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上周四刚开学，明天就要做pre­sen­ta­tion了。。。无语。最近有一些些抓吗，过几天慢慢道来。不过总体生活还是不错的，就差一个自行车。成吧，俺写作业去了。何丽山尼姑庵的主持和贫尼们安好，俺在哥本哈根的光棍热线无时无刻欢迎你们。

另外，哪位知道word­press怎么搞成双语的？雷雷同学消失太久了吧。啊啊啊。

周五考完final之后把行李搬到住了6个星期的即将关闭的commonwealth hall的旁边的huges parry hall。之后神清气爽的去了Archi­tec­tural Asso­ci­a­tion。AA果然如同雷克斯所说地理位置和大门诡异，但还是顺利的进入内部一览，并蹭了半天他们的summer school final project presentation。晚上和chloe去了greater lon­don palace，看到了期待已久的伦敦市政厅 — 那个有着飘逸发型的伦敦市长Boris工作的地方。再后来去了northumberland，和朋友道别，然后体验了下伦敦出租车 — 迫不得已因为地铁关了。一大早到了希斯罗机场，脑海里开始回放真爱至上(Love Actually)里面休格兰特扮演的首相的经典台词

When­ever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Air­port. Gen­eral opinion’s start­ing to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is every­where. Often, it’s not par­tic­u­larly dig­ni­fied or news­wor­thy, but it’s always there — fathers and sons, moth­ers and daugh­ters, hus­bands and wives, boyfriends, girl­friends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Tow­ers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the peo­ple on board were mes­sages of hate or revenge — they were all mes­sages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion… love actu­ally is all around.

二号登机楼好古老。无聊的我打算用里面电脑上网，投进的一磅硬币居然卡在了投币口，推不下去拔不出来相当让我哭笑不得。后来登机，英国居然不盖出境章，纳闷了好久，还以为自己忘了……

快降落在戴高乐机场的时候，在飞机上能看到巴黎全景，可爱的机长呼吁全机人看埃菲尔铁塔。飞机平安落地后全机人激情四射的开始鼓掌，引用RP Cul­ture会长之言，“恭喜你乘坐了正宗欧洲班机。”

戴高乐机场Ter­mi­nal 2F和2E一样，颇为惊艳。通透的玻璃和如同骨骼般的结构，繁密却不压抑，照片远远无法展现在其之下的真实感受。飞回上海的航班上同坐是两个法国同志，飞着飞着后面的小豆子开始嚎哭，找爸爸妈妈，其中一个就去自发义务哄孩子去了，专业的很，我那个大汗啊。

从上海到北京的航班之间有4、5个小时，刚好RP会长也在，就坐了磁悬浮（先进啊！！！）到了市区和会长碰头。两人吃完早饭后无趣决定去外滩转转，路上看到了dunkin donuts中文版，据说都开了5年了。这可是俺第一次见到，猛一瞅还以为山寨再现……

一切为了世博，外滩变成了新的大工地。

絮絮叨叨了那么多，重点来了！参观完外工地版外滩后，会长带俺去了“荧七人间”。在巨鹿路805号的荧七，是竹一、无二、砚三、泷四、泉五、穹六、萤七系列餐馆之一。旁边的803号是shintori新都理，环境也很不错。

巨鹿路803号新都理。

这是荧七的大门，如果不说是餐馆一般很难把这种门和餐馆联系起来。密码每天都会换。这种大门可以用来逗第一次来的人。会长最爱的一种就是让新人说，芝麻开门。。。

和会长吃了中午的lunch spe­cial。上面是会长点的梅花排骨下面是俺点的豆腐，很个性是用纸锅盛的，俩人还无聊的讨论了下十万个为什么之为什么能用纸锅煮开水的问题，亲爱的小朋友们，你们知道么。。。。。。

下面是个性的厕所，研究怎么开门花了半天，重点在颇有欺骗性的把手。荧七环境不错，设计个性，但是除了lunch special外价位是在有些不能接受。不过lunch special还真是挺超值的。有机会再去穹六看看，希望也有那么超值的时候。。。

