This past week was an eventful one!
On Wednesday we visited the Olympics site, and let me say I do not think it will be ready in time. However, I do appreciate that the Olympics Team is making this an eco-friendly, green event. To get to the stadiums, visitors will need to use the tube, the athletes will walk to their games, and some of the buildings will use rain water for bathrooms and such.
On Saturday I took two free walking tours around the city. The first was about the history of the buildings and area by the Thames river. It was interesting and I'm glad I went, though the weather was freezing! The tour was only supposed to be two hours, but two and a half hours into the tour, we decided to head back.
The guide told us the story of the day the London Eye went up (or rather, the day it didn't go up). The eye was on its side, and as the cranes were pulling it upright, they got stuck. Being sponsored by British Airways, the day, when the cranes worked and they were pulling the eye up, Virgin Airways flew a plane in the background with the banner "British Airways Can't Get it Up."
Then I went on a ghost tour later that night. The group was too big; I wish they had more tour guides, but hey, it was free, so I can't complain too much. And though I am one who is scared easily, this tour was scardy-cat friendly, and I thought the tour guide/actor was great. He sand for us and got into character for each of the tales.
One story that stood out was about a nurse at St. Bartholomew Hospital. This nurse can be seen in the medicine closet pointing to various medicines, unsure what to take. When she was alive, the nurse accidentally gave the wrong medicine to a patient that killed him. Upset, she hanged herself in the medicine room.
And on that happy note....
-B
A Smurf along the Thames. There were other characters there to take pictures with.
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral at night
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