London!
Sorry it took so long to get London up! Flickr finally let me upload photos again :D
6/10/11 Day 8: Meeting an online correspondence of 7 years for the first time.
- Airport shuttles from the hostel at the asscrack of dawn
- Not rushing at the airport
- Apples I had purchased at the market the night before = fiber
- My last meal in Paris: croissant & mini coffee
- NOT getting lost on the way to our London hostel!
- Meeting One Armed Bandit at the Waterloo station, platform 10
- Not having to bury my face in a map and be in charge of the itinerary for the next few days
- Seeing London Eye, Parliament, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Tate Modern, and so much of London!
- “That’s art? I can put a f*cking stapler in that case and call it modern art!”
- The sky clearing up at the end of the day
- Free bangers & mash for dinner
- Reading Curious George at Tate Modern w/One Armed Bandit
- Checking in to a room with comforters, curtains around the bunks, and individual lamps
- LAUNDRYYYY.
6/11/11 Day 9: Just the girls in London
- Having more than 8 hours of sleep
- Breakfast included: croissants, black currant jam, and endless coffee
- “Mind the gap!”
- The best museum EVER: Natural History Museum
- Seeing Westminster Abby
- Walking all over London
- Dinner: sandwiches at Princess Diana fountain
- Looking at fun places around Soho
- London’s China town
- NO RAIN!!
6/12/11 Day 10: Last day in an English-speaking country for a while
- Filling up on croissants & coffee again
- Roomie saving me the last pocket of black currant jam :3
- Seeing One Armed Bandit again during our last day in London
- Visiting his uni, UCL, where Ghandi studied
- The Egyptian stuff @ British Museum
- A hot meatball wrap after walking in the rain
- Lezzie finding me the water-repellent jacket for the summer rain
- Da Vinci & Turner @ National Gallery
- Waking around and observing artifacts and art w/One Armed Bandit
- Steak & ale pie w/mash & peas for 3.50 pounds!
- Trafalgar Square & Leicester Square
- “Coco-ana” ice cream (coconut and banana) in a cute parlor
- One last hug at the underground station in Leicester - for the next few years
- Platform 9 3/4!!
- Last hot shower @ Hillspring Lodge
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