Apparently Deb’s little camera did not have the anti-shake thing turned on when the flash is off and that’s why a lot of the photos that I took without flash are a little blurry and some are just totally crap. The photos that I took with the handicam are good, but that thing is bulky and hard to carry around, and the battery does not last long. I can’t win.

Anyway, we took the bus into London. From there we took the underground to some station to switch tubes to get to Tower Hill to get on the light rail to get to the convention center for London Expo. It took way longer than we expected and were unable to get interview time with either Ron Moore or the cast of Merlin. The hall was overcrowded with anime geeks. I’m not into anime so I have no idea what they were all dressed as. It was assholes to elbows in the convention hall and kinda stinky. The T-shirts and toys were overpriced, and add to that the awful conversion rate from us dollars to gbp and you get me buying nothing. The press room was like a closet. We were severely underwhelmed.

After having a pie and mash and peas for lunch, we got out of there and went to the Tower of London. We got there kinda late, so we had to hurry to see a few exhibits. We saw the English Crown Jewels, which were incredibly impressive. A solid gold punch bowl as big as a tub with intricate design work all over it is just an extravagant show of wealth. America (read: I) needs some crown jewels. We also saw an exhibit of royal armor and a medieval tower. I also got to do the Barry Dance in front of one of those guards in red with a furry black hat.

We were hungry so we went to Picadilly Circus to look around and see what’s available. The first place we went to was really loud and we got sat at a shitty table so we left. We settled on a steak place and had a good bottle of wine. It was raining, but we took a long walk to the bus stop instead of using the tube.

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