My flight from Washington Dulles leaves at 9PM Friday and arrives at 9:30AM Saturday. I take the tube to Oxford Circus, and find the hostel on Noel St. My friend Seth (traveling the world with one week in London) is already there and asleep. I wander east on Oxford St. to find the location of the nearest internet cafe and some bookstores on Charing Cross Rd. I stop in Soho square to read for a while.
When I get back, Seth’s up and we head over to a cafe on Poland Street and get sandwiches, then go to easyEverything, the cheapest internet cafe. Email (for him) taken care of and Paul McCartney tickets purchased (for me), we hit Sainsbury’s next door for some food, then wander down Charing Cross Rd. We hit Trafalgar Square and keep on going, taking a right at Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. At Buckingham Palace, the guards aren’t doing much, so we take another right and head back to the hostel through Green Park. Once there, we lie down to rest briefly, falling asleep for a couple hours. Hungry, we head out to Moon and Sixpence, a J.D. Wetherspoon’s chain pub two blocks east of the hostel. After a couple of burgers (and a couple of pints), we go to the theatre district, which has street musicians and lots of people. After one more pint at a pub near Chinatown, we go crash.
[Originally published at GoHither.Net]