First days in London

EDITORIAL NOTE: 1£ = $2, approximately.

So, our hotel makes us pay £3.50 per hour to use the internet. Ridiculous! I haven’t asked them if there’s a discount rate for multiple hours or if we can get access for the entire time at a reduced rate. It would be much cheaper to use an internet cafe (£1.60/hour), but I am more familiar with my computer, have bookmarks and passwords here, and have a lot of software that their computers won’t have. It’s annoying.

Well, let’s get to the fun stuff. Here are the places we’ve been so far:

Day 1
- The airport. Large. Boring.
- The London Underground. “Mind the gap!”
- The hotel. All of the women who work at the front desk are really hot. I have the rest of the week to try to talk to them, too! Hah, as if anything could possibly come of that…
- The Oxford Street shopping area. It’s much like New York.
- Piccadilly Circus. It’s much like Times Square. By this point, I was getting a bit annoyed — I didn’t come here to see a copy of New York City with older buildings.

(Amazingly, we slept for 14 hours last night. We missed the free breakfast in the hotel, but at least we got over the jet lag already.)

Day 2
- Tower of London. Awesome! Lots to see.
- The Tower Bridge. Also pretty cool. Nice view.
- The London Dungeon. Basically they sensationalize various events in London history that involved death.
- The Handel House. It’s a house.
- A bar. Lame. We saw the end of a none-too-exciting soccer game and drank some Bailey’s. That stuff tastes pretty good but it’s too expensive and too sweet (and too weak) to get drunk off of it.
- Internet cafe. I didn’t post anything because I hadn’t written anything yet.

Unfortunately, I haven’t written anything for either of my existing stories, because I don’t remember exactly where I left off and I haven’t been keeping copies of my work on my own computer. Now that I realized the folly of this, I’ve copied everything down, so between now and my next posting I’ll surely write some stuff. For those of you hoping to see the next installment of either of my stories, my apologies…

London is pretty cool, but I’m not really a big city type of person. I’d like to get out of town and see some other stuff, like a castle (less tourist-ified than the Tower of London, hopefully) or some actual natural scenery.