London Greenery and Jack the Ripper

Yesterday Grant, Bea and Ji came to Haydens place to have some elaborate sandwiches for lunch. Yum. We then went for a wander along the road to a park so that Hayden could prove that there was some grass in London. I was stoked to find Rowan there too:

I felt like the worlds biggest cliche tourist taking the photo as there were about half a dozen of them jumping around. Kinda like people taking photos of sheep in New Zealand but it was worth it. As Grant said "of all the animals that they have introduced into NZ, that have torn our native animals to pieces, why didn't they introduce squirrels?". Squirrels are awesome.

Grant, Bea and I then went to the Jack the Ripper walking tour which was pretty cool. We connected through Baker street, one of the oldest subway stations in London. I think the tube system is absolutely incredible so I had to get at least one photo of it:

The walking tour was led by Donald Rumbelow (some big shot historian with multiple books abour Jack the Ripper) around most of the sites of his victims were killed and gave a lot of back story about the murders. He was a pretty brutal fella. Apparently now they have a list of about 200 suspects including all sorts or conspiracy stories about Royalty and such. Most of the evidence was destroyed by idiot policemen due to some issue between London city police and Metropolitan police. As an aside, there are two police forces in London as there are two city districts in London, each with their own governance, mayor and such. One is inside "the square mile" in the heart of London and the other is the rest of the city. How stupid!