London I

When we planned this trip we left alot of it pretty flexible, so if we were in some place for not too long we figured out a couple of different places we possibly wanted to hit and then planned one thing to definetly do. We were only in London for two nights so we figured we could see a museum or two, the Tate Modern and the Victoria and Albert Museum, see a show, music that is, Caribou at Bardens Boudoir to be exact, and leave the rest of the time to walking around the London city streets. Well, we were pretty successful in our efforts to stick to the plan, but after getting to our hotel, dropping our bags and set off to see some sites, we were informed that the Tube workers were on strike and the subway was not in use. Great! If you have ever been to London you know the ease the Tube brings to your travel experience. They have tons of lines that go everywhere and it's quick. Most travel books will also list what Tube stop an attraction is near so alot of the figuring is done for you. Well, that strike really set in our Amazing Race experience. We had to quickly figure out London's urban bus service which I found kind of difficult. It took up a lot of time, but it made for really good exercise. For our first outting we wanted to go to the Tate Modern, after spending 20min trying to figure out a map we just ended up asking a bus driver which route to take to go to The TATE MODERN and we were off. Well, that driver sent us to the Tate Britian. Hungry and losing time on our first day, we asked someone at the Museum how to get to the TATE MODERN. They gave us a route told us it would be about a 20min walk and we set off again. Well, I guess if you have bionic legs it takes you only twenty minutes because we were walking fast, and it ended up taking us like an hour to get there, I did stop for a couple of shots, but they were shots like, I saw a boot on the ground, looked up at the London Eye and saw some skaters. No worries though, we burned lots of calories, saw some funny things and found out where to get turquoise skinny jeans.



This was taken our second day in London. The strike hassels lasted until about 7:00pm our second day.


Londoners waiting for the bus. This is right before we took the wrong bus route to the Tate Modern.


Now I only saw one of these boots on the ground. This is a pretty nice boot. I bet there is someone out there really mad trying to figure out how they lost this boot.


Looking up at the London Eye.


On the waterfront near the Tate is this little cut away area that skaters and graf artist do there thing.


Finally at the Tate.


St. Paul's Cathedral in background.


St. Paul's Cathedral reflected in a double decker bus. We didn't make St. Paul's in enough time to go in because they were finishing up a church service.