Adventurous Ranger: Weekend = fun!

Another weekend just passed by. I do not know what it is with London, for some reason it feels like time is going much faster here. On tuesday it will be 3 weeks since I arrived.

Even though I am not completely over my cough and sore throat I thought it was time to go out and have some fun.
In a previous post I mentioned that I wanted to make a list with things I want to see while I am here. On that list was and still is Camden Town. I went there last year with to Austrian guys that I had met at The Green Man. Unfortunately we came quite late and the market had shut down. Only some food stands were open, and a Cuban bar - that was it.
So I decided I should go and have a look at The Staples Market. And wooow! So many people, so many stands with everything that is possible to sell. I got blown away. Even though I spend 4 hours there, I did not see everything - I have to go back some day.

At 17:00 o'clock I went back to the hostel to get ready for an appointment. As I have not got any network over here yet, except for the danes, I was recommended to look at the website chouchsurfing.com. It is not only for people who are offering or looking for couch to sleep on, but also people who are looking for others to hang out with. So I tried, and wrote to this guy and asked if he wanted to hang out this weekend. Saturday we went to this Grand Opening at London Pleasure Gardens (oh yes, when he wrote me and proposed to go there I had second thougts about him - pleasure gardens?!). It is located in south east London a bit further out than Greenwich - which is quite far away - especially when living north of London. Anyway, we gave it a shot and we were so dissapointed (at least I was - think he was too). It was supposed to be some kind of festival with events going on, but nothing really happened except for some artist performing.
We went around, saw what there was to see and then we decided to call it the night. With that I mean for him and I. I went back to Hampstead, stopped by Tesco around 22:00 and bought a sandwich for dinner.

Came back and our new roommate asked me if I wanted to join her, she was going to Camden to party. I thought sure, why not?! Got ready and went out and had a blast. Met some Swedish girls and guy (one of the roommates friends).
There are some things I wonder about London. One of them I mentioned in the beginning, but the other one is; why do all the clubs and bars have to close so early?! Back home we are used to clubs closing around 5 or 6 in the morning, but here it is around 2 to 3 at night. We had a good time out anyway :)