Three non-vacation, awesome things of the moment:
· This soap Le Petit Marseillais that's vegan and leaves my hands slippery and smelling like olive oil.
· This weather! It's like 60!
· Best of Bootie 2006. Thanks for the recommendation, Seth.
I'm going to London tomorrow. With recommendations from friends and wikitravel I've organized what I need to see by Friday morning.
Hot Fuzz, CYHSY, Kylie exhibit, Indian Food, Sherlock, Abbey Road, GMT
North West
-Primrose Hill
West
-Shepherd's Bush
--Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! @ Shepherd's Bush Empire 2/13
--BBC
-Kensington
--V&A Museum
---Kylie Exhibit
-Notting Hill
--Electric Cinema
--Portabello Market
--Notting Hill Gate
-Chelsea
--King Street
South West London
-Brixton
-Kew Gardens
-Tooting
--Radha Krishna Bhavan (86 Tooting High Street)
East
-Brick Lane
-Shoreditch
South East
-Greenwich
--Royal Observatory
--Cutty Sark
North
-Camden Town
--Drugs, ha
--Elephant's Head, absinthe bar?
--Markets
---Stables (open?)
--Chalk Farm
--Abbey Road
--Kings Cross
---St Pancras Station (Harry Potter)
**Central London***
-Marylebone
--221b Baker St
--Hyde Park
-Bloomsbury
--British Museum
-City of London
--Tower of London
--Tower Bridge
--Old Bailey
--Lloyd's building
--Swiss re gherkin
-South Bank
--Tate Modern
--Shakespeare's Globe
--Walk along South Bank
-West End
--Trafalgar Square
--Leicester Square
---Hot Fuzz Premier 2/13, opens 2/14
--Covent Garden
--Piccadilly Circus
-St. James's
--Buckingham Palace
--Houses of Parliament
--Big Ben
-Westminster
--Downing Street
--Covent Garden
--St. James's Park
--Westminster Abbey
I don't necessarily like visiting cities by myself (as it's not like what going to Disney World by myself would be as I imagined when I was 10, going on all the rides I wanted to..), but I'll add this to Vienna, Amsterdam and Rome to my solo visits. I'll be staying with someone I found on couchsurfing.com. Then I meet my parents and brother in Paris. Then we go to Dublin and the rest of Ireland.
Be back in two weeks.
Comments
If you get a chance in London the Camden Market is cool.
Posted by: outo bol | February 12, 2007 11:11 AM
Yes I second that. The neighborhood surrounding the market is also quite interesting...definitely can make a whole day out of it.
Posted by: ben | February 12, 2007 11:30 AM
when are you going to maroc?
Posted by: george | February 12, 2007 11:42 AM
I went to Paris for two days by myself. It was a lot of fun but I only ate pastries because they were the easiest thing to order (as the only complete sentences i could remember from high school french were "I would like...", "I am 18!", and "I [don't] like/love pizza!")
Posted by: beth | February 12, 2007 11:46 AM
camden is definitely on my list. (can no click on my bolded link? it's all javascriptified, like an lj-cut)
i'm going to morocco at the beginning of april.
all i've been eating while in france has been pastries. mainly bread, but croissants and chocolatines as well!
Posted by: kevin | February 12, 2007 2:35 PM
Hi there!
is there anyone who knows place that i can get le petit marseillais in london? please let me know!
Thanks
Posted by: Nourse | May 27, 2007 4:57 PM