I woke up to an empty hostel room the morning I was leaving Amsterdam. I found a place that made cheap crepes used up the rest of my euros and headed over to the train station on the way to the airport. Next stop was London.
I had planned to meet up with the guys I met in Ibiza and we were going to do a weekend in London and see what it had to offer.
Luke picked me up form the airport and we went to meet the other guys for dinner. The plan that night was to go to Fabric. I’d heard stories about this place on my travels and heard that it was a must see.
We pre gamed at Jon’s flat which was an amazing set up. All of us are more into the music than anything so we tended to head to the clubs earlier than later. Arrived at Fabric at 10pm left it at 6am when it closed. Upon enetering the club you think your walking down to the deepest tube station. The atmosphere was dark and so was the music. I can’t really describe it in words, as it was nothing like dubstep and nothing like house. The combination of the two with really dark eerie melodies, along with heavy heavy bass lines. It was such a change from everything I’ve ever heard and yet there were a couple thousand people raging to it.
The next day we hung out planned to go to Annie Mac at Koko until I found her twitter and realized the show was sold out. We were all pretty gutted as we had our minds set on going there. We toured around Brick lane that night just to check it out. It got to 11pm and we decided to head back to Fabric as it was a tech house night so it would’ve been a bit different than the night before. Entering the crowd the music was a bit more uplifting but still so under-ground. I hadn’t heard anything like it. The cool thing about Fabric is there are different 3 different rooms, balconies and lounge areas. The other cool thing about it is that the building is over 800 years old and used to be an old meat market. If you look up the Smithfield Meat market you will see that plenty of animals and meat have made it’s way through this place. I think it added to that eerie dark feeling you got when you were in there. It accompanied the music perfectly. We didn’t leave that place until 8am slept most of the next day and it was off to Essex for me with Luke.
I decided to head to the coast with Luke just to see a part of the UK that many people don’t see. We met up with two other friends from Ibiza and just watched a movie. The next day went shopping around Clacton-on-sea and Coldchester.
I caught the 9:30pm train back to Liverpool St. and headed Heather Bijmans. I stayed with her for the last 4 nights in London. It was great because she lived in Camden Town. There’s always stuff going on there and the tube station was right by there. That was low-key as I was able to sleep in and go to bed at a reasonable hour. We went out for drinks and dinner for three nights and she brought me to a few art galleries.
Thursday night was my last day/night overseas. It had definitely hit me and I started feeling like I didn’t want to go home. That day we went shopping and met up with my buddy Reon who I’d met in Nice. We all parted ways in the afternoon and I’d met back up with Daniella and Vicky for dinner and drinks. It was such a cool feeling hanging out with them as the last time I saw them together was 6 years ago on a cruise. We’d all caught up on the last 6 years of our lives and that was it.
The morning before I left headed into Camden town one last time saw Vicky’s friend Alex at his shop called Speedball. Picked up a Rebel Eight shirt. Bought a piece of art from a street vendor from the famous artist Bansky.
I got on the tube and 26 stops later I was at Heathrow. Flew Air Canada again and had three seats to myself. I watched 3 movies and got cut off from the free alcohol. Same deal on the flight from Montreal to Toronto.
This trip was one hell of an experience and I didn’t think doing it alone would be that much fun. I met so many amazing people who I plan to stay in contact with and hopefully meet up with somewhere down the road.
