Day 2: Still alive, still no pics though...

Today was another lovely day in London. For some reason, ever since I flew in I've wanted to just start talking with a British accent and say stuff like "Cheerio". I saw some great stuff today but turned out to not manage my time as well as I liked. As the title states, I'm doing great, still alive, but this time I remembered the cord, its the damn computer that doesn't seem to acknowledge anything you plug into it. So I'll try again later...when I'm in a country where I don't speak the language probably...

My first Hostel experience

Well, for 15£/night, across the street from the British Museum, you really can't beat the price. As for the accomodations, they are a bit lacking as expected. I am currently in a 10 bed co-ed room which increases the chance of people getting up in the middle of the night and making noise...which they did, about 4 times. But as exhausted as I was yesterday I slept alright and felt fine this morning. The showers and toilets are upstairs but in fair shape. We have access to a full kitchen and get served a breakfast of cereal, toast and jam, and tea. Like I said, hard to beat the price in London where its hard to get a meal under 6£. It is really expensive here. After a night of interrupted sleep, I had breakfast and set on out.

I started the day off by jumping in the tube and finding my way to the Tower of London. Got some good pics and already decided what I wanted to post but alas I was thwarted again. The Tower Bridge is also impressive. After the tower and lunch, I headed over to St. Peters Cathedral. Another beautiful building. I showed up just in time for the 2£ tour and ended up being the only one on the tour, lucky me. The old chap giving the tour chatted away about St. Peters and it's history for 2 hours, the tour is only supposed to go an hour and a half. Most of it was good stuff but I kind of wanted to slink away on my own but he seemed pretty happy to keep on talking. I think the only reason he stopped is because I wanted to climb to the top of the cathedral and take a look around. Both of us thought they let people go up top until 4:15. When I headed for the entrance to the stairs at 4:00, I was informed that they closed at quarter to 4...drat. A minor set back but I needed to cross the Thames on the millenium bridge to check out Shakespeare's Theatre of the round and the Tate Modern.

I didn't go inside the round theatre thing and instead headed over to the Tate Modern to see some modern art. The first stuff I saw were exhibits of modern art that were the "I can splash paint blind folded on canvas too" type. Moving on I finally found the good stuff like Picasso and Monet.

Well I leave London tomorrow for Paris. I'll try the pics again later.