Had a lazy morning on tuesday ended up not going anywhere until about 11:30.
We hopped on the tube, yet again (this is constantly a reacurring theme in london), and went to see St. Paul's Cathedral. Sadly the only place you can take picturesin the building is the very top and anywhere that no one else can see you. after paying the entrance fee, £8.50 for students, it took about a half hour to get all the way to the top of the building to see the nice view. Three Hundred steps up and down is alot of work even for someone as young and spry as me, and the staircases weren't exactly hadicap accessible, geeze the American Disabilities Act spoils me too much. After exhausting myself , not really, we walked around the block to the Old Bailey, you know that building that got blown up at the begining of "V for Vendetta", well it's the "old" courthouse that's been in use since [put some rather oldish date here, they'll never check] , and it's quite nice but rather boring 'cause I didn't see any of those funny looking, wig wearing lawyers. Oh well, down to the tube on the Northern Line to ...
Camden Town, if the Haight-Ashbury had a bender in Tijuana it would comeout looking something like this. It's a market that spralls from the street across a canal and down into some reused horse stables probably once owned by the queen, like everything else in london. Lot's of food stalls and stands with the same posters, belt buckels, hats, and handbags. You have to really go digging to find the cool stuff, like rasta stall run by a jamacian with an accent that had sounded like it had been dragged through scotland for a bit before arriving in camdentown. Or the stall run by what looked like two ex-russian mobsters, that would make you try on something by force if you seemed to have even the most fleeting intrest in it. The place is definately a step above the Haight because it doesn't seem to attract any hippie-dippy, heroin shooting, dread wearing drifters, which after spending a few years in San Francisco you grow pretty tired of everytime you want to get something that you just can't find in the mission district.
and Spamalot, well all I can say is that this is an awsome, amazing musical for anyone who enjoys monty python and/or musical theatre Definitely the best spoof of the genre that I've seen yet, listening to the soundtrack just doesn't do it justice, this is a show you really have to see live to appreciate.
Next Post: The Flight to Pisa (sort of), and an italian christmas
Update: I'm sorry, i've gotten a bit behind and my photos aren't uploading from the computer at my sister's in laws house, so for now i'll only have text updates until I can find a internet cafe
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