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Hi from London!
Jun. 30th, 2005 11:43 pmSo, wow! I'm sitting in a computer lab at King's College this evening, so I'm taking advantage to post an entry. :)
I like the idea of staying in vacated dorms - though this is more like an apartment/suite. There's a bathroom in each room, but I've NEVER seen one as tiny as this (and I've been in airplanes recently, and on a submarine many years ago). They basically fit sink, toilet and shower in the space of an airplane bathroom. There's no tub or divider, just a curtain. That will be interesting tomorrow morning!
But hey, it's a private bathroom for a cheap price! :) And not too far from an underground station and near London Bridge.
Today was the British Library and British Museum. It was very, very cool! Though I was soooo tired and my feet started hurting at the end. I ended up falling asleep for a few seconds sitting on a bench in the British Museum. If it wasn't so blasted crowded (I could barely see the Rosetta Stone!), I would have just laid down on one of them.
I really enjoyed the British Library. They have such a wide range of things in their highlights room - Jane Austen's parody of British History books that she wrote at age 15!, Original Lyrics from the Beatles, heck, original scores from Handel, Mozart, Beethoven. And Beethoven's tuning fork, that got passed down through generations of great musicians - including Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams!! They also have original recordings of people reading their own works, Laurence Olivier doing the "Alas, Poor Yorick" scene from Hamlet... oh, and yes, their amazing collection of Illuminated Bibles. :) I was expecting that, though, but not all the rest.
Oh, and I went to Paddington Station and got a picture of the statue there - with my very own little Paddington Bear posing with it. :)
Tomorrow? Hopefully, St. Paul's, Westminster, taking a picture of Big Bend and the Tower of London for my nephew, and may be Covent Garden or Portobello Row - I'd like to do some (window) shopping. :)
Then it's off to Netherlands for conferencing. I hope they have a computer available there!
I like the idea of staying in vacated dorms - though this is more like an apartment/suite. There's a bathroom in each room, but I've NEVER seen one as tiny as this (and I've been in airplanes recently, and on a submarine many years ago). They basically fit sink, toilet and shower in the space of an airplane bathroom. There's no tub or divider, just a curtain. That will be interesting tomorrow morning!
But hey, it's a private bathroom for a cheap price! :) And not too far from an underground station and near London Bridge.
Today was the British Library and British Museum. It was very, very cool! Though I was soooo tired and my feet started hurting at the end. I ended up falling asleep for a few seconds sitting on a bench in the British Museum. If it wasn't so blasted crowded (I could barely see the Rosetta Stone!), I would have just laid down on one of them.
I really enjoyed the British Library. They have such a wide range of things in their highlights room - Jane Austen's parody of British History books that she wrote at age 15!, Original Lyrics from the Beatles, heck, original scores from Handel, Mozart, Beethoven. And Beethoven's tuning fork, that got passed down through generations of great musicians - including Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams!! They also have original recordings of people reading their own works, Laurence Olivier doing the "Alas, Poor Yorick" scene from Hamlet... oh, and yes, their amazing collection of Illuminated Bibles. :) I was expecting that, though, but not all the rest.
Oh, and I went to Paddington Station and got a picture of the statue there - with my very own little Paddington Bear posing with it. :)
Tomorrow? Hopefully, St. Paul's, Westminster, taking a picture of Big Bend and the Tower of London for my nephew, and may be Covent Garden or Portobello Row - I'd like to do some (window) shopping. :)
Then it's off to Netherlands for conferencing. I hope they have a computer available there!
