The more things change, the more they stay the same
Well after a long 10 hour flight out from SFO. I'm finally in England. I thought I would be more excited to be here, but I feel just a bit off. I don't feel like I'm on holiday but I also don't feel like I'm back home. Lots of things have changed back here, but it's still all the same. I suppose you could say that for a town as old as London. At a purely superficial level things will vary but the underlying core of the city remains the same. My mum and I have decided that we're going to do things we didn't do while we were in London just to make it different.
Things here are also bloody expensive too! Last night my mum and I had dinner at pub. We had fish & chips plus she got a soda and I got a beer, which all amounted to about $40. I forgot how expensive it is here. Consequently we're seeking out all the hole in the wall eateries. I think I'm going to get sick of eating out pretty soon.
After we got in Monday and dropped our bags off at our "very" questionable hotel, my mum and I went around the West End a bit and then visited some old friends of my mum. We saw a bit of Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court road, which are shopping meccas. We also made a trip to Picadilly Circus and the adjacent Chinatown. All of which looked the same to me, but smaller. Everything seems much closer and smaller just because I was a kid back then so proportionally it all makes sense.
Tuesday we went to the British Museum and hit many of the same places as we did on Monday but spent a bit more time in Oxford Circus, specifically Selfridges(Macy's Equivalent), and in Picadilly Circus at Lillywhites(former high end sporting good store). I picked up a Liverpool baseball cap from Lillywhites. Tuesday was also my first visit to running club I found on the internet, the Serpentine Running Club. They're a very well organized running group with a lot of members. I ended up doing a 400-800-1200-1600-1200-800-400 pyramid. I had to skip out on part of the second 1200 due to gastrointestinal issues, but made it through the rest. The workout was great and so were all the people. There seem to be some very dedicated runners with this club. Hopefully I'll run again with them tonight, if my legs aren't too tired from walking. What was weird though was I met a woman who just moved from San Francisco to London for work. Small world.
Today we went to Waterloo to book a short weekend excursion to Paris. We'll be leaving Saturday and returning Monday. I'm quite excited about that little trip since I've never been. After Waterloo we went to Trafalgar Square, home of Nelson's Column, and the National Portrait Gallery. We then walked down to Downing Street home of the Prime Minister and then made our way down to Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. We saw the big Millennium wheel, and I was going to get on but the weather is so dreary that I wouldn't have been able to take any good pictures. Speaking of pictures, I have a load of them but no place I can upload them. I'll have to that when I get back. Well I'm off to go catch up with my mum. We might see a show sometime this week or next. I'm hoping for Spamalot.
Things here are also bloody expensive too! Last night my mum and I had dinner at pub. We had fish & chips plus she got a soda and I got a beer, which all amounted to about $40. I forgot how expensive it is here. Consequently we're seeking out all the hole in the wall eateries. I think I'm going to get sick of eating out pretty soon.
After we got in Monday and dropped our bags off at our "very" questionable hotel, my mum and I went around the West End a bit and then visited some old friends of my mum. We saw a bit of Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court road, which are shopping meccas. We also made a trip to Picadilly Circus and the adjacent Chinatown. All of which looked the same to me, but smaller. Everything seems much closer and smaller just because I was a kid back then so proportionally it all makes sense.
Tuesday we went to the British Museum and hit many of the same places as we did on Monday but spent a bit more time in Oxford Circus, specifically Selfridges(Macy's Equivalent), and in Picadilly Circus at Lillywhites(former high end sporting good store). I picked up a Liverpool baseball cap from Lillywhites. Tuesday was also my first visit to running club I found on the internet, the Serpentine Running Club. They're a very well organized running group with a lot of members. I ended up doing a 400-800-1200-1600-1200-800-400 pyramid. I had to skip out on part of the second 1200 due to gastrointestinal issues, but made it through the rest. The workout was great and so were all the people. There seem to be some very dedicated runners with this club. Hopefully I'll run again with them tonight, if my legs aren't too tired from walking. What was weird though was I met a woman who just moved from San Francisco to London for work. Small world.
Today we went to Waterloo to book a short weekend excursion to Paris. We'll be leaving Saturday and returning Monday. I'm quite excited about that little trip since I've never been. After Waterloo we went to Trafalgar Square, home of Nelson's Column, and the National Portrait Gallery. We then walked down to Downing Street home of the Prime Minister and then made our way down to Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. We saw the big Millennium wheel, and I was going to get on but the weather is so dreary that I wouldn't have been able to take any good pictures. Speaking of pictures, I have a load of them but no place I can upload them. I'll have to that when I get back. Well I'm off to go catch up with my mum. We might see a show sometime this week or next. I'm hoping for Spamalot.
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