Since yesterday, I have been out of the US for the longest continuous stretch. Things are going well, I don't think I've lost too much of my sanity yet.
Also sorry to all you Hoyas, but I still have yet to start doing school work. Sorry guys! Hope my parents don't read this and wonder where their money is going to...
Good news for when the D6 crew heads out in the Spring to see Reed in Paris. The St Pancras International Rail Station opens in November, shaving 20 minutes off the trip to Paris and only two Tube stops from High Holborn. The more I look at London, the more I see that New York City is getting behind the Eight Ball here. NYC has 6 different financial regulatory bodies; London only 1. NYC missed out on getting the Olympics in 2012 (to London!) and I think has given up for a while since the West Side railyard Stadium has been put on the back burner; London is now revved up and just got the OK for a--get this--£15 billion transit train system upgrade called Crossrail. The best NYC can muster up is finishing the 2nd Ave subway that has been under development since the 1920s and is necessary so the Lex Ave Line isn't running dangerously above safety capacity limits. Great.
Ah so me and London. Went to Soho, it was eerie how much it reminded me of the NYC Soho and East Village. Pretty hopping, but alas it has been Yuppied with its prices. Seems like wherever I go around LSE I cannot escape the price gouging racket better known as the Theatre District and the West End. I need to figure out fun things to do that don't involve needlessly wasting money. I guess hop on the tube or a bus (even cheaper and you get to see the city!) and go to Hyde Park's Speaker's Corner and watch the crazies talk. Or maybe go to Battersea Power Station and feel like I am Pink Floyd.
Suggestions welcome for the economical tour of London, while remaining fun
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