Cheers, London!

Hello, everyone!
Leanne and I just finished day #2 in London, and we've had a great
time so far. We saw The Sound of Music on stage last night (and
managed to stay awake through the whole thing, too!) Today we took a
nice walk through London, all the way from Buckingham Palace to
Borough Market! (For anyone unfamiliar with the city, walking between
those two points gave us a chance to walk by St. James' Park, through
Trafalgar Square, down The Strand and Fleet Street, past St. Paul's
Cathedral, across the Millenium Bridge, past the Globe Theater, and
into the back alleys of the Market.) That was a nice 'little' walk.

The Borough Market may be one of my favorite London things! Walking
through consists more of wading through the hordes of people, jostling
and pushing from every side. Every inch of space that's not filled
with the shoppers is filled with a mish-mash of stalls, selling
everything from Pecorino or Gruyere to Turkish delights and cakes.
There are some fruit and vegetable stands as well, along with sandiwch
stands and opportunities to taste other such delicacies as white
truffle honey, if you can push your way through the crowds. Every time
we turned another corner, there was another room full of more
delicious offerings to sample and look at. What fun!

And, after refueling with haloumi vegetarian burgers at the Market
(and getting a few Turkish Delights to go, too - they had a kind that
tasted like vegetarian marshmallows!), we walked back to the Tate
Modern.

Finally, though, the day caught up with us, and we barely made it back
to the hostel in time to crawl into our beds for a nap. We woke up in
time for dinner in the Covent Garden area, but are now back, and
bedtime is nearing once again...

What's left to see after all that? Plenty. But tomorrow's plan of
action is to go to Hyde Park, then to Harrod's and maybe Regent Park
before catching our flight to Edinburgh. We'll see what happens...