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The Eye May 27, 2008

My friend Jane arrived in London yesterday, so I again had company in my journeys across the city. We took a 3 hour walking tour this morning that hit a lot of the places I’ve posted about already, but it was interesting to hear the history behind everything I’ve seen. Like did you know that it is legal to kill a Scottish person with a bow and arrow in the city of York, as long as the man is armed? And that the Winston Churchill statue outside the Houses of Parliament has an electric charge so birds don’t sit on him and poo on his head? Or that there are pelicans living in St. James’s Park, and they eat pigeons whole? Now you know. We were able to catch part of the changing of the guards ceremony outside Buckingham Palace, which I missed when I visited a few days ago. Lots of pomp and circumstance, as well as tubas. Or sousaphones, as I was corrected by Jane the musicology student.

After the tour we were quite tired so we stopped into a pub and ate some food and drank some beer. Two hours later (after some confusion with the food), we decided to make our way over to the London Eye. I had been on the Eye when I was in London 7 years ago, but Jane had never been and it gives such great views of the city. You can see Peaches in the photo above enjoying the view. The line to get on the Eye was heinous, and it’s completely over-priced, but it’s definitely a cool thing to do.