Hola from Dublin!

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Many many more tourist sights seen, streets wandered, accents listened to. Fed ducks in Regence Park, minded the Gap regularly, took the train and ferry up to Ireland, now in Dublin, land of Guinness and Joyce. Seriously, every other building has at least one of those words on it.

Watched The Aristocrats in a cineplex in London. If you like astounding crudity, it's the movie for you! (No violence, no nudity, unspeakable obscenity, in a documentary of a dirty joke filmed by Penn Jillette.)

Have to make my way back down through England again, and Bill keeps asking me where I want to go and see. I am spending one day looking at a castle near Holyhead, and then I have several days to get from there to London. I prefer walking city streets and seeing neat people in their natural habitats to tourist traps. Suggestions?

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[hesperide.livejournal.com]

When I visited London a few years ago, I found I enjoyed walking through Covent Garden one weekend... the street performers were a blast. They've turned it into something mall-ish somewhere post WWII, which was wierd. There were lots of people, but I didn't have to interact with them, and it was sort of like being an invisible observer, so I played that mental game with myself. I had fun mentally changing the clothing to something more medieval, and then more Victorian, and played hide-n-seek through the crowds with an imaginary playmate until B & Isilani found the store they were looking for. I think the original Lush store is there too, if you need an herbal niceness break.

The other *places* I enjoyed a lot in London were Westminister Abbey, The Tower of London, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin in the Fields, and that wierd little Chinese bun shop off Leicester Square...

The non-places were more interesting in lots of ways, if you like just wandering neighbourhoods, randomly poking your head into shops that look interesting. I had an fabulous asparagus omelette in a Greek restaurant in Hackney while killing time waiting for a panto play at the theater there...

See you soon. I hope you make lots of wonderful memories!