Bucket list time!

[sabotabby]

So much walking up hills. So worth it.

First up: Hampstead Heath. For someone who walked up multiple mountains last year, I am awful at hills. But I am going to be so fit when I get back home, omg.

Then Bucket List Item #1: Highgate Cemetery.

If I had to come up with the names of two men who are among the reasons I turned out this way, you would find both of those people buried here.



Note: No other gravestone has a lot number. Someone just put it there.

Douglas Adams sparked my love of sci-fi and British humour and as a wee tiny child of 8, I had most of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy memorized, even though at 8 there was no way I could have gotten all the references. But it was my favourite book for years and years.



I left a pen on his grave. It’s my only pen, so I guess I’ll have to get another one on the way home.

And of course, the big man himself, and I imagine I don’t need to explain why visiting his grave was the top thing I wanted to see in London:



(I have many other photos; I am sparing you b/c I am nice.)



Bonus Malcolm McLaren as he’s there too:



Then we went on a Hidden London tour of the abandoned station at Highgate. It was meant to be a Big Deal but war and economics interfered, and it was decommissioned. Now nature is reclaiming it and the city has decided to just leave it alone and let it be a sanctuary for endangered bats.



I have a lot of other pictures of it too, but for some reason Flickr isn’t allowing me to upload anything horizontal, so you’ll have to wait to see those after I edit them.

Then we went to Manuelita, a play about Manuela Saenz, a Latin American revolutionary and lover of Simón Bolívar, which was excellent and surprisingly entertaining.

Now I am off to bed.

Comments

[dagibbs]

Douglas Adams and Karl Marx -- that explains so much!

:)

[sabotabby]

There’s my personality, right there.