London Called, A Few Days Ago

I must admit that I didn't expect London to be all that good. I mean why travel so damn far just to go to an English speaking country. Where's the challenge in that. Well was I wrong or what. London is tops.

So I survived my 13 hour flight and approx. 20 hours travel (from KL), navigated Stansted and the tube aaaaand the streets of London with ease. Checked into a hot, damp and noisy hostel and swiftly crashed out. Woke up at 3:30am lay awake for an hour or two before managing to get some more well earned shut eye.

Generator, not recommended

The following day, Tuesday? the 27th? Yeah I think so.. I started with my usual ritual of going on a New Europe free walking tour. Really good way to get your bearings and get a feel for a city. Pretty sure I ticked off most of the big sight seeing, including, but not limited to, the marble arch, buckingham palace, some other palaces, trafalger square, parliament houses, big ben, westminster abbey, probebly others that I have forgotten already.

Big Ben, phone box and if you look carefully, red double decker bus.

Thames, London Eye

Horsies rode through Hyde Park, snapped them in front of the Marble Arch

I met a nice Canadian girl, so via some coffee we went to the war museum and saw some guns and tanks. I said I wanted to see something that didn't glorify war. So we watched a movie on Human Rights Crimes, and walked through the holocaust exhibition. That was enough war for one day.  After a pint and a steak and ale pie we went to the theatre. Which was excellent actually, we saw 'The woman in black' which is a ghost story of sorts, that definitly makes you jump. A bit corny, but well worth the £20. 

Shoe phone! No wait, Austin Powers, 'who throws a shoe? that really hurt!'



We were down there, front and centre



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May have forgot to mention, indoor ice climbing!



Squirrel Chipmunk thing

Quite a day yeah, having solved my photo issues, the next installment (London days two and three) isn't too far away...