Sunday, April 6, 2008

London Skies or Traffic, Sweet Home

Back online after a short hiatus.  Not sure how often I'll get online during this trip.  I could fork over for an internet cafe, which I'm positive will happen, but not quite yet.  Arrived in Bath last night after an adventurous bus trip from London to Bath which was 3 hours delayed.  Apparently some major train was delayed, so loads of people were all trying to fly off to places like Manchester and Oxford in coaches (long distance buses).  The result was bascially what the holidays look like at Disneyland.  Over a 100 people were in line for 3 ticket agents.  Shouts rang out from the crowd when an pleasant English voice announced that certain coaches were full:  "Noht good enuf!", "Get the bloody manager"!  Apparently the bloody manager was at window number 3.  (I just noticed that there is no "number" or "pound" symbol on a UK computer pad.  And I'm on a MacBook!)  But here I am in Bath.

I should finish London first.  I spend three full days in London, mostly seeing tourist stuff, I have to admit.  But I have 5 days in July to sip tea with the Queen.  Speaking of the Queen:

The Changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace:

What London blog would be complete without this gem:  (Do I always make that face?)


This is Picadilly Circus.  All of the Beatles films premiered at the cinema in this Circle:


Here's me at some building doing my favorite thing - leaning into pictures:


This was just my first day here.  For all of your who may have never been here, I've been making a little video blog too:



It's 2am and I have to hit the sack.  Gonna bateh in 2,000 year old Roman Spa tomorrow here in Bath.  I'm a little behind on blogs, so hopefully next time I can finish England and blog about Bath.  I got snowed on today!


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

bwaaahaahaHAHAhAhahaHghahgahhg

oh. my. gawd. that was hilARIOUS Brian. thank you for a painful laugh! I needed that! Stoked that you're having a good time, and the video stuff is rad. Good to actually hear from you. Maybe I should post videos of my vacation here in Orange County. I don't need a guide book either...