Adventuring

Drumming on Rock Band is a tiring ordeal, so Julie-oh and I decided to pop over to London yesterday for a fun day out. We started off in a psychadelic little square hidden away just off Covent Garden known as Neal's Yard.

Apparently very popular amongst the vegan community, Neal's Yard is precisely what would happen if a bunch of hippies got hold of the square Monty Python used to live on at the same time that Dulux were trying to shift some of their more unusual shades of paint. I'm told this is exactly the case.


_{Python's old house, and some of the hippy shops}

I was a fan of the unorthodox decor and atmosphere leant by the kind of people who sit around such decor, and surprisngly also of the food there, which was the reason we went. Julie-oh found lots of gluten-free goodness there to eat (pies, bread, lots more) and I'm sure she'll blog about that, but for now I'll just say that it was better than normal, fully glutenated food. Sweet.


<sub>The 'restaurant'


The deli serves meat based food too, if you don't mind a dirty look or two</sub>

We decided to pop over to Camden Town after this for some shopping, and across the way stumbled over some graffiti that Will had been showing us in a book just the night before. It's a piece by Banksy, drawn straight onto a standard brick wall. Apparently he'd painted it white the week before the actual drawing by dressing up as a workman and putting some signs up - smooth.


_{Masterful - click to embiggen}

In Camden I managed to add to my pretentious look by buying a great beret, along with some other tie-dye oddities, of the ilk normally found in Camden market stalls.


_{I think the sour look and neck-tie set it off well, if only I had a moustache...}

Finally, it was off to the Museum of London - one of the lesser known London museums, but still really cool. They had skeletons from 200,000BC found in what is now London, along with the usual (but well done) whipthrough of the evolution of man, from bits of stone through to rough axes through to sharp swords - all the ways of killing things you could want. Women, on the other hand, invented nice pottery in about 2,000BC and didn't move on much, from what I can see.

There's also a tacky piece around the Great Fire there (apparently it was quite hot) and a fairly interesting Roman section too. Worth a visit if you've done the other museums.