Days 61 & 62 - A night in London

The past 2 days were more like one big long day, so I'm condensing them into one post.

I went to London on Saturday to hang out with some friends. After meeting in east London, we went to the Good Mixer, Bullet Bar, and Dublin Castle, all in Camden. Very interesting places, and with people I really enjoyed being around. It felt very British. I had a great time. Then I tried to get back home.

It was after midnight, so the Underground was closed. I tried to take a bus toward Paddington station (on the northwest side of London where the trains to Reading leave from) but ended up going east instead. I finally made it back to an area south of Camden and kept walking west until I could find a bus that went to Paddington. None. So I ended up walking all the way to Paddington (about 3 miles I think) and arrived at 3:30. The last train to Reading left at 1:00. The next one was 6:43. So I spent the rest of the night at the train station waiting for the 6:43 train.

I tried to make the most of it. It was kinda neat to walk around a deserted London. And the 6/8 hour time difference came in handy for calling people in the U.S.

A few other random things... I saw a pretty serious fight in east London, fed crisps to pigeons (have you ever seen them try to eat those? it's quite entertaining!), saw the Greenwich meridian laser, and learned that a "daddy long legs" is a very large flying mosquito-like thing, not a long-legged spider as in America.

posted by Matt @ 3:37 PM