"I am Canadian"

Current London time: Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 10:55PM.

I'll start with a bit of juvenile humour. There are a great many places and names here that are inadvertantly obscene, dirty, or stupid funny, thanks to cultural differences. The first one I came across was on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground (subway). This line runs out of Heathrow airport and goes to a station called Cockfosters. I have a picture of the second one; a tavern with a sign reading Cock Tavern - Your Friendly Local. There's also Ye Olde Cock Tavern. Yes, juvenile, but amusing nonetheless.


On a completely different subject, I went to Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. Watching the Changing of the Guards is pretty interesting. Towards the end, the band played a medley piece that included parts that were definitely swingable! Other parts had a very salsa feel. Not something I would have expected...


That night, I met up with my tour group. After dinner and a walk, a few of us (three of us Canadians and two Americans) went to a pub called The Maple Leaf. It's a Canadian-themed pub, with the interior made to look like a log house. There were Mountie uniforms on the wall, Canada flags on the ceiling, and a bear... a severely anorexic bear, but a bear all the same. This pub specialized in Canadian beers, though the selection was a little lacking. They did have Moosehead and Sleemans, though. It was a surreal experience having flown halfway around the world to end up in a "Canadian" pub in London.


Next on the surreal (or at least odd) list was Stonehenge. I've got many pictures of rocks in my collection now. I fly halfway around the world just to take pictures of rocks... albeit, large rocks. Large, famous rocks. And yet, Stonehenge was smaller than I expected...


After Stonehenge today, we headed to Bath and a tour of the Roman baths that gave the town its name. The town of Bath is an interesting place. It's a mix of modern and old; the buildings and architecture are old, yet the stores housed in the old stone are modern... like an electronics store or a Burger King.

Aside from that, there's one attraction I'll need to get back to in Bath in the future. It's a place called Fudge Kitchen. You get to watch them making the fudge, which is very cool. Even better is the free sample. After sampling, I was forced to buy some, itwas THAT good! OMFG, that was good fudge!! They have a website (http://www.fudgekitchen.co.uk) where you can buy fudge online. I wonder if they'll deliver to Canada...?
UPDATE: Looks like they have multiple locations around the UK, and yes, they DO deliver worldwide! £9.00, though.

That is all.