the last days in the UK

So, my last few days in the UK were fairly eventful. I went out on the town with a kid from gay.com. Saturday evening I had drinks at Sanctuary, ended up just chatting with him. Then we grabbed burger king (eyeroll). We watched part of a huge breast cancer marathon. In the 20 minutes we sat there, we caught neither the beginning nor the end of the stream of people walking by, late at night. This was right outside picadilly circus, not far from buckingham palace.

Sunday, I caught the changing of the guard before heading off to Oxford to spend some quality time with Ro. I had another curry + pear crumble meal (at the nosebag in oxford, tastty, but a bit pricy. =) Oxford is pretty, it was great seeing Ro again, more pictures will be forthcoming.

Monday, I checked out the London Eye (huge lines! I passed on it), and the British Museum. More pictures. Huge, enormous, filled with priceless artifacts. Pretty, too. Art ranging from the modern to the truly ancient. Countless artifacts and archaelogical stuff too. I got totally lost. I had dinner at Mildred’s. Spotted a gay bar on the way. Mildred’s, good food. Slow service, but I found it friendly. They are looking for waitstaff. It has a rep for iffy service, but I think that’s mainly due to being swamped.

Later in the evening, I came back to the bar. It was smoky of course, I got hit on by some very inebriated guys who I did not find attractive. Eventually settled in to chat with a friendly, older, deaf bear. He introduced me to his friends. Turns out that 3 of us were from ohio. The friendly bear was from Berlin, OH, and a friend of his from Steubenville. Heh. Still, they were good, friendly people. Tea & hot chocolate afterwards, then back to the hostel to get ready for the plane flight to germany … which is another story. =)