Tuesday, October 18, 2005

London, England - DAY THREE














Today we finished seeing everything we wanted to see. Originally we were going to take a day trip out to Stonehenge but we decided against it because it was going to cost €60 each for us to go for the day. We thought that we'd just use it as an excuse to come back to England another time. No worries.
We started the day by going to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. I wasn't as excited once we got there as it's been re-built, etc... and it costs €9 to get in. Gimme a break! From there we went to Tate Museum (The REALLY great thing about London is that the museums are free! It's pretty incredible!). The museum was great though we aren't at all into modern art but we did have a good time nonetheless. We spent a couple of hours there having a close look.
From there we walked to St. Paul's Cathedral... as I mentioned before we were unable to get in previously. This time it was fine but there was a mass happening and we didn't want to pay the fee (Something crazy steep) to go in when we couldn't REALLY look around. We walked in, took a peek and walked out (Like most of the other people that went in at the same time as us..).
From there we headed to Museum of Natural History where we saw some CLASS dinosaur robot thingys... very lifelike. We also saw the Darwin wing as well as the mammals. Pretty nice to wander and learn. Down the street was Royal Albert Hall (See photo of Luke in front of it).
From there we walked through Hyde park... very beautiful. They have 20 types of birds protected there... TONS! We took a little stroll and made our way to Speakers Corner and then walked to Ringo Starr's ex-apartment, which he let to John and Yoko, and which they were busted for drugs in. Interesting.
From there we went back to Baker Street where there is a plaque in honour of John Lennon. Interesting.
Afterwards we went out, grabbed a pint and a bite to eat and then hit the sack early for our check out time of 10:00am. In the morning it was OFF TO DUBLIN!

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