Not too much traveling to report here. We have moved into a new house in London. We are living in the Leyton neighbourhood of east London in a house with some South Africans. The photo of the brown house with the Jeep Cherokee (aka Liberty in the USA) in front of it.
We have been traveling on the underground tube most of the time and visiting the tourist sites close to city centre. My new favourite public transit line is the Docklands Light Rail. It is an automated train line that runs across and near the Thames River and right through the centre of Canary Wharf (like the Wall St. area of south Manhattan). I like how there is no conductor/driver needed and there is lots to see out the windows while travelling above ground. I could probably ride it a few more times just for fun before I got bored!
I won't bother typing the sites we have visited but if you look at a list of the 25 sites tourists should see in London we have probably been there. Many of the places, however, charge admission fees so on our budget trip it means gleaning knowledge from eavesdropping and sign reading outside.
We were struck by the gorgeous housing in Notting Hill and Chelsea. Every third house seemed like a rich footballer's home or embassy. I, of course, was ogling all of the awesome Bentleys, Mercedes-Benz and Porsches around.
The children's interactive exhibits at the Science Museum kept us entertained for hours...good show!
Nothing to exciting for now, but I am off to bed.
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