Used the Internets today. Checked email (though didn't reply), posted to blog and booked coach to Cardiff for the rest of the family (I'm not going). After that, we walked to the London Eye, which Jess, Sarah and I caught.It was great to see London laid out before me, something that you wouldn't get in a city full of view blocking sky scrapers. Got to see Big Ben, MI-5, the Palace and a whole slew of other buildings in some sort of greater context.
So far, I think London is great, full of people, always moving, nice urban density, however seen from above, it's not a very pretty city. It's mostly grey buildings pressed up against each other.
London is the converse of Sydney:
Sydney's monuments (think Opera House, Harbour Bridge) look beautiful and glamourous from afar but when actually view them up close they seem a little grimy and grey. London from afar seems ugly and squat, but up close the buildings are intricate, still large enough to loom and very beautiful.
After the eye, we moved on to the recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. I decided not to take the tour since it's only a remake, and with London being the bloody expensive city that it is, there's no point paying for things in which you're not overly interested. After that, we were going to visit the Tate Modern, but after visiting the actual site of the globe, we returned home, and I went straight to sleep.
