Despite it being sold out, Sarah and myself chanced our luck, and headed to Wembley Arena on Thursday night, and looked to buy some tickets off one of the kind folk (read: scalpers), outside the stadium. One guy was selling them for £70 a piece, but I got him down to £50 each, which I was happy to pay considering cost price was £43 anyway... His wife was Australian, and he spoke to us about going to Australia, so I'm not sure if that helped my cause....
Once we got into the stadium, it's a pretty amazing sight - think Burswood, but 1000 times more extravagant, and the atmosphere is electric. A weird thing I noticed here, and elsewhere around the UK, is their really relaxed attitude towards drinking. You can pretty much drink ANYWHERE in public - in fact, only this month was drinking banned on public transport. You can be walking through the streets, and someone will be holding a pint glass from the pub 30 metres down and across the road. There's also considerably less drunken hooligans - everyone is so well behaved and friendly and it's an awesome atmosphere.
Anyway, Def Leppard and supporting band Whitesnake were absolutely amazing, and I don't think a concert in Australia could ever come close. The place was packed, and the atmosphere insane.




Def Leppard @ Wembley Arena
Yesterday we went exploring around London a bit more, and went to Trafalgar Square. Unfortunately, they had some 'Veteran's Day' event on, so a lot of the Square was fenced off - but we got in the obligatory photos anyway.



Trafalgar Square
We wandered down to the Thames again, and this time saw the Tower of London, and Trinity Square, the latter of which is pretty spectacular - all the buildings around here are so nicely built.


Trinity Square

Tower Of London
With half a day still to kill, we headed over to South Kensington and went to the Natural History Museum which was once again, an amazing building in itself. After exploring a variety of exhibits which mainly consisted of stuffed animals and dinosaur skeletons, we headed off back to the hostel.




Natural History Museum
Last night we had a couple of drinks back here, and I dared to buy some Fosters ahah, which wasn't as bad as expected. I found it amusing that my first real encounter with Fosters was in London...
We've booked a 2:30pm train to Edinburgh, which we got for about half price because it's at night (we arrive at nearly 10pm). We've also have booked in a hostel there for another three nights.
Not much to do until our train leaves.. so we have a couple of hours here before we leave.
Mark