It’s taken me a few days to recuperate from the weekend but let me tell you London was like no city I have been before. I could spend hours trying to explain to you the details and post all 108 pictures from this weekend (yes I somehow managed to take 108 photos in a mere three days) but it still wouldn’t capture my weekend.
London was one of the three trips I signed up with through the school (Paris and Italy being the other two). We arrived in London around 9:30, three couch buses strong. After a long two and a half hour drive we were ready and anxious to hit the town. A group of about eight of us spent a lot of the night walking around town seeing what it had to offer. We found a club and after working our magic into not having pay cover (or as Laura would say we walked into liked VIP) we found ourselves a table in the back room and safe and drank and chatted for hours just getting to know each other. While at the club we set up a pub club for the following night ran by a few local guys (which will be explained late no worries for it was the best idea we came up with yet!) We called it a somewhat early night for we knew we had a fun filled few days head.
Friday began with Laura and I getting ourselves lost on the tub/underground. We ended up getting on the wrong train but luckily we were able to hop on the very next train and arrive at our tour of the tower of London only fifteen minutes late but still in time to catch up with our group. The tour of the tower of London relayed perfectly to what we are currently studying in our British Studies class, it was a neat experience to be able to see and visit sites that I have been reading about in a textbook. It was while on this tour I experience the real education benefits of studying abroad. While at the tour of London we were able to walk through different buildings, one in which held all the royal jewels including crowns of past Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses, as well as various rubies and diamonds. The second building we toured was the actual tower of London itself; which was full of armor and guns and anything needed for battled. Grandpa you would be in heaven.
After the tour of London Laura and I walked the whole day. We walked all over the pier at Westminster seeing street performers and parks. We had lunch in a little outdoor sandwich shop. Afterwards we went to the Tate Modern Museum as well as Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and St. Paul’s Cathedral. We attempted to shop but we were to exhausted from the days activities (Shocking I know but have no fear we have a separate girls shopping trip to London already in the making). After a much needed power nap we got ready for the night life. We had dinner at the local pub and watched soccer, let me tell you watching soccer at a pub in England just brings a whole new level enjoyment to the game. After that it was all about the pub crawl. On this crawl a group of fifteen or so paid ten pounds and was led to four different clubs and received a free drink at each. It was an amazing night that will go on the list of top nights here in Europe.
The next morning was an early one as well. Eight of us rose up early enough to catch the changing of the guards at Beckham Palace. Unfortunately it wasn’t early enough and we were among the hundreds and thousands of other people that turn out for the event. Thank goodness for the voom on my camera! We decided it’s something we’re going to have to attend again and go extra early so we can get a good seat. Afterwards we walked around town and hit up Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster abbey, and The London Eye. We then took the tube again over to Camden Park which was a very artsy town (and by artsy I mean body art of tattoos and piercings. It was also a place added for our shopping trip for the street barraging was amazing. By the end of the day we had a relaxed night. We went to a pizza restaurant and had pizza and wine and sat around and chatted for hours.
Sunday was another and final full day. As a school we took the buses to Hampton Court Palace in which Henry VII and William III lived. It was an amazing Palace was details that top the manor, as well as gardens that are like nothing I have ever seen before. The bus ride home although long was much needed for the nap time. My feet killed by the end and I was exhausted but I would do it all over again I have fallen in love with London.
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