The gang has spent the last days walking all around London, and I mean all around! I seriously think we average 12 miles a day walking around the city - no lie! On Saturday, we walked around East London and saw the Tower Bridge (featured oh so lovely below), St. Paul's Cathedral and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
We also took a tour of the less traveled East End of London. West London is, for most people, the only place to go - it has all the palaces, sites, sounds and entertainment most people want to see when they come here.
The East End is the blue collar, working man's part of town but has sooo much history! We walked down Brick Lane (the London center for both fashion and Indian curry), visited Spitalfield's Market (maybe the best, most eclectic market London offers) although we didn't see much because it was closed - bad timing on my part!) and jaunted through a lesser known part of town. But it did have a classic English telephone booth!
Today, surprise, surprise, we did more walking! I kid you not, my feet have never been so tired or sore in my life! We have been booking it around this city, but it has all been worth it, especially to visit Covent Garden where we went today.
Covent Garden is probably one of my most favoritest places in all of London. It has everything a girl could ask for - a market (Jubilee Market), shopping (the possibilities are endless!), yummy food (cookies, cakes, pastries, bakeries), street performers, theatre (any Broadway show you could want), people all around and of course, a carousel!
We walked from Covent Garden to Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, which are the heart of London. Then we headed down to Trafalgar Square and decided to go to the National Gallery, which is the best art museum in London, featuring artists from the 1200's to 1900's including Botticelli, Cezanne, Renoir, Monet, da Vinci - you name it! Unfortunately we did not get very far as we found an extremely comfy sofa and sat for over an hour resting out feet before deciding it was time to get food!
Meg, Meg, Will and I decided it was only right we indulge in a hearty English meal before leaving for Germany so we found a pub and ordered the heartiest fare we could find. Yours truly ordered the Ploughman's Lunch - a large wooden board stocked with an apple, salad, butter, crusty baguette, apple chutney, ham and English White Cheddar! It was, needless to say, delicious!
Now we are resting up before going to go out enjoy London for a last night before our German adventure begins!
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