Notes From A Summer Holiday (episode1)

BPC will most probably not be blogging for quite a few days now. Reason is a rather good one. One of the best actually ... BPC and Arfiman are on holiday.

In a very nice English house in Croydon. Where we wake up at whatever time we want and choose from a seemingly endless choice of breakfast options and then bum around till we need to catch a bus and then a tube into London. And then we spend all the money we've saved all year. Ah, I love London. And shopping, of course. Shopping in London? An exceptionally delectable combination.

We met up with D. yesterday. At the British Motor Show. The motorshow was quite entertaining. It warrants a whole entry on its own, but lets just say that I did quite a lot of pointing an laughing. What at? Well, here's a taster:

1. A bunch of people standing around a Lumina Coupe, starinig in awe and some inside, caressing the interior. SUCKERS! I really wanted to poke a few and tell them I drive one IN THE SAME COLOR everyday. LOL.

2. A bunch of people lining up for hours to be let into an enclosure to be able to 'touch' an Aston Martin on display. ROFLMAO. In Dubai, all you would have to do is walk into the dealership. And here were people who spent good money and hours taking a bus, then a tube and then a train to do what? To touch a car. ROFLMAO.

3. A HUGE BUNCH of people gawking at the car Max has just bought. I videoed it for Max, so he can have a good laugh.

Speaking of videoing, BPC did a bigtime boo-boo. She broke her camera. Fucking cheap point and shoot digicams. I'm never travelling without my Nikon EVER again!

So last night Qasim bhai was taking everyone out to dinner and we drove for a loooooong time to get to ... Edgeare road. Noooooooooooooo ... did we come all the way to London to eat Arabic food? It was surprisingly good. We stuffed ourselves silly and even though I kept my eyes peeled later for Dubai and Abu Dhabi number plates, we were totally disappointed to find none.

We did however spot a car - the driver of which we are ready to bet money on was most definitely an Emirati. Lol .... this big ass Mercedes S Class in TWO SHADES OF PINK. No kidding. Honest to goodness. Heh. I have a picture ... I shall put it up later :)

So we did some fun car spotting before saying goodbye to qasim bhai and family - who incidentally are leaving on holiday to Tanzania. Wow. That's a country I'd like to go to.

Speaking of coutnry's one would like to go to, the motorshow had an interactive display where visitors could leave comments on what their ideal ride would be and BPC spotted at least two about Dubai. Yay! AND she spotted a little boy in a kandoora by the quay. Go figure.

So,even though it was late after dining on Edgeware Road and car-spotting, Khaloo decided to give us a Hussain's Tour Of London By Night and even though I was tired and it was FREEZING, it was fun.

I saw some actual World War II bullet holes and the building from which the British used to rule all their colonies way back when and lots of interesting stuff along those lines.

Oh, and let me not omit the mention of day before yesterday. We were invited to Jumoiz's housewarming and being the sweethearts they were, they totally surprised Arfiman and BPC with a cake-in-advance for our second wedding anniversary - which both of us had almost forgotten was just a few days away. Wow! That so caught me off-guard. Jumoiz are such sweethearts.

Right now we are waiting for Khaloo and Salma to come back with some croissants so we can stuff our faces before going into town. Plan for today? Lots of shopping at Boots for me: hair stuff. face stuff .. yum yum yum. Lots of comic shopping for Arfiman and fish n chips for lunch. I hear there's a BBQ planned for tonight in the backyard.

I love summer holidays :)