I love the Tate Modern.

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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Tate Modern is fabulous.

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.

See, now y'all make me want to go back to London, except for the whole knowing it's heinously expensive part. Cause...damn, London is expensive.

But I want to travel abroad with a friend. Not by myself. All my work travel by myself I'm fine with, and a day here or there, or maybe going for a lazy beach trip, fine. But..foreign country? Checking the sights? Enjoying stuff? I want companionship. (Heck, I"d love someone romantic, but a friend would be fine too)

I really do want to cross the Pond some day. And I haven't seen much of the East Coast yet.