Tourist!

I've finally began to do more exciting stuff in London besides discovering which are the leading leading supermarkets in the country. Hah!

Friday

After a terribly boring lecture for Muscle and Exercise (henceforth MnE), me and pw sidled down to Borough Market, which is just a stone's throw from Guy's campus (and hence our place) to have lunch. On other days, it is just a fresh food market selling vegetable and fruits and poultry and the like. But on Fridays and Saturdays, there will be cooked food and loads of people go there for exotic food. We saw venison burgers, ostrich burgers, organic hot chocolate (the cow is organically bred issit?!) and all kinds of cheeses. Peiwen took a photo of the pheasants on sale. They still have their feathers on them! There was also a stall selling blocks of fudge! They look like something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I bet are sumptilicious! We had german sausage in a bun and then bought yoghurt coated walnuts and chocolate coated coffee beans. The coffee beans are YUM! Haha.

Then we went to explore London Bridge (the bridge, not the tube station) and the surrounding areas. We found this monument thingy:

You can pay 2 pounds to climb up inside it. I think it is to commemorate the Great London Fire.

We then went over to Moorgate to meet fq and ning sang for dinner before going to Dijun's violin recital. She taking her postgrad diploma at the Guildhall School of Music. I met mosquito girl and mali (and her bf) at the concert. Everyone present were suitably impressed by Dijun's performance. We went to her school bar to talk after that. Then we adjourned to her flat upstairs (yes the bar was in the same building as the hostel). We left in a while, after having decided to meet again to eat the famous four seasons roast duck in while.

Saturday

Me and pw were brought around London to see the sights.

This was at the British Museum. It is really really big and have wonderful fascinating exhibits from all over the world through the ages. I can foresee myself spending time there. We were just gasping and gasping.



We also went to the Tate Modern, which is a contemporary art museum. This one was a bit deep for us and we spent half the time laughing silently at the stuff. Oops. Haha. But there are several nice pieces that I liked. There was Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol.

We went along the River Thames (at last!) and it was lovely. When the weather is warmer and brighter, it will definitely be a great pleasure to just sit down and watch people go by. The whole stretch was just bustling with activity: book sales, baskers, people on skateboards...


This is piccadily circus:


and at the London Eye:

We'll go ride it soon!

We also wandered to Trafalgar Square and there was a huge Russian Winter Festival there. Loads of people milling around, drinking Russian beer, watching the concert and just having a good time. It was quite an experience. But that also meant it was rather difficult to take pictures. Haha, we shall go back again. If you watched 'Child of Our Time' on Central, you'd know that there's a sculpture of the disabled artist who was featured at the square.

Lalala. All in all, so fun! Well, today will be rest day.