Sean, I am jealous of the POTENTIAL of museums you can go to. Good luck making a decision. So much to do, so little time to do it. That said, there's nothing wrong with just taking a breath of air and chilling. I know my trip to DC got a bit over saturated with museums and history. It pained me to give up. Had to.
Tomorrow, I get one day of walking around London, maybe seeing a sight or two,
Am I the only one who thought "Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament." What? It's two sights!
:: ducks and covers ::
I have almost sprinted through it once, because through a comedy of errors, we only had about an hour at the V&A the time we went. If we go to the UK this fall, I am spending A DAY there.
You MUST go back sometime. I was amazed at some of the underthings. There was one that was a heavy wooden board kept up by suspenders that gave the skirt that went on top of it its wide appearance.
The Tate Modern was pretty awesome too. When I was there, they had an exhibit that consisted of slides from the various levels down to the ground.
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Now I desperately want to go back to London. It's been...four years?
What part of London are you in, Sean? Besides bed now, of course.
One day is not nearly enough to see London. The BM is HUGELY overwhelming -- go with the intention of seeing maybe 2 exhibits. There's no way in hell you can do it all in a day.
Get a curry take out, find a garden, spend some time in Camden, and mos def have a pint. Do pubs still close at 11?
Leicester Bloody Square! And one of my favorite museums, the London museum, about the history of London. SOOOO interesting.
London is very NYC-like, but once you get in a non-touristy place, they mellow out faster than NYC. But they are different like WHOA than Italians.
The Tate was my favorite art museum.
I also saw some trippy theatre productions; I was in a Shakespeare class and a Woolf class. Saw an S&M Japanese version of the Tempest -- don't ask -- and a kinda funny-cause-they-were-so-serious performance art piece of the sonnets.
Also saw Branaugh do Hamlet in Stratford. SWOOOOOON.
I spent two days in London and I'm afraid I didn't see the inside of a single museum. We did a lot of walking, taking buses, did a river tour and spent a lot of time in bars and restaurants. And, to hark back to the "finding familiar food", I'm afraid we went looking for a MickeyDs. But, when you've been living in rural Spain and the closest US chain (KFC) is 45 miles and (BK) 90 miles and (McDs) 200 miles, you kind of make a beeline for something familiar. After that, we were all about the basement level restaurant with the cowbell playing dude that swung from the rafters.
I didn't have a lot of disposable income, so I bought a lot of potatoes, wonderful French sour cream and ate Indian take out at off hours when they had deals.
And samosas for 50p at this sandwich and donut shop in Earl's Court.
