Looking Over London...

We did go on the London Eye (and pay £8 for the privilege of owning a mass produced "personal memory" photo), then went to explore the London Aquarium (where they tried the same thing.)

Once you reach the vantagepoint at the top, the view from the Eye is quite spectacular: a grubby sprawl of buildings, hiding the treasures of ancient monuments and the diamond flashes of the tourist cameras, jewel moments among the kimberlite if you will... But I'm still disappointed that it isn't like it is on TV; the News and Documentaries show everything as so polished, so shiny, so close together - look here at St Pauls, here at Ben, here at yaddayaddayou get it. But it's not, it's scattered amongst grotty grey hulks of concrete and glass, even the greatest towers are subdued and overshadowed by scaffold and crane.

The tube experience is quite, quite unique. I had it in mind of something akin to your standard public transport train, your SouthWest Trains journey. However, even at it's busiest point, the rush-hour to Weymouth on a Friday evening, the SouthWest would still be beaten into submission in a head-to-head battle with the Underground. It's like a cattlevan, pink fleshy livestock crammed in willynilly, hurryhurry to get there fast. I'll give it that, it's a whole lot cheaper and a damn sight more efficient than the bus systems, and a lot more reliable than the black cabs (I won't even consider mentioning the charges for those!) but you really do have to take a deep breath.


Even as laid back as I am, I found myself swept up in the urgent nature of the city when trying to traverse the tube and on a couple of occasions, Himself and I almost ended up seperated by trains. It got to the point where we had to agree beforehand where we were going, and for the first one to arrive to wait for the second! His view on the whole thing: "Slow doooown!" At least you don't need to say that with the Eye.

Quote of the day: "Oh, this 3is3 si3lly!" Laptop seizures produce 3s.