Lots of public toilets around England are pay toilets, ranging from 10p to a princely 50p. Today I paid a total of 70p to use the garderobe, and upon leaving one of them I found this cute sign:
Today was our last full day in London. A bit of sightseeing, a bit of shopping, a bit of eating. JBF went on another train safari today, so KLS and I headed out early to see Buckingham Palace.
As our travel books predicted… we were underwhelmed 🙂
Very close is a park (St James I believe it is called). This was an unexpected treat, since the lake in the park is full of a variety of different water bird species, most of which are unafraid of humans.
The park was also home to some of these little fellows:
Next was Westminster Abbey, which managed to impress us even though we’ve become somewhat jaded by ancient, immaculately detailed buildings. We didn’t pay the (exorbitant) entry fee though, and only admired from outside.
This morning I bought a lemonade beverage from Waitrose. Upon drinking, I had to glance at the bottle to make sure I hadn’t actually bought lemon juice for cooking or something, since it was so terribly bitter. KLS insisted on photographing me drinking it.
It is moments such as these I wonder why I let her take these ridiculous photos of me…
The apple pies are like the Australian/Japanese ones, incidentally 🙂
Here’s another pair of shots, this time taken in Trafalgar Square:
Here’s a story that I don’t remember telling. We went to a Games Workshop in Edinburgh, and I overheard a customer say (dead serious) to an employee “You’re pretty much the only Dark Emperor I know.”
Today we went to a Games Workshop in London. There were an abundance of amazingly well-painted miniatures on display, and I wasn’t surprised when I heard employees boasting to a customer how they were the premier store in Britain (this was on Oxford Street by the way). An example figure:
Toward the end of the day we visited (as I suppose we had to) Harrods, the world famous department store. It was maniacally busy and terribly ostentatious. For instance, in the fancy spirits shop in the basement they had a single bottle of cognac for £26,000.
They were also selling this, a full sized bath carved from a single piece of quartz crystal. It is the only one of it’s kind on Earth and also, so the sales board said, will be the person who buys it.
Anyway as I said this was our last full day, and it is unlikely I will do another blog entry this vacation. Hopefully you enjoyed reading it (even if some of the entries were a bit late!) as much as I enjoyed writing it 🙂
