I arrived in London a month ago today! It was market morning at Petticoat Lane and Brick Lane, and my favourite, the Sunday Upmarket. There were a lot more stalls in Petticoat Lane than when Gord and I were there a couple of weeks ago, and Cathy and I found Tubby Isaacs seafood stall where we tried a cold seafood sampling of mussels, cockles, and something else that was like a big mussel. These mussel-like things were too large to eat in one biteful, unfortunately, because, when I took a bite out of one, the remaining piece displayed this pseudopod, or foot-like thing, which I just couldn't manage to eat. We had a good laugh over it many times during the day, but I guess you had to be there.

Found many nice things, some jewelry, and some Sindhi quilts, but I only bought one small thing for someone who will remain nameless at this time. Cathy found a nice piece of artwork. We tried some Tunisian mint tea which was delicious and which I will try to replicate at home. We also shared a plate of Ethiopian vegetarian food, also delicious.

Then we went to the British Museum where we did the audio highlights tour. This museum is so huge that when we would find the room in which a particular item from the audio tour was located, we had trouble finding the actual item in the room. They told us it was a treasure hunt, but we wasted many valuable minutes trying to actually find the items. When the museum was closing at 5:30, I returned the audio guides and mentioned that it had been difficult to locate all of the artworks. I found out that the audio guide kiosk is independent, i.e., not run by the museum, and one of the people there said that they had tried the audioguide and found it difficult too; they also explained that the museum only allows them to display the audio guide logo very inconspicuously. But they did write on our receipt that we could come back tomorrow to finish the tour which was nice. Still love those Elgin Marbles.

We decided to take a bus home instead of the subway. That was a big mistake. We waited 40 minutes for our bus which was supposed to come every 12 minutes on Sundays and then the bus driver stopped the bus half way home and made everyone get off because it was not going any further (never did find out why). So we waited another while for a different bus that we could take that would get us a little further home, got off that one and took yet a third bus. We finally arrived home after 1-1/2 hours, tired and hungry. We knew that we had surpassed our 6.7 miles of the other day, but when Cathy checked the pedometer it was not on, so we couldn't tell. I'm sure it was 9 or 10 miles. That must mean we burned 400 calories. Wow.