LONDON
Day 1-4
04.07.2007 -17 °C
DAY ONE:
We arrived around 11am and managed to get through security and find our hostel very easily. We wandered quite aimlessly as we were both exhausted and needed to try and stay awake until a reasonable time. After a brief nap we ate dinner and wandered somemore... We came across the London Eye and made it on the very lsat pod of the night. It was quite the view. Our hostel was very nice but our roomates weren't overly friendly. They kept to themselves and we barely spoke more than a quick hello. Overall I was very impressed by my first hosteling experience.
DAY TWO:
Second day we wandered around Piccadilly Circus to buy cheap tickets to Wicked. From there we walked all the way to Tate Modern and Mike lucked out because there was an exhibit on Urban Cities. I wasn't as lucky as most of the art was very abstract and not my taste. After fish and chips at a pub and my first beer in Europe(which was more expensive than pop!!!), we went to see Wicked it was INCREDIBLE!!! I would defintely recommend it to anyone that enjoy's musical's (not poor Michael though).
DAY THREE:
We started the morning by switching hostels. We stayed in the Baden Powell house which are the people that founded scouting and guides. We lucked out and ended up with a 4 person suite instead of the 12 person one we were originally supposed to have. We spent the entire day walking around. We started with a tour of the Tower of London which wasn't exactly how I imagined it, I thought it would be gorier with true stories of beheadings and such. From there we saw Parliament, Buckingham, 10 Downing (prime ministers house, with a paparatzi), and Trafalger square.
DAY FOUR:
Started early this morning to catch our tour to Stonehenge, Bath and Salisbury. Overall it was a nice day nothing spectacular but stonehenge was cool. In my mind I thought I'd be closer to it but when they explained that people used to bring hammers when visiting so they could steal pieces of stone it kinda made sense. Bath was cool, Mike opted out of that one but I went on my own. It wsa gorgeous, I just which I could have soaked my aching feet. Now we're killing time before making our first adventurous night sleeping in the Stansted airport. Not really looking forward to it but we will be able to escape this crappy weather for Barcelona. We can relax tomorrow and have a beach day.
Overall London is really neat it is such a different culture and I love the tube which is shocking because I was kinda leery about using it to begin with. Its such a busy place, in constant motion. I couldn't imagine handi-capped people ever living here it would be nearly impossible.
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