Beware Of Thieves In London At Changing Of Guard - Bad Weather Day / Top Of Tower Bridge & The Shard
London Jan 2025
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Sunday January
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26th 2025 I am in route walking to
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Buckingham
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Palace welcome everyone Adam the woo
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here there's a gentleman back there he's
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got his arm stretched out feeding the
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birds I think Mary would make Mary
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Poppins and the bird lady from Mary
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Poppins very happy about how see people
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right there feeding the birds I'm going
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to go check out first and foremost The
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Changing of the Guard
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Buckingham and then after that a few
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other things and throughout the course
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of this entire day I'm inviting you to
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join me it's good to have you here shall
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you current time 10:05 I believe The
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Changing of the Guard is at 10:45 or at
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least begins there and lasts about a
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half hour 42° going to be windy the next
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couple hours and going to be some
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precipitation 75% chance of rain
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starting at 1 throughout the course of
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the day
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so might get a little wet the info I
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could find this happens evidently every
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other day doesn't happen every day but
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every other day and draws quite a few
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people to this
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event should be pretty pretty
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interesting to
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see I don't know where the best spot is
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it's filling up pretty quickly you
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notice a lot of people have their
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luggage they probably just checked out
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of their hotel before going to the
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airport maybe they just arrived they're
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down here with their luggage before or
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after Hotel time want to see this
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event lot of people pickpocketing you
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might be taking a picture and someone
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might be rifling through your pocket
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just be careful please
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officers have
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signs and they're also on Horseback
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there everyone know there's a lot of
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pickpockets and thieves out so got to be
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careful got my wallet in my front pocket
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normally I keep my phone in my left
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front pocket and then my wallet in my
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right front pocket but based on what
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they were saying I have zipper pockets
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on my jacket
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so I
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have zipper pocket zipped up wallet
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there and then my phone zipper pocket
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zipped up right
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there one thing I'm noticing this
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officer is saying saying take all
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backpacks off put them on the front
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backpacks need to be on the front of
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your body that way nobody can rumage
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around through it and you're not paying
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attention on your back
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all right that just happened there was
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definitely a lot more people out here
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watching this than I expected didn't
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know what really was going to happen but
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it was it was definitely very
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interesting all right it's raining now
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Allison's here who watch
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out I was going to say you were smart
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for bringing an umbrella but maybe not
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local to the area you say it always
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rains here so Allison is a moderator on
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the wuan Facebook group that's right
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shout out to the wuan
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yeah that's happening to them
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too all the umbrellas are
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inside look at this what is happening
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down here this this like magical animal
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moments down here you got a there's a
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goose right there you got a squirrel
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over it's like something out of a Disney
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film got squirrel over there you got
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pigeons you got
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doves seag I think this might be a
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seagull
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that I've had bad luck with
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Geese they like to they seem very kind
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though American geese are very angry UK
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geese are very very friendly stop
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feeding the
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there this bridge what is going on with
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the amount of
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people it's like elbow to elbow and
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umbrella to Umbrella down this
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bridge okay this is interesting everyone
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dressed in their period Garb over there
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as well as over here even have the
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drummer playing the drums even got some
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cannons over here this is an interesting
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know
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Recreation of some
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sort it's definitely wet and brisk here
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the k
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show me your
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fight fight
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that's down the Stree that's number 10
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is where the prime minister is Downing
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Street that's like your version of the
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White House in America yeah
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dreary we're going to head over now next
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to the London Eye that I went on the
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other
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night to an attraction that's in here
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called the London dungeon
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the hood back on where is
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it my hands are
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now I'm pretty excited but to get out of
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this the elements get inside get
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indoors there it is the
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London
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dungeon
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oh there it is London dungeon punishable
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crimes here you could uh cutting down a
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fruit tree could get you and forging a
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birth certificate or stealing a pocket
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handkerchief that a very punishable very
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punishable effect all right so the
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entire exper atire experience they don't
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let you have phones or video or anything
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I was thinking maybe you could take
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photos they said no video but also no
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photos and the reason they do that is
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they don't want anybody accidentally
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taking a Flash and at first I was kind
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of thinking well I wonder what what's
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the big deal about taking photos but
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basically there's a lot of different
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scenes there probably about a dozen
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different scenes that you kind of go
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through you go through Fleet Street The
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Demon Barber of Fleet Street you go
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through different areas of White Chapel
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the Eide and all that there like 12
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different scenes probably about 30