短暂的上海4小时后我到了北京，北京48小时后到了家，在家72小时后就要去哥本哈根了。

御宅真舒服啊！！！

Time has come to my last two days in Lon­don. The end of sum­mer school is the pre­lude of the end­ing of sum­mer. Mar­itime cli­mate city in the sum­mer time often reminds me of the early fall sea­son in New Eng­land — unex­pected rain show­ers, some foliage, chilly morn­ing and evening time, well, maybe that’s why New Eng­land is New Eng­land. I’m going back to China on Sat­ur­day, where the weather is 30+ cel­sius, approx­i­mately 86+ fahren­heit — that is more like sum­mer to me. Undoubt­edly, I’m def­i­nitely going to miss this city.

view of lon­don from ver­tigo 42

Shipped out my stuff to Copen­hagen today, hope­fully it will arrive in DIS office next week. Today’s going to be busy -

9:00 — 11:00 final exam
11:00 — 12:00 pull my lug­gages from rus­sel square (where i lived for the past 6 weeks in lon­don, nice place!) to northum­ber­land, one of lse dorms, in which i’m going to spend my very last night in the city
12:00 — 15:30 northen­line then cen­tral line to shepherd’s bush then v&a museum
15:30 — 17:00 archi­tec­ture asso­ci­a­tion near british museum
17:00 meet chloe at lse
17:00 after­wards last glimpse of national gallery and its mag­nif­i­cent col­lec­tions, tar­fal­gar square and the daily per­for­mance art there
after national gallery head off to hard rock cafe near pic­cadilly
then back to northum­ber­land
Sat­ur­day
5:30 leave for heathrow

Guess I’ll write more when in the airport.

Unlike pre­vi­ous ses­sion, which lec­ture ends at 5pm, classes end up early at 3pm this week. I got plenty of time to go to National Gallery for the “Corot to Monet” exhi­bi­tion this Fri­day after­noon. Been here in Lon­don for 5 weeks already and it was not until today did I step in to National Gallery…what a shame. The exhi­bi­tion is excel­lent, it includes paint­ings from ear­lier land­scape painters to bar­bi­zon school to impres­sion­ists. If time allowed, a sec­ond visit is def­i­nitely on my schedule.

After my visit to National Gallery, I went to Spi­tal­field with Chloe for a restau­rant named Can­teen. It has been rec­om­mended by both Lonely Planet and Wall­pa­per City Guide. We thought it’d be pretty good…yet it’s just aver­age to me, at least for its sig­na­ture fish and chips. Don’t always rely on rec­om­men­da­tions, (though I love Mango Room, another restu­arnt rec­om­mended by Lonely Planet), just like cam­era some­times lies.

Located in Spi­tal­field Mar­ket, Liv­er­pool Street, Can­teen is a British chain restau­rant with very clean and min­i­mal logo, reminds me of designer shop at first sight.

Min­i­mal­ism in the menu design. I like it.

Canteen’s sig­na­ture fish and chips, eaten in the tra­di­tional way — vine­gar and salt. Fish was good, but chips were really dis­ap­point­ing — nei­ther fresh nor crisp.

My first time to try Scotch egg with pic­calilli, very inter­est­ing, and the sauce is pretty good.

Rhubarb com­pote and fresh straw­ber­ries, I have to say rhubarb resem­bles cel­ery to me!!

We had a steak and Chloe ordered a choco­late sun­dae as desert (play it safe, for the sake of my vir­gin Bloody Mary with cel­ery the other day). A good meal, but aver­age food. Plan after the meal was to see Adam, the movie. But turned out to be a Plan B a tour near Thames. We stopped by the Big Ben, West­min­ster, and went to South Bank for Lon­don Eye, and Mary-go-around!

Some archi­tec­ture of today

Liv­er­pool Station

RBS at Liv­er­pool Street

Inte­rior of LSE New Aca­d­e­mic Building

Only one week left in Lon­don, will leave this charm­ing city on August 15th. Then it’s time to say HELLO COPENHAGEN!

在伦敦快一个月了。今天的天气爆好，阳光普照，可昨日却还是阴雨连连。周六和Chloe约好今天到她推荐的Camden Market一转。在伦敦转过几个market了，Convent Gar­den Mar­ket, Por­to­bello Mar­ket, 还有Liv­er­pool Street附近的Spitalfields Mar­ket. Cam­den Market是去过这么多里面最大的一个。毗邻“小威尼斯”河畔，这里是不少朋克哥特还有众多老古董的集中地。这样的好天气，人潮自然滚滚而来。。。