Random musings, notes from travels I

So, I figured since I'm traveling, I might as well be writing down notes about some experiences...and what better place to do it than this depository-of-thoughts-to-be-collecting-dust aka facebook.

I don't know why, but I'm always a bit fascinated by the history of places I go to, and for some reason particularly the history of the British isles. Perhaps it has to do with seeking out roots and beginnings - understanding the source is the _way_ to understanding the present. Or maybe it's the mystery of the Celts..or an even earlier culture that erected stones 5,000 years ago (which is the time of Mabul, according to some at least), for no reason at all known to us.

Anyway, today I went to the tower of London and saw a much younger artifact - a wall from the Roman times, about 2000 years old. Not a wall, actually, but a tiny piece of it just north of the tower of london underground station. It used to surround the original city of London, or Londinium as the Romans called it. Which was probably about half a mile long and a mile wide. I walked up and touched it, and all around me people were rushing about their daily business [it happens to be in the modern business district], ignoring the wall's presence. I thought this synthesis of the ancient and the modern was kind of cool actually - the continuum of a city through 2000 years, uninterrupted and not unnaturally segregated. Some deep thought occurred to me at that point, but right now I'm sitting here chillin' in an internet cafe and I forgot what it was. Oh well :)