Sunday 29 September 2013

The Hounds of Hampstead Heath

Yesterday was a big day of walking around London with my wife's sister and brother-in-law who live in London. I think we walked in total for 9 hours, it felt pretty impressive and it was a great way to see the city. We started our walking bus in Hampstead Heath, I was pretty amazing having a gigantic park in the middle of a city! I also noted that it was a place where lots of people walked their dogs, or hounds.

                             

It made me think, Hampstead Heath could be a good setting for a game of Empire of the Dead (or two). After all it most likely was haunted by a different bread of hound in 1988, Lycaon. 

My Lycaons in London

After Hampstead Heath we walked through regents park; went through a couple of squares; wet to Gordon's for wine and cheese; we also went to a couple of pubs for beer while walking past Big Ben; the shard; the Tate modern and more exciting stuff. 

                           

We then took. The tube to China Town for dinner. I continue to be impressed with the tube and transport system, mainly how vast and expansive it is, as well as its age. 

                           

The walls in this part look a little bit like a Dalek. 

On the way home we walked past on the way home we went to a bar with 27 beers on tap and this shop:

                         

It looked like a very cool store, plus love the classic film Forbidden Planet. Taking a closer look at the shop I thought although there is plenty of cool models they were all rather expensive and wouldn't improve my life a whole lot. For example the 50pound 4th doctor scarf.

                         

We finished off out night by taking a double decker bus home, sitting at the front of the top story. 

10 comments:

  1. Once again because I made this post on an ipad formatting is a bit off.

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  2. Very cool day out then. Looks liked fun!

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  3. Sounded like a damn nice day out but nine hours of walking....I would have died!

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    1. Cheers Francis. The walking surprisingly didn't kill me although I felt it the next day!

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  4. What a great way to see London. I love how you manage to link so many things back to gaming!

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    1. Thanks Paul, it has been a bit of fun linking things back.

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  5. Good to see you enjoying London, and good point about the Heath in London, it would be a welcome chance to break up terrain on the board with half city and half rural, until I get more buildings made, for EotD!

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    1. Thanks Scott. I agree it would be a good way to make a half and half board. I recall we played a game like that, ironically it was my supernatural branch who started in the rural area and lycaons in town.

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  6. There are a number of notable people who used to live around the heath - didn't Keats live around those parts, and other writers from Evelyn Waugh to George Orwell (to cover the political spectrum) as well lived near by. Perhaps a faction of famous writers could be in order for EOTD? In fact, I think some were sculpted by Westwind weren't they?

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