Aug 21, 2005 13:42
24 hours till I am back in Canada.
London is amazing, but my hostel is a grade A certified shit hole.
Last night I got caught in police tape walking down the Kensington high street. Someone found a "suspicious package" in a grocery store and within 5 minutes, half of the London police department showed up along with fire trucks. I stood outside a pub watching the scene unfold.
People here are tough, though. I was on the tube the other day and a voice came over the P.A. announcing that our train would not be stopping at the next station and we were going to be re-routed somewhere else because the fire department had shut down the station. I started getting nervous thinking about what could happen, but I looked around and nobody else seemed to give two shits.