I hate London.
1. It is so noisy, busy, colourful and vibrant. Sickeningly so.
2. It is disgusting how cheap books are here. It is wrong when you can buy new paperbacks for £3. And the bookshops? There are far too many of them. The ones in Oxford make me even more cross. (Thank you, KR, for showing them to us!)
3. My feet hurt because there are so many sights to see.
But seriously, folks, it is truly amazing being here and seeing all these places I have only ever read about or seen on the telly, before now. Windsor Castle is bigger than it looked on Spooks. Oxford and Cambridge – phwoooaaar! I have now driven on a Roman road. Big Ben is spectacular. The Thames doesn’t smell. The museums – I think my favourite so far is the Natural History Museum (dinosaurs and ichthyosaur fossils – what’s not to like?).
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My sister bought me back a trilobite. So cool. 🙂
You could always mail the books to yourself…:-)
War is not one of my general interests – but the Imperial War Museum is really worth visiting. If you have the time.
The reverse is true too – I was quite shocked at how expensive books were in Australia when I visited in March!!
I too love the Natural History Musuem, but I think that my favourite London museum (so far) is the British Museum – it’s huge AND it’s free!!
are the cheap books the real reason you packed light?? 🙂
Didn’t make the War Museum after all, but we visited the Ashmolean (Oxford), the National Gallery, the National History Museum, the British Library (Kings Library and the Turning The Pages exhibit impressive), the Tate Modern, British Museum…
MC, oops you guessed the reason 😉