Covent Garden

Today’s tour started off at Covent Garden, a marketplace known for its Royal Opera House and street performers. We got off the station and were just about to check the happenings and some shopping spots when we came across a huge crowd formed into a semi-circle. Standing amidst all the pairs of curious eyes and ears were two fine gentlemen dressed in suits, one soap box, and a unicycle which, as far as my eyes could have guesstimated from up close, was about 3 meters tall (that’s approx. 10′ for all you non-metric-unit-users). How lucky of us to just have arrived on time to witness some funky street stunt show.

First, the right guy started snacking on his apple, then he juggled two machetes. While snacking on the apple. The left guy then made some gross gag of eating the apple straight from the right guy’s mouth. I friggin’ swear. It was so yucky it impressed me.

A volunteer joined them later on to help hold the unicycle up, while the stunt man tries to get on the saddle. Actually, it’s child’s play. Watch:

But that didn’t end there! Little Scott from the audience was asked to throw some pins for the unicycle-guy to catch. It took some minutes for Scottie to toss the pins right as his cast range was quite limited due to his height.

Ooooh, now that made the audience’s heart melt. The two stooges ended their show with an exchange juggling act. The guy on the soap box threw his pins to the guy on the unicycle while juggling and vice versa. Great show.

The street performers got an enormous round of applause and a generous amount of donations.

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Nearest Tube Station: Covent Garden on the Piccadilly Line