"I Would Walk 500 Miles..."

Does anyone else love that song by The Proclaimers? You know you love it hehe. here's a link to a late-80s guilty pleasure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZojpl-p_5A

Yeah so I got up yesterday and decided to take a walk alone. Enjoy the scene and people-watching. Also there German soccer fans in town for a game against Chelsea: by mid-afternoon they were all drunk.

So yes the walk, an epic journey. Started at High Holborn; walked down Kingsway and Aldwych to The Strand; walked down to Trafalgar Square, saw Admiralty Gate, and looked down The Mall to Buckingham palace; continued down Whitehall passing a lot of memorials, government buildings, and Downing Street; finished walking Whitehall and ended at Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Victoria Tower) quickly saw the monument to Boadicea, a British Celt Queen who led an uprising against the Roman Occupation; Walked back up to The Mall and walked through St James's Park; stopped at Buckingham Palace just as they were changing the guard and continued up through Green Park; walked through Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square; passed through Soho, went up to Goodge Street, passed by the British Museum, and finished at my dorm a little over 5 hours later.

So yeah quite the walk. It was a lot of fun, just walking around myself taking in the surroundings and watching everything. Jess is really right, you get a much better feel for the city when you walk it and I have walked many of the important places. Who knows: I might know London better than DC when I come back to the states next year!

Oh, in case anyone wanted to see what I have seen, here are some Facebook albums. Knock yourself out.

http://georgetown.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2084891&l=21395&id=1409498
http://georgetown.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2087376&l=768b8&id=1409498
http://georgetown.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2087385&l=b6089&id=1409498