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Jun. 17th, 2009 07:12 amYesterday, per ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blythely's recommendation, I hit up the Museum of London (I also thought it might be a good idea because my favourite Wellington museum is the Museum of Wellington City and Sea and I thought it might be vaguely similar - it's not really, but still good.) Everyone, BTW, should have a friend like blythely willing to recommend bags of places from within a similar culture as your own (like, e.g., where to find quality coffee, which is indeed in short supply.)
Unfortunately everything after 1666 (Fire of London for those of you who passed out in History, ought to be ashamed, etc) was closed for renovations or something, sadface! ( but here's what I did see )
So after that I basically went for a wander, sort of vaguely trying to find some food or something else fun to do. I bumped into a couple of really cute gardens and several placards for something called the London Wall Walk, which apparently runs from the Museum of London to the Tower. I thought about doing it but unfortunately I could only find a few of the placards so I had to abandon that plan - a real shame, since the weather was absolutely beautiful. However. Then I just sort of wandered for a bit, which would have annoyed my mother (she gave me strict instructions to always look like I knew where I was going so's not to be vulnerable to thieves, which is probably great advice, but meh.) I ran into a chocolate shop and spent ten pounds, which is kind of naughty but realistically it's on a par with NZ prices and I'm really *bad* at walking away from chocolate. I have now eaten one of the bars and, hmm, not sure what to think really. I'll have to try some of the others and give a verdict.
Then I came home, went to bed pretty early and woke up at 6 - I seem to be able to catch right on 8 hours sleep a night, which is a fairly good number but is leaving me pretty exhausted at the end of the day.
Today... well, today I'm wide awake and more or less up at 8 am, so I think today is probably a good day to do the BM. I also might try to organise to go out tonight - I think I'm going to try to get to both Wicked and Avenue Q while I'm here, which requires finding places to get cheap tickets.
blythely's recommendation, I hit up the Museum of London (I also thought it might be a good idea because my favourite Wellington museum is the Museum of Wellington City and Sea and I thought it might be vaguely similar - it's not really, but still good.) Everyone, BTW, should have a friend like blythely willing to recommend bags of places from within a similar culture as your own (like, e.g., where to find quality coffee, which is indeed in short supply.)Unfortunately everything after 1666 (Fire of London for those of you who passed out in History, ought to be ashamed, etc) was closed for renovations or something, sadface! ( but here's what I did see )
So after that I basically went for a wander, sort of vaguely trying to find some food or something else fun to do. I bumped into a couple of really cute gardens and several placards for something called the London Wall Walk, which apparently runs from the Museum of London to the Tower. I thought about doing it but unfortunately I could only find a few of the placards so I had to abandon that plan - a real shame, since the weather was absolutely beautiful. However. Then I just sort of wandered for a bit, which would have annoyed my mother (she gave me strict instructions to always look like I knew where I was going so's not to be vulnerable to thieves, which is probably great advice, but meh.) I ran into a chocolate shop and spent ten pounds, which is kind of naughty but realistically it's on a par with NZ prices and I'm really *bad* at walking away from chocolate. I have now eaten one of the bars and, hmm, not sure what to think really. I'll have to try some of the others and give a verdict.
Then I came home, went to bed pretty early and woke up at 6 - I seem to be able to catch right on 8 hours sleep a night, which is a fairly good number but is leaving me pretty exhausted at the end of the day.
Today... well, today I'm wide awake and more or less up at 8 am, so I think today is probably a good day to do the BM. I also might try to organise to go out tonight - I think I'm going to try to get to both Wicked and Avenue Q while I'm here, which requires finding places to get cheap tickets.
