Okay, just pictures for now (battery is dying!) – let’s see if I can do one sentence captions here…

Royal London Tour.

Changing of the guard, sort of.

Trafalgar Square (ex-home of many pigeons, apparently).

From Tate Modern Museum.

Covent Garden Street Performers.

Westminster Bridge.

Big Ben.

London Eye.

They totally drive on the wrong side of the road.

I’m in Blackpool tonight, and will be heading to Lake District tomorrow.

Farewell for now!

Who knew internet would be so difficult to find in London?! Sheesh.

Okay, so quick catch up…

First day in London, went on a free walking tour of Old London, which was actually really fantastic. They covered all the main sights, and gave history and cool facts about them. Quite possibly one of the few exciting tours I’ve been on, ha!
(The tour guide guy even sort of dissed Arizona… or at least the guy who paid millions for the London Bridge, actually thinking it was the Tower Bridge…)

Then I went off in search of a blue police box, which I had heard was at an area called Earl’s Court. So I hopped on the underground and went over there. Except, instead of finding a Tardis-like object, I found this:

A Doctor Who Exhibition! Which, I knew there was one in London (I was debating between it and the one in Cardiff), but it was a complete non-intentional thing ending up there. Anyway, I decided to go. It focused on the new series, which was actually pretty cool.

I think that was pretty much the basics of it. On, and lots of public transport.

After some 30 hours of traveling, I finally made it to London this morning!

I had a 7 hour layover in Calgary yesterday, during which I left the airport in hopes of finding a coat (as I left mine at home…), which was actually pretty unsuccessful. I had asked the bus driver where whatever stop I needed was, and he said he would let me know when to get off. After a while we were sitting at a light and he says “oh, you wanted 32nd and 20th? [or whatever it was] I think we just passed it.” So I had to walk two stops back through the ridiculously cold and wet weather.

The funny thing is, when I got back on the bus however many hours later to get back to the airport, it was the same driver. He ended up letting me ride back for free. (Which was nice; it would have been nicer if I had gotten on the bus going the right way, but I’ll take what I can get!) Anyway, I finally made it back to the airport, and into London this morning. Then tried ridiculously hard NOT to get lost on the London “tubes” and trains, and was actually quite successful. So, bravo for that!

Aaand, I’m in Greenwich for tonight!