Logging Miles

It's about 4pm on our second day in London and we've logged many miles on our shoes. We left the hostel yesterday at about 10:30am and visited Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Oxford Street, The National Gallery, and Covent Garden. We had a lot of Hyde Park to ourselves and it was a nice calm before the storm of Oxford Street. Walking along that street and through the subways really took all of our energy out of us. Manuevering around everybody and making sure we didn't get run over by looking at the wrong side of the street when crossing made us very tired. We ended up at the National Gallery where we went our separate ways. I'm not too much of a museum person-- stopping at paintings only when they really intrigue me so I didn't want to slow Beth down. I took my time in one of the wings and found a bench that had a beautiful view of Orange Street. I must have people watched for the last 10 minutes I was there. It was a nice time to catch up on my thoughts and to have some time to myself. Covent Garden was our last place to visit. It had an open market and lots of cute shops with eateries and performance artists. We stayed for the main attraction which was guy in a red, latex thong juggling knives on a 20ft unicycle and then juggling knives and a running chainsaw... Quite the diversion. Today entailed much more walking too... Abbey Road, where the Beatles recorded their first album, the Sherlock Holmes museum, Regent's Park, where they have an outdoor Shakesperean theatre and again through the crowds on Oxford St. to change more money. We will be in London one more night-- Friday as we are cutting Bath and Oxford out of our trip. England is a lot more expensive than we budgeted for so we're staying in London one extra night as we can get by pretty frugally if need be in this city.