London: Day 3
On Thursday, we slept/rested just past the breakfast at the hotel (9:30.. we hadn't gone to bed until about 3 the night before) so we skipped breakfast and rushed to find a tour bus since our 24 hour ticket was expiring soon. Once we got on, we knew we couldn't get off and catch other busses b/c our ticket would have expired. So we took it easy and stayed on the bus for about 3 hours as it toured all through London. We think we walked faster the day before than the bus moved, but the commentary and sights were enjoyable. We got off and stopped at a Lebanese retaurant on the way back to the hotel (we were expecting mostly english food, but there are tons of lebanese, and various other internation restaurants in london!) I had a "goat cheese salad" and dad had lamb curry. It was good other than all of the smoke from the huge pipe-like things that they serve there. I'm not sure what they are called but it is obviously a custom to smoke it with a meal as many people were always outside the restaurant doing so each time we walked by. We went back and rested, and then took a regular city bus (instead of walking, thank goodness!) to picadilly circus and decided to see.. another show! We didn't know what else to do. We were too late so the cheap ticket selling place was out of tickets for the shows we were considering.. so we decided on Les Mis and walked to the theater to see if we could get tickets, and we did! We shared duck and soup very quickly at a Chinese restaurant since Chinatown was right next to the theater. Then Les Mis! It was a slightly obstructed view, but it really was not that bad (DSL was blocked, that was all), on the first row of the first balcony level. It was a GREAT production - I've only seen Les Mis once before (4 years ago in Philly) and I loved it then and have been wanting to see it again since. It is officially one of my favorite musicals now. Jean val jean (sp?) was fantastic!..as were eponine, cosette, etc. The story and music are great :) Then we didn't know where to get a bus so we walked back, stopped for gelati at the same place (Bella Italia - since it was so good) as the night before, stopped at another internet cafe to print our boarding passes and such and walked back to the hotel where I made dad start packing and I packed up my things as well even though it was late.
posted by Gary Klein @ 9:55 AM
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