London Day Three

WOke up in the travelodge, delightfully cool (doesn't get cool till about four in the morning, swear to bob, and even then ONLY if you have a fan running)-
showered, woke up kriz... before noon, magically-
who then also showered...

got (gasp) McDonalds so that we wouldn't be starting the day on an empty stomach, then down into the tube again- alll the way down the line to Tower Hill, where...
we walked.

past Big ben and the giant fucking Ferris Wheel (that does not move) and all the fairly awesome various Architecture and FUCKING LAMPPOSTS (they're awesome. stfu) and memorials and whatnot, including some thigns that are for some reason in London instead of Egypt.
because in Egypt they would at least still be intact. (acid rain likes to kill shit.)

.. all the while narrowly avoiding tour groups (ARGH NOT THE TOUR GROUPS)

Also.
I'm fairly certain the sewers in London are cleaner than the Thames is. (Just Sayin')

Ehh.. walkwalkwalk... we veer off our original path at some point (there was a bridge in the way, I think) and head past. . . .

The London Church of Scientology.
SCIENTOLOGY.
it's like.. right next to the giant motherfucking cathedral. Which makes it funnier.

Anyway, we go around the (St. james?) Cathedral, just onto the grounds, since it's stupidly expensive to get in and they probably dont allow photography anyway...

ah, back toward the Thames, and we cross the Millenium Bridge (fuunnnn~) and end up at the Globe Theatre (whooo) there they're just about to begin a showing... and we nom some ice creams and water on the steps.
Go to get some more water and..
woman falls down the stairs D:
got a nasty bleed/bruise thing on her hand, too, and kriz jumped right hte fuck up to help her... a few people did, actually. One man went up to the ice cream truck to see if there was anything cold to put on her hand, another woman provided some napkins to help.. and kriz offered to pay for the drink that was provided in place of some ice (some how the ice cream truck didn't have any ice) but they politely declined, saying there was no way they could do that-

a rep comes down from the Globe and offerd to help the lady up to the theatre, to which she replies (in good humour) "back up there?"

... didn't get any photos of the Globe, though, which is a shame, because i HAD meant to.

hmhmhm, some walking and a right later, we found ourselves in an older part of london... which was amazing inand of itself, because.. it looks more like what yout hink of when you think of london, instead of the british New York that the rest of it strikes me as-

the first thing we found in London Proper (or so we call it) was..
The Clink-
a private museum in what was once an actual prison...
we probably would have passed it by, but the guy pretendign to be a guard out front was absolutely brilliant ad sold it to us nearly immediately, so at 3.50 or so a pop, we went in and dawdled along it...
bit difficult to read some of the plaques and such, but found out an amazing amount of htings- like that that whole section of london ahs upwards of FIVE prisons, once, and that at one point "Fiddling" was illegal (because it was annoying, i guess?) and that later fiddling was synonymous with panhandling in general-

and we got to play with some ball&chain type devices and.. just overall it was a great time..

Left and went to look for the guy out front to tlak to him again, saw his coat on a short post so i claimed He Shrunk- then he pops out from behind a sign chiding me for being clever >>
anyway, he was cleanin' up (some fat kid knocked over the box with the pamphlets- so he pointed his fake sword at him and the kid got the fuck outta there)...
anywho, kriz snapped a picture of him and we went on our way....

got some more photos of the architecture and found a SHINY TUNNEL (hooray) and then it's through the Queen's Walk toward the Tower bridge...

A Jazz band was playing Live along the walk, too, which was amazing~ (seriously)....

across the bridge and back down to the tube and then on to the hotel..

and then we watched The Hunchback of Notre dame.

HOORAY.

edit: 11/3/2010
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