the 3 day party in their front yards. The amount of people forced them to close some of the Tube stations even and we had some weird troubles with our Oyster cards because one of the gates they just kept open. We were saying no no it was not our fault, we didn't ride for free! But they were kind of suspicious. At Laura's place we slept on a nice inflatable bed, so sweet! Watching Denis dance was awe-inspiring and we did our best to keep up, but the man is like a professional. We wandered around on a walking tour of the city center and went to the really nice and free London Museum as well as Westminster Abbey. London has some really nice places to eat and shop so we enjoyed the Strand and the ready to eat sandwich shop. Also Mark's and Spencer's food shops, wow. If only, America... you don't know what you're missing.
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