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The London Eye
Finally, I went on the London Eye after wanting to do it for years. Some relatives were visiting London and thus the opportunity arose.
Went to a sweat lodge
Almost a month ago, I was at a friend's birthday party up at a pub in Kings Cross - ciao Roberto! We were dancing to Balkan dance music played by Dj Penny Metal. What fun it was. There was even some people doing Cossack dancing. I later got talking to a geezer by the name of Steve and he mentioned he was going to a North American Ojibwa sweat lodge and I was welcome to come along. I did know a little about sweat lodges being Canadian. I thought, this is something I want to do. I called Steve up a few weeks later and got the details.
Below are some blurry photos from Roberto's birthday.
We did in Farham, Surrey just outside London. It involved sitting in complete darkness in a tent and wearing towels while cherry red hot rocks were covered with water to release steam. It got so so hot in there but then that is the point. There was 10 of us in there; it was filled to capacity. There was 4 or was it 5 rounds to it; one round involved a smoking a pipe with the flap to the tent open so we could see what we were doing. Every round 6 rocks are added to the pile. The rocks were heated on a fire near the lodge; so before every round, the rocks where shovelled in.