I hope Paris wins the bid!

It's just a few more hours.
I'm not backing the bid.

It doesn't seem fair that all of London's transport systems, utilities and the entire city itself will only be spruced up and be given a major upheaval if we win the bid.
It's not fair that the major hike in bus and tube fares will increase even more when three new stations have to be built for the Olympic village.
Why can't they clean up London without an Olympic contract? God only knows how much that needs to be done! We've been screaming about it for oh so long!

Yesterday Venki came down from Barking to walk around central London with Lu and me. We walked past the London Eye, then across the Thames to say hi to Big Ben and Westminster, then caught a bus to Chinatown and after a hearty lunch walked down to Leicester Square and then to Covent Garden where we watched several street performers and musicians, and toured all of the insides of the London Tranport Museum's shop. The Museum itself would have cost a freaking 5 quid!

Then we came to the conclusion that there was just nowhere else to go. It was raining, and thus the British Museum was a very long wet walk away. The Covent Garden performers were also taking shelter from the rain. And everything was just wet and gloomy and it felt like April showers were back again. So we went home.

What I love about London are the parks, the free museums, the kebab stalls, roast duck, krispy kremes and Covent Garden. But it just takes an annoying drizzle to spoil half of that. That and the words 'not in service' at the tube.