The Looooooong Walk Home

The Orangery High Tea
Originally uploaded by AliChen

Yep, this is the station. Oh, yeah! Forgot about that tunnel. And the street musicians, forgot about the wonderful musicians in this tunnel too.

Oh boy. Forgot how looooong this tunnel is too and my feet are killing me.

I've just spent the morning in Camden Market. Found the bookbag that had been eluding me in the U.S.A. there but I'm meeting up with one of my travel mates for High Tea. We're meeting across from Royal Albert Hall at the gates there...I think.

South Kensington station is the station for all of the students going University for music at the Royal College. It's also the tunnel to Imperial College and the Royal Albert Hall and the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum as well.

The tunnel, the long, long tunnel--that I'm running down because I'm late--has different musicians playing for money all of the time. And they're not your usual street musicians. I've heard quartets as beautiful as I've heard in larger classical venues around the world. It's quite nice.

Did I mention I'm wearing high heels and a skirt?

Oh, and did I mention it's drizzling too? My feet are killing me. Yes, I did mention that, I know.

Leaving the station I come upon another traveling companion. She's on her way to Covent Garden. Her tour of Royal Albert Hall was a no go due to the Remembrance Day celebration they're setting up there. Remembrance Day is similar to the U.S. Veteran's day but for WWI and WWII veterans and also without the mattress sales.

My friend isn't at the gate. Well, Kensington Park has a lot of gates. I go to almost every one of them until I finally find her. I'm out of breath (I ran) and my feet are screaming since I've basically run the distance from South Kensington station to High Street Kensington. (It's longer than a few blocks.)

But, we have a great high tea at The Orangery and it's very nice. Great to sit down for awhile too.

We walk back to our hotel to meet for dinner at a pub and then go see The Quantum of Solace (it opened Oct 31st here in London) - yes it was good. But I have nightmares this night.

Oh, did I tell you I'm not great with violence and scary things. So, I've had nightmares almost every night here. Here's my list:

1. Jack the Ripper Tour - self explanatory
2. The Woman in Black - very scary lady who kept showing up in my dreams. I really didn't sleep at all that night.
3. The Quantum of Solace - I won't explain since most of you are in the U.S. and haven't seen it yet.

Needless to say. I'm tired. But we're off to Ireland! It can't get spookier right?