I spent a couple of hours walking the walls of Londinium today. Or rather, where the walls would be if they were still standing. Londinium was the name of the original London town, built by the Romans during their occupation of Britain. You can still see remnants of the wall in some places (like I said--those Romans really built things to last!). Here's part of the wall. The lower part is Roman, the upper part was built during the medieval era. But just look how huge it is!
One of the cool things about London is how there's architecture from all sorts of eras, standing right there next to each other. You'll be walking down the street by modern bank buildings (which in London are still cooler than banks in most other places) and suddenly you'll pass a shop that's probably from the 18th century. And then suddenly out of nowhere pops the dome and spire of St. Peters, or a piece of the old Roman wall. And it's not all walled off and patrolled either. It's just a part of life. Here's a picture of the gate to St. Olave's church, that we found on our walk. The people then seemed to be very aware of their mortality.
This is a bowling green, with bowlers. Apparently it's a popular pastime in England.
So we passed this sign post, and I really wished I had time to go to the station and see if I could find the cloakroom... but we had to keep going. Those of you familiar with So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish will remember the cloakroom.
Some really cool artwork we found. That's modeled on the Christ's Church, just down the street.
Okay, this was actually the most awesome thing I've ever seen. Giant. Chessboard. Available for playing in the Exchange Court.
I went to my first play tonight. We saw 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre in Picadilly Circus. It was absolutely hilarious. Four people play the entire cast. It claims to be 139 roles, but I'm skeptical. It is a lot though, I'd say maybe 40 parts. I was laughing the entire time, it was so good. And all of the accents were real :)
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