London – Day 7

We get up this morning and the weather has done a complete 180, it’s cold and rainy.  I decide to try and search the net for a pub that is showing the Hawks v Sydney game and after a long search I only come across two pubs, one is miles away and the other is 2 tube stops away in pretty much the next suburb of Fitzrovia.....you little beautyyyyy! We get dressed and head down there to check out the game not knowing what to expect and we think if the pub turns out to be crap we’ll just head off and do something else. We get out of the underground station at Regent’s Park and from here we need to walk about 400m to the pub but it is raining to the point that we need umbrellas so we stop at a shop selling cheap crappy ones that will probably only last us about a day and we fork over the £10 for 2 of them. We continue walking looking for the pub which is called Jetlag Sports bar. It’s a pretty easy walk and we are the first to arrive just before 10:30am. The bar maid invites us in and puts the telly on and within 5 minutes the footy is on and we are about 20 minutes from bounce down. Over the course of the next 20 minutes a few other guys rock up to watch the footy and the NRL which is also being shown on another telly in the same spot over our shoulder. This is a great little pub and considering it’s getting colder outside and the rain is not letting up we feel justified in sitting here all morning having a few drinks and watching the footy rather than being out touristing. It was made even better when the Hawks gave the Swans and old fashion belting. Once the game is over we get back on the tube and head to Piccadilly Circus so the kids can stock up on all the trinkets (shit) they want to buy. There are a million of these little trinket shops around and given the chance the kids would visit every one of them. We made a deal with them after the second day, do not enter another one of these shops and on the last day of each place you can go crazy. So after they have wasted their dough purchased their trinkets, we head back to Covent Garden for some late lunch. The weather is still dodgy so we find somewhere warm and undercover. After lunch we head back to the apartment to pack up our gear so we don’t have to do it tomorrow morning. All we have to do tomorrow now is give the apartment a quick clean before making our way to the train station for the next leg of the holiday, Edinburgh. The weather has fined up by the time we head out for dinner which is good for our last night. We don’t wander far though, there is too many good restaurants close by to our apartment. The wood fired pizza at Rossopomodoro’s is fantastic and afterwards we stop for our standard late night coffee on the way home. We’ll miss London but the time has come to move on.

Watching the game at Jetlag Sports Bar - Go Hawks!!

Pano of the Regent's Park tube station