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After a week of stressful work and jet
lag in Farnborough, UK, Sejin and I made our way to
London on
Saturday.
There were all kinds of
recommendations from people in the office as to where we should
spend our weekend, most of which did not include London. I got
the impression most "English" didn't like
London
. Didn't really
matter to us, it still seemed like
the logical place to
go.
Because decent
public transit actually exists in the U.K., we went
online and started checking schedules.
With just a short walk from our
hotel, we were at the station buying our travelcards. These
travelcards guaranteed us to and from London and all the
underground and public bus transportation we could
stand.
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One transfer and about an hours worth of
travel we arrived in London via Waterloo station. It was
pretty overwhelming at first. You walk down the platforms
towards this giant hallway that is the terminal. From there
all of London is yours for the taking, but which way do
you
go?
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After a little fumbling, discrete map
purchasing and reading, we made our way to the
tube.
It literally is a tube. Again
intimidating at first, but we soon got the hang of
it
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Ah ha!
London!
Luckily Sejin didn't really know much about
London, so it was easy to convince him to go where Londoners
go and not just the tourist traps.
This was Portobello Market on what I would call the north
west side of London. Basically it was a street that stretched
on and on with all kinds of vendors.
Quickly we learned we weren't in the U.K.
anymore as nobody walked on the traditional left side of the
sidewalk. There were basically people of all types
everywhere.
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Some cool buildings along Portobello
market. You'd hardly believe you were in dreary England with
shots like
these.
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After Portebello, we jumped back on the
tube and headed to the north east corner of the city for
Camden Market. Camden reminded me a lot of South St. in
Philly. It was just a lot of shops and a lot of people hanging
out.
Though I have to warn you,
the shops in this area are mostly alternative. If you're
looking for Ralph Lauren or something don't bother going to
Camden. If you're looking for Dr. Martins and something in
latex, this is the place!
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There happened to be this cool lock in
Camden with this cool skinny boat going through it while we
were
there.
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The captain made his first mate jump off
and manage the gates. Not sure what her responsibilities were
on the boat, as she's only wearing a bra under that vest that
I think belongs to the
captain
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So the
front gates were opened and the back gates closed (reverse
order of course) and the boat
dropped.
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Level and ready to
roll.
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