The adventures of the day before had been tiring, plus it was Sunday, so we slept in. We’d very little on the schedule for this day, though it ended up being nearly as jam packed as the rest of them.<\/p>\n
A 10:30 departure for Victoria Station brought us to one of the entry points for the Bus Tour we’d chosen to take. The day was chilly and a bit grey, and I was soon to regret not having a hat.<\/p>\n
We started off on the top of the bus (the whole tour was pre-recorded, and you plugged your earphones into the side of the bus next to your seat.) in the open air so as to be able to take pictures without the streaky windows obscuring the view. This was a wise choice in terms of picture taking, but with the bus driving briskly down the street and a cold wind, it was hell on my ears. They started to ache before we’d gotten more than a third through the tour.<\/p>\n
Though we made our trip in February, I’ll say now that this was really the first time that I’d felt the weather was really hampering (or, in some cases, actually enhancing) our experience.<\/p>\n
The tour was pretty good and enjoyable, but I was glad to get off of the bus and be able to try and warm up my ears. We got back on the Tube and headed to Oxford Circle, because our destination today was more stores! We went first to Hamley’s, which is a multy-story toy store, then walked down the street to Lush. We hit another Waterstone’s — this one 7 stories and probably the largest bookstore in London — and then hiked to Forbidden Planet, a large sf\/f bookstore.<\/p>\n
By then we were ravenous; we’d not had lunch, so we opted instead for an early dinner. We stopped at the Sherlock Holmes Pub and had a pretty decent meal (though I ended up with bangers and mash instead of the more healthy mushroom dish I had originally wanted — they were out.)<\/p>\n
We passed on dessert and exited the pub. After consulting the street map, we decided SoHo wasn’t too far to walk (and it really wasn’t — London is pretty similar to Boston in that almost everything major is very close together) and hiked up there. Our destination: Yo! Sushi, a kaitenzushi place (ie, sushi on a conveyor belt). I had seen it mentioned in the guide book and knew we had to go there. Bob is a very big sushi fan.<\/p>\n
I, however, am not, so while he chowed down on 6 or 8 dishes of the stuff, I nursed a plate of yakitori. But this was all right, because our next destination was. . . still more food! Yes, indeed. This was our last night in London, and there was still one more restaurant I had wanted to hit. This one was called Wagamama’s, and it was a noodle bar. It was in the same neighborhood as Yo! Sushi, so we walked over there and were quickly seated. We each ordered some soba noodles to eat. Mmm.<\/p>\n
And then, completely stuffed, we went back to our hotel. The next day was to be only a half day, as our plane departed in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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