Last Saturday was Waitangi Day, the national day of New Zealand. In London, that means all the young New Zealanders and their friends dress up in black (the color of NZ's sports teams) and ride the Circle Line around central London, drinking at each stop. I went to meet my friends for brunch, and we observed big groups of drunk youths wandering around. We didn't know how crazy things were getting until we reached our neighborhood Tube station (Gloucester Road) and saw literally a thousand people crowding the sidewalks (see picture above). We made the mistake of stopping in a convenient store for snacks before trying to get out of London to visit a park, and while we were in the store the station closed due to the huge drunk crowd. Waitangi Day would have ruined our Saturday, but we ended up going to the British Museum instead, which is a pretty cool place!
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