Yesterday, Sachi and I had a fun day walking about central London, rather thoroughly unplanned. One thing we quickly discovered: a lot of shops don’t do business on weekends. We didn’t know where they did do business (lots of good shopping areas), we just happened to walk around St. Paul’s around 10 am, and it was virtually a ghost town. Still, we did get to see some nice sites, street stuff, cool buildings and the like. London atmosphere.

I love these little side streets, whether they are Shanghai, London, or Tokyo.

And some of the buildings on these roads are very nice.

Something that Sachi tended to do was to spot a landmark that seemed unusual, and suddenly insist that we have to see that. “Why?” I would ask; Sachi would say, “that’s an important place!” “Really?” I would tease, “what is it?” And of course, she wouldn’t have the slightest clue. That became a running gag for us. “Hey, look! That building must be important!”

We eventually found our way down to the Thames, and crossed a pedestrian bridge just south of St. Paul’s.

Walking a bit on the other side, we stumbled across a building I recognized: the Globe Theater. It’s kind of cool to be walking along and just happening to see Shakespeare’s workplace, like “Oh, hey, look.”

More soon….