Denime 66xx World Tour

[SLAB]

Ok, just got back from a city trip to London. Needless to say London is a great city and I thoroughly enjoyed myself going all tourist and shopping mode. (my apologies for the quality of the pictures; they were all taken with a smartphone)

 

My kids enjoying themselves in the waiting hall to catch the Eurostar train

 

 

Upon arrival in London we couldn't check in straight away into our hotel so decided to start sightseeing immediately. Underground at Euston, our home base.

 

 

We took the underground to the Tower Bridge and grabbed one of the water taxis to Westminister to get a waterside view of some of the historical landmarks. The weather was great.

 

 

The Needle building and HMS Belfast. Wished I could have visited this battleship but my travel companions were not interested.

 

 

Big Ben which is called so not because of the size of the tower but the size of the bell :-)

 

 

On our way to Buckingham Palace.

 

[SLAB]

Taking a walk across Piccadilly Circus. Japan Centre is located in one of the side streets so my wife wanted to pick up some food stuff.

 

 

J Crew is also located nearby

 

 

A bit further is were shopping became more interesting to me.

 

Red Wing store; checked out the new models; really liked the Merchants model in ebony

 

 

Evisu and Filson store fronts

 

 

 

Cinch shop; all LVC items; saw some items I've never seen before, very nice inside and definitely worth a visit

 

[SLAB]

Rivet & Hide was one of my primary shopping destinations; they have a great selection of brands and the service is top notch. Junior is a wonderful person; I had the chance to see him at work hemming a pair of UES 400T on a union special. I bought a Flat Head tee and leather bracelet.

 

 

 

I had hoped to check out Lewis Leather as well but unfortunately they were closed.

 

 

that's all for the first day

Edited August 21, 2016 by SLAB

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Nice start! I'd love to go to London again

[SLAB]

second day of our London trip

 

Mostly cloudy but still decent temperature; we started lining early to get inside the Natural Museum of History

 

 

My kids loved the dino's and Kobe earthquake simulator (wife not so much since she experienced the quake first hand)

 

 

Next stop The Science Museum next to the Natural History museum

 

Ford model T

 

 

On our way to Harrod's we passed these lovely shops

 

 

 

Wanted to visit the Vintage Showroom because they sell Timeworn/Atlast clothing. They had this amazing blue chambray shirt with blue buttons but 235£ was a bit on the high side for me.

 

[SLAB]

we then proceeded to Covent garden

 

these guys were amazing and highly entertaining

 

 

the Real McCoy's!!! loved seeing and handling all the RMC stuff in person. I was especially impressed with the Buco leather jackets

 

 

I wanted to try on the new batch of the Joe McCoy 991BK. It got the approval of the wife but I hesitated. Came back the next day and picked them up anyway :-)

 

 

closed off the day with dinner at Ed's diner. Not too bad; especially loved the onion rings

 

 

[louisbosco]

always wanted to visit london. damn. i have to make that happen one day.. great updates..

[Bobbo]

Great stuff SLAB. I really miss London, it's a great city.

[SLAB]

last day in the City

 

start of the day

 

 

The British Museum; probably my favorite museum

 

 

The gift shop; My son about to go on a rampage

 

 

since there's so much to see, we limited our visit to the Assyrian, Egyptian, American and Japanese halls; some of the highlights;

 

 

 

for the fans; the katana is from Sukesada; one of my favorite swordsmiths/schools from the Edo period

 

[SLAB]

 

 

 

 

afterwards more shopping! my kids wanted to see the M&M's shop. I had no idea there could exist so much promo material for a candy...

 

 

all good things come to an end so we took the Eurostar back to Belgium

[SLAB]

and not to forget what this thread is all about;

 

[Maynard Friedman]

Really good Slab, great to see some views of my city. Where in Belgium do you live?

[unders]

Dressing up as a knight and going to the M&M shop all in the same day, your boy's living the dream Slab.

Quality updates.

Edited August 22, 2016 by unders

[SLAB]

Sorry guys for the lack of updates; nothing much happened the past couple of weeks worth reporting. Been wearing the jeans on and off because it's been very hot and I also wore some chino's etc

 

Anyways this weekend is the peace festival at my city; it's a commemoration of the liberation by the British from the nazi's. Since 1948 it was combined into a balloon festival which is special because the balloons take off in the middle of the city from the market square.

The past ten years it has also growed into a festival with lots of squares where bands play all kind of music and a world fair with lots of delicious food stuff.

 

The festival is three days long but since they forecasted the best weather on saturday, we decided to go on that day because it is the most chance balloons will actually take off.

 

In the morning I first had to take my oldest son to soccer game

 

 

arrived at the scene when the regular hot air balloons were taking off

 

 

wearing the Denime's; the model has really grown on me; I like it a lot, not skinny and not wide

 

[SLAB]

About 40 hot air balloons took off in quick succession but the most attention always goes to the special shape balloons.

 

 

 

 

This motor shaped balloon was the biggest present but unfortunately since it was too late in the evening they decided against flying but still a great sight

 

 

closed off the day with fireworks

 

[SLAB]

just realized my leg of the tour has come to an end. Who is next in line to receive them? I'll give them a machine wash before sending them out

[louisbosco]

i don't think the list has gotten that far. 

[SLAB]

anyone interested in participating?

[Cucoo]

I could imagine trying to squeeze into them (I guess they'll stretch to 30?), but I'll be leaving for 2 weeks of Greece next Monday and beyond that I don't have anything exciting planned the next few months...

[Hendsch]

Cucoo they will stretch to a 30 pretty easily. You should have a go at them.

[clt3]

How are the rise and thighs on them? Waist is good but might not be the ideal thighs or rise.

[Cucoo]

Sounds good, but as I said - I'll be out of the country until the first week of October so I can't really receive them until then. Also there's no exciting travels to Japan in my near future. So if you guys don't mind that

Of course I'd also be happy to just join the list and have someone else a go before me.

[Hendsch]

Any updates on this? 

[louisbosco]

yeah any updates? cucoo, you gonna have them??

[Cucoo]

I'd be happy to join in! 

[louisbosco]

go for it mate! they should still be with slab i reckon.. oh and flash, i reckon you should have a go at it eventually!

[SLAB]

cucoo, hit me up with your address; i'll have them out to you asap

i'll give them a lukewarm machine wash before sending out

cheers

[Cucoo]

PM'ed - looking forward to joining the tour!

 

Also, whoever wants to go next after me (I'm in Germany), maybe speak up now to avoid further delays

[louisbosco]

ooo. a bahn storm video at top speed sounds complimentary...   really envious of you guys and the autobahn (and nurburgring)

[Cucoo]

Well, my car (Dacia Duster 1.4, 105hp) tops out at only 180/190 km/h 

 

Here's the thing about the Autobahn: it sure is nice that you can floor it and go as fast as traffic allows. But, there's always someone overtaking a truck while going only 10 km/h more than the truck does, or trucks overtaking trucks... and while you're building up speed again after slowing down for stuff like this, you get hunted yourself by BMWs and Audis - to them, you're the nuisance creeping along at 160 km/h... most of the time, it's far less stressful to just set your cruise control to 130 km/h and go with the overall flow. Easier on your wallet, too

 

In fact, having driven over much of Europe with speed limits of 130 km/h in place (Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, France...), it's usually a lot smoother and more relaxing type of highway driving.

 

BUT - yes, it's fun to go as fast as your car can go when the autobahn is empty