Before I tell you about what I did today, I must wish everybody a Happy New Year!! I can't believe it's 2005 already! For New Years, Scott and I had a reasonably quiet one. We caught the tube into central London, to Green Park which is close to Piccadilly Circus. So we wandered down Piccadilly towards Trafalgar Square, where they had big screens set up for people to watch the fireworks on. An odd idea to me really. Trafalgar Square is a big hangout for people on New Years, but we wanted to avoid that. We walked down Whitehall (are you all seeing a Monopoly connection here??) down to the Thames. We shuffled our way through the crowd and found ourselves on Westminster Bridge, with a perfect view of the London Eye. Excellent. We were about 70 metres away from Big Ben. The fireworks were amazing. Absolutely brilliant. There were so many people out there though. It took us an hour and a half to walk two kilometres because of all the people!! We walked down to a tube station away from the centre of town to avoid the crush! A great New Years though. I hope everybody had a great one...
Yesterday was a lazy day, as all New Years Days should be. We hired a couple of DVDs and watched them. We are the only ones in our house at the moment which is nice, but quiet too. I miss people. It is my new years resolution to meet more people. It has been difficult so far as we were travelling then it was Xmas etc, but I am determined to meet people! Any ideas?
Today was fun. We headed off to the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. It was so much fun. They had many old trams and buses that we could climb in, touch screens for information, and a giant ticket that you could punch at 14 different points in the museum. I had so much fun, and I learnt a lot about London's transport, which was great. I was interested in the tube particularly, as I was told that it started quite early. In the second half of the 19th century actually, which impressed me.
From there we had a look at the Covent Gardens market. Not a great deal there, but good to look at. Had lunch there too. From there we headed down to near Trafalgar Square to the Sherlock Holmes pub. That reminds me, someone commented on Scott's jounral and said they were Sherlock Holmes, I am very curious to see who they were!! The pub was nice, and we had a drink there. From there we walked to near Embankment tube station to see Cleopatra's Needle. This is an obelisk from Egypt from 1500BC given to London in the 19th century.
We jumped on the tube at Embankment and went to Angel. The reason for this? We had learnt at the Museum that Angel station has the longest escalator in the London Underground system. So, of course we had to check it out!! It was fun, and I got to take some photos too. What a dork. :-)
Anyway, I think's that's all for now. Take care people. :-)
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