Touristing

I spent a few days in London. I love London. So much history of humanity, which I like to explore in the form of great storytelling. I took a whole bunch of walking tours with the London Walking Tour company, and there were all awesome. The guides are really knowledgeable, and I believe they are all actors, as they are animated and fascinating to listen to. And very funny, in that terrific dry english way.
www.walks.com
I learned a tonne of cool stuff, like that London was first named Londonium when it was founded by the Romans. I cannot believe I never clued in that London was a Roman city - of course it would have been! I did one tour inside the ancient city walls. The wall is 95% gone now, but we did walk on a street called 'Wall Street" (in the financial district, coincidentally enough). The old Londoners were pretty literal in their naming of streets, so you can guess what business was done on Shoe Lane, or Stonecutter Street. When I spotted Love Street, and asked about that, he said that during those times, there were 2 streets with legalised prostitution: Love Street and ............ Cock Street. :-P