Leeds, Walkabout and Portobello Road
England By: Aaron on Aug 2, 2004

Last week, I got taken up to Leeds with work to run a recruitment centre with work. Caught a train up Monday, came back on Friday. Shocking thing was it cost £140 for transport. Leeds seems like a nice city, but then I only got to see the city at night. Work consisted of ferrying applicants into waiting rooms, into interviews and into technical scenario test rooms. I felt like a bellhop for the week.

Saturday morning, we headed to a Walkabout. It is a chain of pubs established for Ex-pat Kiwis, Ozzies, Boks and slowly integrating Zims. It is cheap booze, large tv screens and good atmosphere. Anyway, we headed in to watch the South Africa vs Australia rugby game. Ozzie won, good time by all.

In the after noon we headed to Portobello road. A famous street market I hear, you might have seen it in the movie Notting Hill. We had a good look around, there are some very cool nics ‘n’ knacks there, but nothing you would really want to buy or need. It was an exceptionally hot day, and after our up tenth drink, we decided it was to go home and lay in some sunshine or at least find some shade.