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Sunday, March 29, 2009

London Day 6

I've been busy nonstop since I arrived in London six days ago. I have a lot of pictures to share and I'll try my best to remember all the facts for each because there was a lot of information being thrown at us during our eight hour excursions of London. For the most part now I'm on my own, no more guided tours. Although one of my teachers Peter, who is also one of the people who have coordinated the Spring in London study abroad program at UofW is extremely knowledgable about everything London.

So before I introduce a few of the pictures I've taken, I have to share a few things that have surprised me since I've been here.

The first of course is that mace is illegal, which I said in my last blog. The 2nd day of class, those of us who had mace were advised not to take it to the police, but to tie it to a rock and throw it into the river. Hardcore huh.

London is one of the most camera monitored cities in the world. This is what I've been told. And I'm not surprised because I see cameras EVERYWHERE.

TV shows in America, like American Idol for instance, are sponsored, and we see those sponsors all over the commercials and in the shows. But here, sponsorship is different. A lot of the American shows I've watched here have labels blurred out, like the judges coke cups on American Idol. Kinda interesting I guess.

Londoners honk (beep) more than any city I've ever been to. And they don't like to slow down if you're in a crosswalk. In fact I swear I hear car engines getting louder as they speed up toward me.

In the pub, Londoners like to buy rounds. It goes around until everybody has bought a round. Most of the beer I've had has not been served warm or room temperature as the guidebooks like to say. Also they like their lemonade. Vodka lemonade seems to be a popular drink here. As well as a beer that is mixed or made with lemonade, it's called a Shandy. Last night I had a beer called BitBurger, so good.

1 comment:

Val said...

Bitburger is German! You should have some real ales, as the brits call them. Of course I can't remember any off the top of my head right now... Just stay away from Welsch Ciders!