Sightseeing in London

There is a lot that I have seen and a lot that I haven't.  It's a few more weeks in and I feel as though the sightseeing list is ever growing.  I've looked at my lists and I feel pretty confident about ticking all the major parks of London.

1. Watched the sun go down on Primrose Hill

2. Stolled passed the flower beds of Regent's Park

3. Lunched on a bench in St James's Park

4. Watched the runners in Hyde Park
5. Crossed into Kensington Gardens

6. Enjoyed the out-of-city feel of Richmond Park

The wonderful fact about London is, during a time of unpredictable growth in the 1900s, people were quick to save parks and gardens from becoming development plots.  Although we are in the U.K. capital of concrete jungles, greenery is not without reach.

What fascinates me is the depth of history that London has to offer.  I cannot help but wonder how many people have walked on this same street I was walking on today.  What were they wearing and what was "modern" to them at that time.  It could just be me and my education of Australian history "one day there was spears and dreamtime, then one day there was white men and guns".  When I look at the streets of London, I can see the gradual development of this city and the influences from so many decades.  You cannot see that back in Oz, unless you really like 70s architecture.

I'm definitely keeping my eyes open and spending a lot of my days looking up.

The first two weeks of London life.

So here I am, week 2 into the next years of my life, sitting on an uncomfortable couch of an expensive to rent apartment in the middle of London City.  The apartments are directly outside Liverpool Street and could not be in a better location to don your London boots and stamp around the city.  On one side is the East end and the other the financial district, which should symbolically have train tracks to separate the two because it is that obvious when each district ends and begins.  I like it.

The jet lag took a week or so.  It's amazing how cloudy and drowsy you can feel, yet awake up with all hairs on end at 4am in the morning - days in a row.  After one week of jet lag, all goes back into place.  Humans were never built to travel this quickly.  

I think I have spent the time well so far, catching up with friends, thanks to secret surprise get togethers arranged by Will.  Plus this is the perfect postion to be in to freely sight-see around London, I don't know when I'll have such a luxury again in my life, best to make sure use of it and waste none of it.

To end my first post, I found a fantastic quote today by Dr Samuel Johnson "To be bored with London is to be bored with life itself."