What I’ve been upto recently

You know my week 5 in London is nearly over, incredible how fast time has gone by. It felt like yesterday when I got out of airport and straight onto the tube. And now I navigate the tube like it’s my second home. Buses are cheaper though and they have aircon! Such luxuries!

So what have I been upto lately? This is what:

I swang by Selfridges and checked out this thing they call consumerism. Good god things aren’t cheap there and people are buying them up! What recession?

I decided I like this particular bit in the Green Park tube station. It’s very matrix like.

I went to the British Museum, twice! And I still didn’t manage to see everything. It’s huge, it’s crammed full of things from all over the world. How many of them got to Britain is very questionable, but hmm, I get to see them for free, I suppose I should be grateful.

The great hall is very impressive, especially at first sight. Did you know it’s the largest covered outdoor space in the world… or something like that.

It was amazing to see ancient Egyptian with my own eyes, it’s something I’ve seen on TV so so many times, it’s used over and over in popular culture, yet this was the first time I saw the real things.

Not far from the British Museum in Soho is now my favourite place in London. It’s call Princi, it’s an Italian bakery/cafe that serves the most amazing cakes. I’ve been going back a few too many times, somehow I always make up excuses, “Oh I’m peckish, oh Soho is only 5 hours walk from here!” “If I walk all the way then I can eat a whole cake and have coffee too!” So the female logic goes.

This strawberry mille fuille was amazing! The cream fresh and light, the sponge fluffy, the filo layers crispy, the strawberries incredibly soft, as if they’ve been cooked. I can also state that the passionfruit cheesecake is delicious as if the cannonici.

I saw some random dude in a big plastic ball.

I finally went to the photographers gallery, it ain’t too bad.

I went to St Paul’s Cathedral, it’s big, it’s impressive from an architectual point of view, but those aren’t going to convert me from the cult of flickr.

You aren’t supposed to take photos inside, but what the heck, rules are meant to be broken. If I’ve paid bloody £11 to get in, I want to take photos! The whipsering gallery near the dome there is quite impressive. I sat there for a little while and the voices of other really gets carried across, but the sound gets distorted, so it does sound a bit ghostly and scary.

View from nearly the top of St Paul’s. That’s the Thames! And that’s Millenium Bridge across it, behind the bridge is Tate with the tall chimney.

I’ve walked across the once wobbly Millenium Bridge, actually when you stand very still on it you feel the strong vibrations, it was a windy day though.

That’s all for today. I’m going to stay with Sissi for a little while since Yasinta is coming back very soon. Then I’m off to the Turkey with Jady from the 9th June til about the 19th. I don’t think I’ll be updating the blog again til I’m back from Turkey. So please be patient with me. Because when I get back, not only will I have photos from Turkey, I’ll have access to Sissi’s scanner, which means I can finally show you all my photos from Portugal. Exciting!