Monday, January 24, 2011

Loving London- the Last Few Days

Note: read this blog BACKWARDS! Start with Friday
Sunday  
Today started out early, with a walk in Hyde park across the street from our hostel. It was a good morning, I actually got up earlier than I had planned and sorted out some stuff in my bag- it is so heavy. 30 lbs. And I know that may not sound like alot but Its kinda heavy for me, but i try to look on the bright side- I get a little workout while I'm at it. 
Anyways, back to my story. The park was beautiful, chilly, foggy, and perfect for a Sunday morning walk. Greeting people along the way, we made our way to the peter pan statue, a treasure casey has been dying to see. And it was great.  Then we took a walk back to the street our hostel is on and got some coffee and croissants for only £1.50! It was tasty. Then we made our way to Oxford St. (or Oxford circus) with shopping in mind. 
Now let me tell you about this street- it's a shopaholics dream, a husband's nightmare, and our morning enjoyment. There are a million stores in this area ranging from h&m, Zara, Nike, Apple store, EVERYTHING you can imagine- there's big streets, small alleys, classy pubs, starbucks (of course) and everything in between. We got some coffee and waited for the stores to open, here they don't open till 11 or 12 on Sundays. We did some window shopping and found some GOOD deals. We left poor Matt at starbucks while we went on our adventure, And he was super cool about it. 
Then we made our way to victoria station (the big downtown train/subway/bus station) only to find out that we had to go back to the station we came from because the line we wanted was closed...I guess that happens alot here and this weekend was a mess for some lines. But anyways, a few subways later we came to paddington station where we bought tickets to Hereford, our next stop, whose train we are on as we speak.   

Saturday
We left about 10 am from matt's tiny place and eared toward the station only to find out that the subway was down...so off to the bus station we go and get to ride through the east India district Whig was very interesting, i picked up a cupcake from a local bakery (carrot cake) and ate it. That was for Kristen by the way, she challenged me to eat a cupcake in every county I go to and I gladly accepted:). 
Afterwards we headed toward our new hostel and ate at an all you can eat pasta-pizza-salad place then Off we went to the Sherlock Holmes museum! Then we took a Long walk to Abbey road and walked where the Beatles walked! On our way back we stopped at a pub for a Guiness and some shandys- an English drink mixed with beer and Ginger ale (or lemonade). Matt says it's lemonade but I swear it's gingerale haha. We met some Englishman and debated about music, politics, and differences in culture and then we headed off to bed.
 
Friday
Today was the best day ever! Met up with casey's friend matt and did some sightseeing. Started out with walking along the Thames river, then stopping by wesminster abbey- which was absolutely gorgeous! We were able to go into this other smaller church next to it- st. Mary's where we didnb have to pay to get in. I was able to sneak some video if the inside of the church becuase no cameras were allowed. :/ we had lunch that day At another nicholsons, the same type of restaurant we ate at the day before- I think it's loike a mcmenamins because they are all called nicholsons bu different pubs have different names but the same food. We did some more sightseeing that day- going by the London tower and across the bridge, seeing and standing on Shakespeare's stage! Which was awesome- the dors were open and no one was inthere so we took out pics and video and ran out!  The day ended with us riding buses and trains back to our hostel then to east London university, where we stars that night.

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