During this visit
abroad, we’ve taken a few walking tours, all of which have been great! Okay, if I stuck to that, I’d be lying;
let’s try again. All the tours
we’ve taken having been informational, with a few peaks of interest,
nonetheless boring. What made them boring? I’d say the guides, who weren’t very enthusiastic. They talked with a
mellow tone, as if they were giving a presentation that they had no interest in. The tours were long. I guess you could expect that, because
you can’t bundle all of the British history into one hour, but two hours plus,
is a pretty long time to be on a tour.
Sometimes, they didn’t really have much relevance to what I was learning
in class, so I would sometimes be lost when they talked about specific people,
and especially when they talked about these unknown people for so long, it’s
like I zoned out! I had gotten
tired of tours, so starting this particular one, I had a pessimistic mindset. I wanted to lag behind without even giving
this guy a chance, in fact, I did lag behind.
Once we finally stopped at our first attraction, it was the least
expected, which instantly caught my attention. He stopped us at a corner, told us a bit about the art he was
about to show us, as we looked around dumbfounded because there was no art in
sight, then he finally point to the top of a street sign post where a small, handmade,
metal bird was sitting. He said
this object was made by an artist that we wouldn’t be able to find online; he’s
local. He makes objects like this,
and puts them on top of poles throughout the neighborhood. On this tour you will see lots of
street work by local artists, he informed. With that suspense, so early in the tour, we knew the rest
would be awesome, and it was!
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