London 2

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything interesting enough, but finally I have something to write about on here. Last Thursday I went down to London with Andrew and David, for a multicultural experience. Multicultural because I’m English, Andrew is Scottish and David is Rwandese, and we had dinner at an Italian restaurant and were served by a Russian and a Polish girl.

As David was flying back to Kenya from the US and stopped off in London for a week, so we went down to show him the sights. And see them ourselves – it’s a long time since I’ve been to London, and there are a lot of things I haven’t seen before – or haven’t seen since I was too young to really remember them.

To get to London I drove to Milton Keynes, parked in one of the thousands of cheap parking spaces they have in that weird gridlike city of theirs, and took a twenty quid train down to Euston – which was about sixty quid cheaper than it would have been going direct from Coventry. Because by the time I was in Milton Keynes it was late enough not to be peak prices any more.

We all had day travelcards so we could take as many tubes as we wanted, which made it really easy to get around. We started at Buckingham Palace where we saw the changing of the guard, moved on to Westminster, then Nelson’s Column (photos with the lions), Oxford Street (bought some DVDs in HMV), Covent Garden (escape artist and lunch), St. Paul’s Cathederal (now available in white), the Millenium Bridge (it was closed last time I was there because it was too wobbly), the Tate Modern (to use the toilets), along the Thames to Tower Bridge, along the Docklands Light Railway to Canary Wharf, back along the Jubilee line to Picadilly, dinner at ‘Gourmet Pizza’ on Swallow Street (excellent food, but not at gourmet prices) and then back home. By which time I was well and truly exhausted!