London Calling

Monday, June 05, 2006

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?


Hey all!

Well, its about 1 am here, and I've just come home from our last-hurrah dinner and drinks with the intern kids who will be here for another five weeks. It was awesome! We all went to this great steakhouse in Crouch End called Monkey Nuts...yeah, weird I know, but it was really cool. They had a cover band playing that was out of this world -- everything a cover band should be. It was a bunch of old guys playing everything from Elvis to Johnny Cash to Nirvana to Led Zepplin...rock!! My roomies and the rest of my mates are still out at the moment, I ducked out early to get some sleep before our flight tomorrow and finish some last minute packing.

I spent my last day in England out in Greenwich. My friend Greg and I had been interested in going since we got here, but hadn't had the chance until today. We took something called the Docklands Light Railway out to Greenwich and walked through the adorable little town up to the Royal Observatory...home of the Prime meridian, the zero degree longitude line, and the clock that keeps the official Greenwich Mean Time. After a couple of the usual touristy photos there, we checked out the other parts of the historic observatory and the gift shop. Then we headed down into town to scrounge up something to eat. Following that, we made our way past the Cutty Sark, an old clipper ship in drydock that was pretty cool. As we were leaving, we spotted a really neat way to travel back -- a ferry. So, we paid a little extra and got an awesome view of London via a ferry down the Thames. Talk about cool -- we arrived back in Westminster right under Tower Bridge!

Well, I just wanted to post a quick update, but I'm headed to bed before our loooong flight tomorrow. Keep checkin back for a week or so as I post more photos and such from the trip. I'll leave a link back to my personal blog once I close out this one.

Thank you...and GOODNIGHT LONDON!!

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