Tuesday, September 26, 2006
my weekend before uni starts...and i still feel holidays aren't over yet!!
so i've been doing the usual dumb tourist act again. this time we went to the london dungeons.wakaka and i've finally got new pics!
so trevor, ben, DL, kelvin and i decided to go check out the famous london dungeon. okay actually it isn't that famous, cos stupid me thought it was the same as the tower of london.ish ish where all the beheading of royalty was. i honestly thought the london dungeon was under the tower of london.the fact that it isn't. the london dungeon is near the london bridge, but the tower of london is somewhere else. everything's phreaking confusing...
one of the statues outside
ben, mua and dl outside the london dungeon..
sighs, i was looking forward to a leisurely walk around the london dungeon checking out all the torture instruments...there's something perversely fascinating about things like that..
but alas...i got crap like this...
this was the closest i could get to torture instruments...
the london dungeon's some disney house of horrors.i felt like i was some amusement park ride....
amusement park example 1 : stupid reflective mirrors and fake tunnel walls..
amusement park example 2 : trevor and i on some boat ride...which i don't even remember what the significance of this boat ride was to london history..
so all in all, we went to the great london fire, the great plague, jack the ripper, sweeney todd(london's most prolific serial killer. 150 victims!)and 18th century court. it was all very weird....i 'm still confused myself..
after that we went for a walk along the thames. when i say walk, i do not mean some voluntary stroll around the river, it was more like taking the scenic route..and getting our 'bearings'.ppfffttt...
this time the route really was scenic...
somehow ended up in soho and leicester square at night. wakaka since ben was kinda familiar in london, wanted to show me the 'real' soho. apparently soho was this notorious red light district before the big clean up to become the fashionable clubing area it is today. but there is one street which survived the clean up. greater windmill street. topless bars, porn shops....haha but it was a new experience..
and there's this new thing around london which i find totally incomprehensible...
trishaws on london!!
mmmm.....didn't know london had bmx bike trishaws back in the 18th century...
you see so many of these around china town...guys in jeans biking around???!!!
so started my classes today. i'm taking european law, public law, contract law and mmmmm.....criminal law...bleh...i wish i was still on holidays...
so i've been doing the usual dumb tourist act again. this time we went to the london dungeons.wakaka and i've finally got new pics!
so trevor, ben, DL, kelvin and i decided to go check out the famous london dungeon. okay actually it isn't that famous, cos stupid me thought it was the same as the tower of london.ish ish where all the beheading of royalty was. i honestly thought the london dungeon was under the tower of london.the fact that it isn't. the london dungeon is near the london bridge, but the tower of london is somewhere else. everything's phreaking confusing...
one of the statues outside
ben, mua and dl outside the london dungeon..
sighs, i was looking forward to a leisurely walk around the london dungeon checking out all the torture instruments...there's something perversely fascinating about things like that..
but alas...i got crap like this...
this was the closest i could get to torture instruments...
the london dungeon's some disney house of horrors.i felt like i was some amusement park ride....
amusement park example 1 : stupid reflective mirrors and fake tunnel walls..
amusement park example 2 : trevor and i on some boat ride...which i don't even remember what the significance of this boat ride was to london history..
so all in all, we went to the great london fire, the great plague, jack the ripper, sweeney todd(london's most prolific serial killer. 150 victims!)and 18th century court. it was all very weird....i 'm still confused myself..
after that we went for a walk along the thames. when i say walk, i do not mean some voluntary stroll around the river, it was more like taking the scenic route..and getting our 'bearings'.ppfffttt...
this time the route really was scenic...
somehow ended up in soho and leicester square at night. wakaka since ben was kinda familiar in london, wanted to show me the 'real' soho. apparently soho was this notorious red light district before the big clean up to become the fashionable clubing area it is today. but there is one street which survived the clean up. greater windmill street. topless bars, porn shops....haha but it was a new experience..
and there's this new thing around london which i find totally incomprehensible...
trishaws on london!!
mmmm.....didn't know london had bmx bike trishaws back in the 18th century...
you see so many of these around china town...guys in jeans biking around???!!!
so started my classes today. i'm taking european law, public law, contract law and mmmmm.....criminal law...bleh...i wish i was still on holidays...
# posted by Addie @ 6:22 AM 
