It was a pretty day here this Saturday. There were times when soaking rain descended over the city but it was nothing that having tea and a ham/cheese sandwich at the Green Garden Cafe on Neal Street couldn’t improve. The owner there was quite nice and gave me a towel to dry my very wet self off with. It was comforting to just sit and watch people dash back and forth, trying to dodge the downpour.
After the rain let up, I wandered around Soho and Covent Gardens again; this time I took a little video of the crazy Covent Gardens Market courtyard (only on one side) and of the GIGANTIC Apple Store that has FOUR levels to it (sorry that it might look a bit rushed. I was trying to film before the very scary looking security guards bounced me. These guys looked quite big and quite serious.)
Here they are:
Covent Gardens Market mini-vid
London Apple Store tour – Part 1
London Apple Store tour – Part 2
London Apple Store tour – Part 3
Since today is Halloween, it seems that all of London is turning out to celebrate this evening. This means that the trains, buses, and streets are literally jam-packed with people (locals, tourists, etc). The young ones have started dressing up early and a good-sized crowd of them showed up in front of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum to pose for pictures. I’d have taken some pictures myself but the crowds were so bad that just walking a few steps was nearly impossible. Sometimes I had to step out into the street to get past throngs of people (nearly was run over by a double decker or a taxi at some point). I drifted to the London Trocadero, a cheap-looking gallery of cinemas, tourist-targeting shops and tattoo parlors after absorbing the festive energy and heavenly smells in Chinatown. That was an interesting, very loud experience LOL!
Walking the neighborhoods is quite fun, although evil cramps made me cut the wandering short today. I’m now holed up, listening to the wild Halloween revelers running up the street outside my hotel and watching Strictly Come Dancing for the first time (and I am writing this entry too 😀 ).
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