For reference throughout this post: £1 ≈ $2

I don’t know how to describe this city…but I shall try. It’s huge, expensive, old, and the people talk funny. The underground costs about £6 a day to ride everywhere, which seems expensive ya? Not really. If you drive into town, you have to pay the congestion charge which is £8, don’t forgot about the horrendous traffic. So many people get their scooters, vespas, bikes, etc and weave through traffic in whats called “filtering”. Food is outrageously expensive, although, beer is actually still quite reasonable at about £2-£2.50 for a pint.

Today we went down to see a few more of the big tourist attractions. The British Library, which was quite interesting, as it houses many many old books, manuscripts, and even some symphonies. This is also the home of a few versions of the Magna Carta. Which interesting enough is about to be sold at auction. See this link for info, note the seller, LOL. Then we traveled towards the River Thames for views of a bunch of the bridges crossing over it. The London Bridge, which we found is not what most non-british people imagine it is, its actually quite a bland bridge. What most people think of is actually the Tower Bridge. Anyways, we checked out a few of the things around the river, got a view of the London Tower, the n had lunch in a old London pub just north of the London Bridge. After lunch we were off to the Tate Modern which was turned into a museum from an old power station in 2000.

We have one more day here in London, then it’s off to Belgium, for really good beer and really old architecture.

Here are some pics to keep your from falling asleep reading this. The first one is actually on the plane from Dublin to London, if you look close you can see a pot of gold at the bottom of that rainbow in the middle. The picture with the lines is inside the Tate Modern. I was trying to sneak it in, but I still got busted and told “no photo”. No big deal, I had already taken the shot!