London

London

London was really a lot of fun although I really have to go back and do more stuff. I was really tired on Sunday after my adventure in Bath and so I was easily overwhelmed by the amount of things to do there. I think I forgot that it is a real city and more like NYC than like Oxford... those being the only two cities that I have any familiarity with at all. Bath fell in to the "Oxford" catagory.

Anyway, Sunday morning I went to London and promptly bought a hop on/off tour bus ticket because I had really no idea where I should go or what I should do or how to get there. It was really a good idea. As I rode around the city in the top of the bus, I realized that I needed to come back again and do more stuff. I am well aware of how long it takes me to do a museum so I have resigned myself to not going to all of them. I did get off the bus and go to the Tower of London and the National Art Gallery. I stopped and had linner in a very nice pub which I chose because it had the same name as one of my favourite pubs in Oxford... The King's Arms. Had a very good meat pie. At 5pm I went to the National Gallery for a little while again and then watched some really amusing red Giraffs in Trifalgar Sqare. There was some sort of huge opera thing going on with the girraffs and people dressed in red feathers... I have no idea what it was about. At 6pm I walked over to the Ghost Walking Tour by Gaslight/Pub Crawl that came with my bus ticket. The tour was really fun and the guide, Paul, was really quite amusing. I met a very nice girl from Baja Mexico called Maru. She and I walked around together and talked a bit. She was trying to get a hold of her friend in London to find out where he lives so that she could stay there until 5am when her bus to venice leaves. She never did get a hold of him and our tour guide was kind enough to show her where a late night Spanish Bar and a 24hour Internet Cafe were. We exchanged emails and I hope that she replies soon because I want to know how she fared. I had a bit of an adventure getting back to the bus station (I was really close to it- just on the other side of the block. I just didn't know that) but a soon as I saw it I was in the clear. I love the 24 hour London to Oxford express! So wonderful, So cheap, So close to St. Peters! I was so tired that I didn't even turn on my computer when I got back in. I just went straight to sleep.