London day five

Hey there, here are a few other things I've been doing since the last post. On Wednesday I went up north to check out that part of the city. I found a nice park with people walking their dogs and playing around. There were these enormous Victorian style buildings lining the park. I'm not sure if they're for working or living or schools but they looked expensive. Then I headed over to Abbey Road to see the music studio and the famous sidewalk the Beatles used for their album cover. It was a popular place for picture taking which was tricky cause its a pretty busy road. You have to be fast. It would've been cool to see the inside but its a working studio so there's no tours. Nonetheless it was cool to see the place where not just the Beatles recorded but numerous other famous musicians and a whole lot of film scores. It would take too long to name them all but if you're interested Wikipedia has a listing.

Then I took a red bus down to kings cross and st pancras station to see the British library, but first I was getting hungry and luckily there was a little farmers market outside the station. I had a scotch egg which is kind if a medium cooked egg wrapped in sausage and breading and some smoked chorizo. It was pretty good, might be tough to find back home though. At least the egg. Moving on, the point of going to the library was mostly to see the rare treasures room. And rare it was, they had hand written music from Mozart, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, The Beatles and others. They also had original copies of Shakespeare plays, letters from authors and heads of state. Early religious and foundation for government scrolls, like thousand year old kind of early. So it was pretty neat. Yesterday I walked around the government part of town where big Ben, parliament and Westminster abbey are located. The buildings are a little intimidating as far as the scale goes and I found it a little over the top. It reminded me that I prefer living in a country where we don't have royal overlords flaunting their wealth, although that could be debated in regards to the income disparity in our country. Hard to explain, but the wealth here is not hidden one bit. Anyway, enough politics, I also went up to Trafalgar square that kind of is a hangout for locals and tourists. I'll have to go back because they have a statue of George Washington placed on a column made out of stone and soil imported from Virginia to respect his decision to never step foot on British soil. I'll have to get a picture of that. I also went down to the imperial war museum which I found very interesting. They have all sorts of military equipment, a WW1 replica trench you can walk through, all kinds of spy equipment like James Bond kind of things. Its a normal looking pipe, oh wait, it's a gun. They have a section for each major war the Brits were involved in which is most of them. On the way back from that I passed by a few private schools for boys. The craziest part was they were built like prisons. High walls, razor wire, very bizarre. I met a teacher back at the hostel that said boys try to make a run for it all the time so that explains the security. Today is kind of low key, my dogs are barking pretty good from all the walking and I have laundry to do. Talk to ya later!