I've been in London for the last few days since getting back from Istanbul. I've stayed a couple of nights in a St.Christopher hostel. Not bad, a little dirty but not as bad as the hostel in Paris. Then I stayed a couple of nights at the YHA at Canada Waters. It was very pleasant. I had my own room for some reason. Besides hanging out at Picadilly, Bond Street, and those common tourist trappy things, I've been trying to find some interesting and trivial things to search out. Such as the Tyburn Tree. Well, it's no longer a tree but a cement sewer cover on the island at the intersections of Edgware Road and Bayswater. (You'll have to cross to the middle of Edware Road to find the spot.) For 30 years from 1196ish Tyburn Tree was where every Monday condemned men and women were hanged. This is a picture of Dwarf next to the cement memorial.
Another interesting thing that I went and checked out was the St. Mary's Hospital. This is the hospital where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Well, it was a pretty nice brick building but other than that there wasn't much else to see. The hospital is near an area were a lot of arabic people are found and it was interesting to see all the men out on the street smoking the shisha again. I tried to buy one but they didn't seem very interested in selling me one.
I also got to go to the most famous Cathedral in the world: Westminster Abbey. This church is amazing! Tons of famous people are buried here, including: a million English Kings and Queens, Charles Dickens, Sir Isaac Newton, and Lawrence Olivier. Visitors aren't allowed to take pictures but because the fee was 10 Pounds I thought it was only right that I should be able to take one or two pics. Here's a picture of the burial spot of Sir Charles Darwin. Finally, I got to see Odette one last time. I stayed with her for my last night in London.
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