Chinatown!
This is how many stairs I have to take to
get to my room. Because there isn't an elevator.
Above
is Primrose Hill. Gorgeous!Waiting for the train!
Our view of London from Primrose Hill.
Taking a taxi!
Taking a taxi!
Okay, I think I may be more tired than I was last night. I'm certainly not thinking as clearly. It could be because I went to bed at ten and woke up at two. I fell back asleep, but I woke up again at six thirty. Anyway, the day started bright with the Hufflepuffs at breakfast--I actually ate an egg in which the yoke was runny. Crazy!
I can't even remember what happened today, really, so I'll just make a list of the things I saw:
- The Parliament building, complete with the famous clock tower
- The London Eye
- Trafalgar Square
- The National Gallery
- Over 1000 original paintings, including works by Da Vinci and Van Gogh
- The original, hand-written Canterbury Tales
- The original Jane Eyre
- Jane Austen's writing desk
- Beethoven's tuning fork
- Handel's Messiah (the original, of course)
- Many red phone booths and double decker buses
- Two of the original copies of the Magna Carta
- Chinatown
- Much of the Underground
- An original piece by Mozart
- A 3rd century copy of the Gospel of John
- The complete works of Alexandre Dumas (48 volumes), and an old one at that
- Darwin's copy of The Origin of Species
- Original copies of Renaissance authors like Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson
- Original, hand-written lyrics of the Beatles' songs. Yeah, John Lennon's handwriting.
- Many, many tourists
- How easily I have become one of the people who get annoyed by the Americans
- The many places to eat that I couldn't eat in because we didn't have time
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