Lust For Life

I'm a few days behind in diarising this trip, so before I forget:

Day 2 - Short Version:
Lords, the Home of Cricket.
Abbey Road, where too many pedestrians nearly get run over trying to recreate crossing the road.
Little Venice and a pretty canal boat ride to Camden Markets.
Docklands and Canary Wharf - no Doctor or Captain Jack to be seen
Jack the Ripper walk
Curry dinner in Brick Lane

Day 2 - Long Version:
We started out with a qucik train and bus trip past Lords. The home Of Cricket. Oh yes. Appearance wise, it looks like a crickt ground. Sorry, but as I'm discovering, everything in England (it seems) has hundreds of years of history woen into its very existance, so a cricket group just wasn't that thrilling. Not thrilling but nice.

Slightly more exciting was walking past the Abbey Road studios. You know, the ones. After seeing many, many tourists try to recreate the Beatles album cover walk over the pedestrian crossing and thinking they looked a) Pretty dumb; and b) Like they were lucky not to have been hit by that car, we restricted ourselves to taking a few photos of the building. From the outside, it looks like a building. Yes. A building. Interesting thingt o note - even though everywhere else we've been there are about a billion street signs, we only saw one with "Abbey Road" on them - apparently they keep getting stolen so the local government has given up.

We kept walking and wandering and catching random buses until we ended up in a very pretty area called Little Venice with, as you would expect, canals and canal boats. After waiting in line for a while we hopped on a canal boat that sailed (is sailed correct? Punted?) down the Regent canal, past London Zoo to Camden Markets. Being a Sunday and school holidays, the markets were in full swing and it was hard to move anywhere in the press of people.

Lunch was Wild-Boar-ona-a-spit sandwich - YUM! VUH and I amused ourselves by calling each other Asterix and Obelix for a while and enjoyed our drool-worthy food.

More random wandering, this time back up the high street and eventually onto a train to the Docklands area and Canary Wharf. It was very... clean, and a little sterile. VUH tells me that this area of Londond is really new and almost exclusively a business precinct so it was fairly quiet. I just kept hoping to see a few Time Agents battling the cybermen in an alley nearby, but no such luck :(

After more wandering, we went back to our room and I put my feet up for a bit.

Then we toddled off to the Tower and went on a Jack the Ripper talk/walk around the west end. The only bummer was that we were in such a big group that it was hard to get any sort of details from the guide's patter, but c'est la vie.

Dinner was in the highly anticipated Brick Lane for curry. We were enticed by a spruker into a restaurant and the food was lovely. Less so was the service but hey, we were getting a discount and a free drink, so there was much I was willing to overlook :)

After all of that walking, I slept very, very well.