Pub Crawls

Second week of classes began today, with theatre in the morning. We really did nothing in there but talk about our individual reflections on Warhorse from last week. No new material or anything. It was a waste of three hours. A quick lunch later, a friend and I went in search of a post office to get stamps. We walked about a mile and found nothing, and decided to head back to class in the afternoon. My second class was extremely productive. We finished the movie version of Sense and Sensibility, discussed the book further and got into all sorts of narrative techniques that Austen employs.
After class, I read a little bit of Mansfield Park for the next class period, had dinner, and a few friends and I decided to go pub crawling through the Dick Whittington Ale Trail. Pub crawling is just going from one pub to another through the night. Dick Whittington is a legendary character who apparently came to London looking for streets paved with gold. During his search, he stopped at many pubs throughout the city, and these pubs are featured on the Ale Trail. The appeal is when you visit 5 of these pubs in any one neighborhood, and buy something to eat or drink in those places, you will get a t-shirt at the end of the night. We picked the Westminster to Piccadilly areas since they had the least number of pubs on their trail. We began with The Old Shades, right down the road from Westminster Abbey, then walked past the Abbey to The Marquis of Granby up the street to The Feather, and then took a tube to The Clarence before ending at The King's Head. It was a really fun night. I got asked to show my ID once, but being over the legal drinking age here, everything went smoothly. I made some good friends in the process, and experience London at night for under £15. I also got the t-shirt that says I walked the Ale Trail from Westminster to Piccadilly. We got back to campus right at around midnight, at which point I was too exhausted to blog, which is why I postponed it to this morning.
In another 20 minutes, I will be going on a field trip with the Jane Austen class to nearby Kenwood House, which was used as a filming location for some of the movies. The field trip shouldn't take long, which is good, because I have a long list of things to get done, mostly homework and laundry.