Thursday, November 4, 2010

Today we left the hostel at 9am and walked to Soho where we got a coffee at Flat White and then caught the tube over to Knightsbridge which is the Harrod's stop. Harrod's has to be one of the most amazing places in the world, but it's got this strangely tacky aspect to it with all the Egyptian themed architecture. I have to let it get away with that though as there are some serious pieces of expensive merchandise there. For example, a pair of actual mammoth tusks. Or perhaps a giant crystal about a metre tall for your living room? It's like a big museum, only the exhibits are for sale.

From there we walked to the V&A museum and investigated some seriously amazing artefacts. We must have spent hours there - I'm not sure as my phone finally died on me - and we still didn't see everything it has to offer. Just down the road is the Natural History Museum, which has some amazing dinosaur fossils and pretty much every animal that exists stuffed and on display. We didn't get to see much more than that as there was some emergency evacuation and we all got kicked out. By now we were too tired anyway so we headed over to Pret A Manger which is like Starbucks for sandwiches and you can't go three steps without seeing one. It was unsurprisingly average. We caught the tube back home and now we're just chilling and trying to decide what to do next.

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