Photos from the Shakespeare (or really just general literary and historical) Walk

The monument to commemorate the Great Fire in 1666.
Detail of the monument
Weird little statue
View of the Tower Bridge from the new London Bridge
Southwark Cathedral, where Shakespeare would have attended (if he went to church)
Gardens of Southwark Cathedral
Southwark Cathedral was featured in Saturday's episode of the new Doctor Who programme
Sixteenth-century pub on the waterfront
Site of the Tabard Inn
The London Eye (no, I'm not going to ride it)
Gloucester Road tube station

Today I went on a walk with the fun professor through some of the lesser-known, but still entirely cool, parts of London. We saw the huge monument erected to commemorate the devastating fire of 1666; Southwark ( suthuk) Cathedral, where Shakespeare would have attended services while he was in London (assuming he did attend); and the site of the Tabard Inn, where Chaucer's characters gathered to tell the Canterbury Tales.

My favorite place was Borough Market, a completely untouristy market with fresh game like wild rabbit and venison, "Real Scottish Food", mozzarella di bufala, beautiful cheap bread that I can't eat, all kinds of sausages, fresh vegetables galore, etc.