The joys of tourist-dodging...

[jencat]

As galling as it's been to spend most of the week working at the hospital directly across the Thames from where I should be working (and at approximately half the pay *chokes*), therein lies the part where I get to cross the Thames every day...

It sounds silly, but it's one of those things that make the commute even remotely interesting.  And much as I loved crossing London Bridge every day, with that built in view of Southwark Cathedral, and Tower Bridge, and  even the odd architecture of Cannon Street station, back on Westminster Bridge you get, like, all the proper tourist trappings too!

So far: a Scottish guy very enthusiastically busking with bagpipes, a saxophonist busking, about 6 stands selling caramelised peanuts (two of whom were having a light sabre duel yesterday...), three with hotdogs, and the pancake place I finally gave into today... plus, the sunset heading west down the Thames, the light reflecting off Westminster Palace just before sunset and someone playing an accordion in the tube subway.  Also, I've crashed about two dozen tourist's photos of Big Ben/The London Eye... I do, indeed, consider myself entertained this week.  Now I just need to make an escape before the med sec mindset gets too ingrained again... I'm still at the stage of being nice to patients even when they yell at me.  This, too, shall pass...