Monday, October 09, 2006

Monday Trip Blogging

Day 3 - British Library, Camden Lock, and general walking around

Phone Box near British Library. It was full of Porn flyers.
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Canal, locks, and street on Sunday in Camden. Great way to spend a day and money. You may recognize it from a recent American Express commercial starring Kate Winslet.
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Piccadilly Circus and Eros Fountain. As you can see, it's no longer a circus.
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Take away Fish & Chips.
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Battersea Power station, seen through a dirty window on the train to Gatwick. Classic/Pro rock fans will recognize this building from the cover art of Pink Floyd's Animals album. I geeked out when I saw it coming in on the train from Paris, and made sure I got a picture when I saw it again.
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So that's it! It was a great, but tiring trip. While in London we saw "Chicago" at a West End theater. It was really good. We saw it mere days before Ashlee Simpson took over the role of Roxie Hart at that theater, so we dodged a bullet there, for sure.

Another thing that I haven't yet mentioned was that Lovely Wife and I had the pleasure of meeting not one, not two, but three bloggers on the trip! We had a long layover in an airport near where The Jinx of Spades lives, so we got together with him and his wife (herself a former blogger) for dinner. We didn't have time or interesting environs to do much but talk, but seeing as we are both married couples with young children about the same ages, we had plenty to talk about. It was a very good way to spend the afternoon before our flight, and I (belatedly) thank Jinx and his wife for making the trip out to meet us.

On our last day in London we had the pleasure of a guide in Graculus, that mischievous rascal of a British blogger. He lives several hours away from the big city, and was recuperating from nasty looking hand surgery, but he made the trip up anyway and introduced us to Camden and his favorite little tea/French pastry shop. He haggled (unsuccessfully) for us at souvenir stands and told us of his rural life. Thank you, too, Grac, for coming up to London and hanging out with us. That brings the number of bloggers I've met to eight, and I have yet to have anything but a wonderful experience.

Things will be pretty slow around here now that I've got the pictures up, but stay tuned for a surprise this week, maybe even tomorrow!