{"id":1123,"date":"2010-09-04T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2010-09-04T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T23:18:53","slug":"london-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/04\/london-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"London Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our time in London is almost up: we leave tomorrow for the University of Sussex for Kat’s conference, which is the theoretical purpose of the trip.<\/p>\n

We have covered London pretty well, considering the short time we were here: British Museum, Greenwich Observatory (and thus the Prime Meridian), Westminster Abbey, and we walked around\/past Trafalgar Square, Westminster Hall, Buckingham Palace, Trocadero, Chinatown, Covent Garden, London Eye, St. Paul’s Cathedral.<\/p>\n

Certainly the highlights for me were the British Museum and Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n

The British Museum (motto: “we’re going to steal your antiquities, but promise they’ll still be around in a hundred years, okay?”) has an awesome collection and I’m glad I had a chance to see it. The Westminster Abbey (motto: “if they’re important and dead, we have them here”) audio tour was narrated by Jeremy Irons, which alone was enough to put it near the top of the list. Also Newton and Darwin (and a bunch of kings or whatever) are buried there.<\/p>\n

I have posted a few photos from the trip<\/a>. More will appear when we get back (and Internet-access-permitting, through the trip).<\/p>\n

But more importantly, I have several questions about British people, based on observations made in and while walking past British pubs.<\/p>\n

Question 1: Do British people not eat?<\/strong> Every restaurant and pub we walked by were filled with guys drinking beer. I don’t think I saw more than a dozen people actually eating in restaurants the whole time we were here. That was consistent across the whole after-work time span. Do people skip dinner just to drink? Do they somehow rush home and eat before getting to the pub at 6:00?<\/p>\n

Question 2: Following up from the previous evidence: Where are the women?<\/strong> Every pub I was in was about 3 men (drinking beer) to each woman (drinking white wine). I assume women do something and don’t all just sit at home when the men are out? Are there places somewhere with 3 women to each guy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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