It started off yesterday with a lunch at Costa's (an Italian Coffee Shop) in the Holborn neighborhood. Lunch was a simple sandwich, but I mention the lunch because while sitting outside enjoying the lovely weather I managed to catch this amusing scene on my camera:
At one point in time there were two of these guys out there but I didn't get a chance to snap a picture before the other one had gone back inside...
Later in the day we decided to go out to a club...and had to take a train to get there. At one of the stops on the way to the club a group of about 16 school-girls who couldn't have been more than 17 or so got on the train all dolled up to go out in the city. The volume in the carriage immediately went up as they were very excited about their night out. I felt like there could be a secret filming for the upcoming Bratz movie going on and we just didn't know it. It was funny and cute.
The club was a ton of fun too. So many folks there from all over the world all just dancing and acting silly. It was a fun and amusing time.
This morning I got together with my friend Sowmya to do some sight seeing. We started our day with lunch in the Tower Bridge area of town. We had a very interesting Italian dish which consisted of rice, chicken and cheese baked in a ball shape that was covered in seasoned bread crumbs. It was tasty and unlike any other Italian dishes that I have had before. After that we grabbed a boat down to Greenwich. That was a cool trip too. The ride down was about 45 minutes long and included a very brief audio tour of the Thames River, I have already taken this cruise before but I didn't go down the river this far so I have some new pictures to show of areas that I hadn't seen last time I went.
Once we arrived in Greenwich we went to the National Maritime Museum. It was cool. London has a long history of Maritime travel and such so there was a lot to see. There were several smaller boats inside the museum and countless models of boats that were far too big to be included in the exhibits. I took a ton of pictures while I was in the museum. After the museum we went around the corner to see the Royal Observatory. This observatory, which sits atop a hill, is the location of 0 Longitude and the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). It was a beautiful day and the area is surrounded by a big park and many Londoners were spending it playing in the sunshine. It was really nice.
After the Museum and the short break in the park we checked out a couple of markets and then went to our final destination of the day, Croydon. We had dinner in Croydon at a South Indian restaurant Chinnai Garden that was incredible. I had an entirely vegetarian dinner and have to say that if all veg. food tasted as good as this did I wouldn't miss meat in the least bit. I don't even know the names of any of the food I ate other that Domas (which is probably spelled wrong) but it was all very good. I had my friend order the food and just asked for anything but fish and nothing too terribly hot and what I got was an assortment of really delicious foods and a drink that was some sort of yogurt drink that was very tasty too. We ended up having dinner with her cousin's cousin and his friend, I unfortunately cannot remember there names but they are both young surgeons and were terrifically fun to talk with. I think we will probably end up getting together again before I leave London.
Anyways, that's all I have for now. Hope you enjoy the pictures. I tried to label all the different places I went.
~Jenn
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That cat looks so freaked out. I hope it's ok.
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