"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
07/02/2018 at 07:10 • Filed to: None
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"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
07/02/2018 at 07:10 • Filed to: None | 6
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I am currently on a holiday (gotta speak proper posh over here) to the UK and for the last day in London, my girlfriend and I have gone to the first day of Wimbledon. For those of you not familiar with tennis, Wimbledon is the annual SO BRITISH tennis tournament that takes place at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in London. Part of the tradition is queueing up all day (or all weekend) in order to get into the event without an advance purchase ticket. If you want a ticket into one of the main courts where the big names play, you have to camp out overnight for one of the ~500 tickets available for each court. But if you just want onto the grounds to sit at courts 3-17 or just watch on the screens outside, you wait for many hours the day of. There’s also chances to get into the main courts once you get in in between games but that is going to be a luck thing. Either way, I will enjoy the lovely weather and chat with those in the queue. It’s certainly a great way to learn the local British way.
The funny part is my girlfriend managed to get a ticket online through their website so she is inside at center court now! So eventually I’ll get in there and enjoy the event. Here’s some pictures she sent me from inside:
And now that it’s been about 2 hours in the queue, I just got a free donut!
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/02/2018 at 07:46 |
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my cousin lives nearby with her husband and kids.
she goes each year
Svend
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/02/2018 at 08:23 |
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Why only the one ticket to get in?
Just keep an eye out for Cliff Richard, if someone puts a microphone near him, run, run like the wind.
Make sure you get some strawberries and some champagne afterwards. If you can get Red Princess or Jubilee’s strawberries all the better but the common Elsanta is still very nice. Don’t eat the strawberries cold but let them come to room temperature for at least 20 minutes. The perfect summer accompaniment. or pop into an ASDA or large supermarket and get a bottle of J.P. Chenet Ice Wine, serve in a large wine glass (not a highball tumbler like me) with two cubes of ice and sit back.
I hope your enjoying your stay here in the U.K.
If you want a good non alcohol summer drink, pop to the supermarket and try the Robinson’s Pressed Pear and Elderflower Cordial.
Dilute 1:6 and enjoy.
If you Google these products, it should tell you if and what supermarkets stock it.
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Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
> Svend
07/02/2018 at 11:47 |
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Only one ticket because it was really hard to get one. And to even get in I had to queue up for 5 and a half hours lol. But she was very nice and let me in for the last match so I’m watching the third match at center court. Really awesome!
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Svend
> Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
07/02/2018 at 11:56 |
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Glad your enjoying it.