Rich, Walter, Swess Hit London - 10/3-5

Middlebury takes London! Anthony's friends Rich, Walter and Swess came out in full force this week/weekend to help us get to know London - particularly its pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants. We met up with local London phenoms John Madden, Keith Magliana and Carter Westfall. A more impressive crew has never been seen.

Walter, Rich and Swess started with some sightseeing on Friday. They tried desperately to make these guards flinch, but they failed.



On to the Tower of London where apparently Rich's hair encountered 50 mile per hour winds similar to what Swess and Anthony encountered at Old Head in Ireland.

But Rich made up for the bad hair day by frolicking around with the street folk.


Friday night, we returned to a special place with cowhide chairs - Gaucho Grill.



Then we went two doors down to Cuckoo (aptly named) Club for the remainder of the night.


After waking up, Anthony had a brillant idea to run to the store, get eggs, bacon, sausage and the materials needed for bloody mary's. Swess started to cook when - big trouble. We forgot to put the vent on above the stove and suddenly the fire alarm started blaring and the special fire curtains began to descend. We tried everything possible to shut off the alarm but couldnt do it. We tried to get in touch with the owner to no avail. There was only one choice left.....


Luckily, after about 3 hours the loud pounding noise of the fire alarm was shut off by the firemen, but the fire curtains were not lifting so our friend Rich was stuck in the kitchen stranded.


Swess and Anthony lifted the fire curtain for rich to get out, but he had a more important mission - to save the bloody marys....


Once our hearing was regained, we went to Notting Hill to a pub to watch some "football".



But the pub + the secret ingredient below.....


Can cause this.....


Thanks to Swess, Walter and Rich for making the trip. Thanks to Madden, Magliana and Carter for keeping things interesting!