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I had a wonderful couple days in London this past weekend. First off, on Friday night we put on our drinking caps and David and I headed into the trendy area of downtown London known as Camden via train. We met up with Dave’s former flatmate Jon and a couple of Jon’s exuberant work colleagues. The five of us then started off on an unexpected but delightful pub crawl, which took us all over Camden. This being my very first night of drinking in London, I had the luck of fabricating the event into, “Lets show this American how we party in London!” Which basically meant that I had drinks handed to me the entire night and I was in a whimsical state by the time I made it back to King’s Cross to catch the midnight train home. It is also noteworthy to point out that our group of five consisted of two Brits, a Scot, an American, and a Australian. Only in London…

I was also shocked to find out the very next day there was a terrible fire in Camden Market! And to think the night before we were right across the canal from where the fire started.

Camden Locks

From right: Becky, Matt, Jon, and Steve. A photo from across Regent’s Canal, left.

On Sunday, I was off to London again, this time with Luke and my father-in-law, Slawek. It was a gorgeous sunny and warm afternoon, without a cloud in the sky, which made the perfect backdrop for my camera. (Quick side note:  we had about a 7 day period with flawless sunny weather, and this quite perplexed me. I thought I was living in the UK?)

We were thinking about what to do in London that day when it occurred  to me that this was my 5th trip into the city and I had yet to see any of sights that make London famous. For example: Big Ben. Or Westminster. Or Buckingham Palace. Or Trafalgar Square! So that afternoon we trekked all around town, seeing famous building after famous building, until our feet were sore. Didn’t go inside any of them… most were closed on Sundays and besides, it was too nice a day to be cooped up in a museum. And of course, I took a bunch of photos. (Click the picture below to see the full set.)