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different scare actor a couple scare
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actors but about 25 to 30 actors that
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are playing the different roles like
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Sweeney Todd and the Bells Tavern and
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all that and there's so many different
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effect lighting effects where the lights
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go out and back on and they kind of move
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around and startle people that I can
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imagine if you were taking photos or you
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have video lighting it would ruin it
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completely so I definitely understand
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why they did it and it started off the
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first couple scenes I was thinking I
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don't know really how good this is going
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to be but it ended up being really
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awesome and I definitely recommend
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checking it out and you go through about
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a dozen different scenes of the of the
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story of all the you know the darker
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side of London so definitely check it
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out if you're ever in town at end kind
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of like spooky scary stuff through
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London or the Dark Side of London
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through the gift shop we ended up
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getting a couple photos here so even
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though they don't allow photos they do
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sell you a photo here we were both
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guilty what's the other what's the other
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photo we were Traders at the very end
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there was a ride that drops you in
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basically you're being put to the death
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they hang you
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nice back out into the elements now I'm
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going to go
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get some food somewhere oh these fers
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have a mess load of stickers on them wow
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that's some kind of sloshy Goo dripping
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down probably uh don't know what that is
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this place here the Westminster Kitchen
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Grill
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House trying to get a Sunday roast meal
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which I guess is like a a big
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thing I think they have
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it all right they did not have Sunday
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roast on their menu so looking elsewhere
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worst case could get some fish and
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chips again but I want to get something
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that is London esque and since it is a
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Sunday as I'm filming this the roast is
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a thing I've heard I think out of all
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the days I've been here so far this is
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definitely the most miserable
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weatherwise also it was interesting at
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the end of the London
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dungeon there was like a a ride like a
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drop ride almost like Hollywood Tower
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style but it made it seem as if you went
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through the you went to the judge and
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you were found
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guilty and the way they handled things
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back in the day they just swiftly took
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care of you and hung you up by your neck
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and dropped it that was what that was a
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simulation of which was kind of kind of
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interesting it's a lot shorter than the
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Hollywood Tower drop obviously like the
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rise of the resistance drop all right
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going to get out of the alets again fish
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and chips it is this will be my second
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Bastion of fish and chips that I've had
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while in London check out this place and
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see what they have to offer can't go on
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with a little fish and chips I don't eat
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really a lot of fish and chips so much
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but I definitely want to eat them as
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like a winin Rome moment I'm not in Rome
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I'm in London but yeah fish and chips I
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think the most times I've ever eat fish
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and chips is in the UK Pavilion at Epcot
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or watching the beetle cover band used
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to be called British Invasion but now I
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think it's called British revolution
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back in the day when I first got my
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annual pass in 2001 it was the British
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Invasion I would get fish and chips and
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watch them play their sets I saw that
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that group perform many many times so
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it's kind of cool now that I'm in the
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real UK and just a few days ago went to
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Abby Road love the beetles all right
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consume some fish and chips pretty good
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not going to take a London
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taxi going to head
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over and go to the tower
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bridge and go inside the tower bridge
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haven't been inside the tower bridge yet
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lot of leg room in
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here this
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so unusual not seeing someone driving on
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the the other
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side kind of glad I'm not driving around
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the city here I'd be very
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confused yeah this is
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weird left hand side of the
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road oh my gosh what's going on up
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here that would throw me off I was
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behind the wheel
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all right made it over I got to say
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taking the underground way faster than
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taking taxis it's just a a lot of
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one-way streets takes a while to get
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around didn't go that far but took a
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while at least I can say I did
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it and also there's seats facing the
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other way that you fold down so if you
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have a party of four in there you're
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facing each other and having a quite the
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convers station or staring at each other
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during the car ride which is a little
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different than American vehicle taxis
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heading up June
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1886 that was my memory serves correct 2
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years
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Castle Jack the river got to think for a
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minute with the her name
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was
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czy you probably wouldn't surprise me
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wouldn't surprise me was Victorian time
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you know
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oh here's where the site office was the
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1890s regular meetings took place
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between the Architects and Engineers to
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oversee the progress of the work lead
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architect John Wolf
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Barry is in the top hat
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discusses with site manager George
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Edward Wilson
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cruttwell and
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Andrew
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Bart interesting it says Top Hat John
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Wolf Barry but then it says Edward
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Wilson cutwell is in the bowler hat no
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one up there in that lineup has a top
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hat on just the bowler hat now I'm very
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confused on which one the heck John W
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Barry
