Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Jan. 25th and 26th

On Tuesday we don't have any class so that is usually the day we go and explore the city of London.  So, yesterday we went off to Oxford Street which is a huge tourist attraction of shopping.  We took the Piccadilly Line to Green Park and then transferred and headed north to Bond Street.  As soon as we got off we saw tens of thousands of people walking up and down the street.  This street has the really nice stores that are expensive but the reason there were so many people is that there are a lot of reasonable stores.  It is hard to find any sort of clothes that are reasonable here and even when we did...well...lets just say the XL size here is a LOT different  than the XL in the US.  I didn't buy anything for obvious reasons.
Last night we went out for a girls birthday to a new pub around here.  It was pretty fun and I tried a new beer.  It was called Kozel, imported from Czech Republic.  Very good.
Today we had class, but it was a tour of the east side of London over by Embankment and Covent Gardens.  It was a tour based on Charles Dickens novels that relate to London, but it was still fun to see.  Tonight we have our theater class, but don't get to see a play, which is very rare.  This weekend is going to be very busy.  On Friday we head to Cambridge and than on Saturday we go to Wales.  Good updates will be coming.

Cheers

Jimmy

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