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was it's a mystery photo of some unknown
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steel
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workers in 1886 and then
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1892 this guy's wearing a sweet suit
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right there on the side this is the
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bridge Master he's in charge of Tower
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Bridge he lifts the bridge for tall
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ships the ship has to be 9 M tall or
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more for the bridge to
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lift and evidently the opening ceremony
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for the bridge was
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1894 so few years after
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construction and there's some of the
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people that were
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there onlookers celebrating the event
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all right now that I have a
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local tell me how you pronounce this
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River it's the river Tims the river Tims
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Tims this is definitely a cool view up
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here the cityscape over there as well
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different section of the
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area nice little breeze going on out
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there oh
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nice I don't know if that's going to
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help TI toe
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I oh look at this
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look at
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good I think the slides
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over
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yeah look at
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of course if I drop drop it out I don't
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know how I'm going to get my camera
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back notice there's a mirror on top as
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well so you got the mirror that looks
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down so you got mirror up there and then
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you got looking down on the tower bridge
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right
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there directly up there there is a
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mirror looking down
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all right to get to the engine room you
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got to exit out of the tower go to the
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end of the bridge and then go down to
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the engine room it's also
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included with the chore self patted
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chore all right over into the engine
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room
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now this is Stan the
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stoker he shovels 20 tons of coal into
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the boilers every
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week boilers heat water to make powerful
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Steam e
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Eddie the engineer and olly the
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oiler they keep the engines working on
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Tower Bridge to LIF for the
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ships for
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walking through here is pretty neat how
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the rain is kind of slowed down we have
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the little wooden platforms here all wet
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you got The Shard
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there and looking the other way there's
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tower
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bridge I think I'm going to go up in The
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Shard but walking over there take a look
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at this old train train car elevated
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with some ants there's ants all over
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that train huge
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ants massive
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ants I
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this newly being
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constructed
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complex yep go to the top of the Shard
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so up at the very very top of The
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Shard two take two elevators one to the
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33rd floor and then one through the from
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the 33rd you get off you get on another
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one you go up to the 68th floor and then
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you can walk up to the
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72nd floor or take an elevator from
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there but the there's two observation
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decks 68th and
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702nd and I will say out of probably all
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the tall observation viewing skyscrapers
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I've been on this was the hardest really
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to see anything because it was like
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raining outside and there was no areas
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that you could look at without glass in
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front of you plus because it's night
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they had lights on in the the rooms you
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were in so you got the reflection
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bouncing off the window so it was very
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difficult to get know proper photos of
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the city but still was okay but I would
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recommend if I ever did it again I would
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do it without any sort of cloud
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formations or any rain or anything I
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think it would have been a little bit
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better you couldn't really see a lot out
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the windows but still was a need
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experience to be 72 floors high up
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looking over London and
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a little rain not a rainstorm but just a
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light
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rain it is interesting how sometimes you
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get even PL things that are this high or
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higher that do not have glass
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like in Vegas you can go
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on the top of the the tower there and
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there's like nothing you just look
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straight out over there's been a couple
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other ones there's no glass block in
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the blocking the angles either but I
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think if it wasn't raining it wouldn't
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have been as would have been a little
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more visible but did it top of The
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Shard accomplished some sort of
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formation here of a a
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body like the head is
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open as well as the Torso holding
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something else but you can go right
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inside of you doesn't say you don't go
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in it says do not climb go right in the
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middle of this
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thing look up actually you could look up
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if you wanted to you could look up at
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The
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Shard right there peeking out oh you
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know what they're looking at each other
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so you go down the side of the
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skyscraper check it out there's someone
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staring back the one I'm standing at
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it's like a pirate ship of some sort
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here very cool very cool look at this
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thing
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take a look over here there is a skate
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park underneath these establishments
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kind of like hidden underneath all this
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stuff good pretty close back to the
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London Eye it's pretty
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awesome I had no idea just walking along
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here I heard some skateboards notice the
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graffiti
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and that's going to do it for today from
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England GL the rain subsided a little
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bit it was definitely pretty miserable
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earlier still nice crisp and cool but no
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longer
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precipitating we call it a
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night get back to my hotel I'll see you
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in the next video the Vlog is over
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bonus footage I've also never seen
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midnight spelled this way