This past weekend I was able to enjoy the beautiful city of London and I fell in love! There is something about the city that is just so wonderful, and not to mention super easy to navigate via Tube. This was a school sponsored trip which cost at least double what it could have on my own, but none the less a good first trip where I wasn't responsible for booking my transportation to the city bonus!!
Any ways.. We arrived via coach (3 hour drive) pretty late Thursday evening and checked into our hotel which I would like to mention is NOT the same as an american hotel.. but it was a bed to sleep in. Throughout the weekend I explored London with a few sisters that travel very similar to me (where ever the wind takes you style) I swear it's the best way! We would pull out the map and see if anything in particular sounded fun or interesting and then figure out which tube station was closest to that spot, other times we would just walk where ever and see what we stumbled upon. We ended up all over the city Westminster Abbey, London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Oxford Street, Covant Gardens, and many more places! For classes I had to see the Shakespeare play King Lear, and visit the Freud Museam as for the play it was wonderful but the Freud museum was not my favorite for many reasons but interesting in the least I suppose.
Now if you are ever going to London and someone says lets go on this pub crawl that only costs £11 Don't Go… Trust me!
While in the city I observed a few things
1. Everything closes early like 8pm on the weekdays even Starbucks!
2. Everyone is skinny! It is a very healthy city minus the massive amounts of smoking.
3. The tube is dead silent always
4. shopping is awesome
5. Come Saturday its so full of tourists you can barely walk down the street.
6. People may laugh a you but for the most part people are really nice and would love to help you find where ever you may need to go.
Very last on our way home early Sunday morning we stopped at Hampton Court Palace former home of King Henry VIII which was absolutely wonderful but quite chilly! We were able to walk in the home and around the beautiful grounds, but we just didn't have enough time to cover it all! We were even able to meet the King himself ;) Also went to an awesome pub!
Overall a wonderful weekend I could talk about it forever and look forward to going back hopefully soon!
As for other things going on in my life… I started watching Downton Abbey how appropriate right? I have been really wanting to watch it for a while but now that I'm here it is much easier considering our library has every season including the current available! It is really wonderful because the Highclere Castle is very similar to the manor I live in and also functioned quite similarly back in the day. I recommend it!
As for other things I work in the Library for my work study job (warmest building in the manor)!!! Speaking of temperature it has dropped quite a bit and is back around the normal temperature for this area and time of year, and because of that you may be wearing your winter jacket in a few classes, this isn't an easy place to keep warm!
This week is a "long" week, we have classes Monday - Friday to make up a day we miss later in the semester, and because of that my traveling will be fairly close by a few hours by train at most possibly Leeds but I am not for sure.
If anyone would like to send me letters or sweaters I can give you my address just let me know!
Ps.. I heard the video wouldn't work for everyone in my last post so here are a few pictures!
London at Night!
Cool Place to blog
Our Great Room with my favorite chandelier in the manor!
Until next time!
Thanks for reading my BLOODY BLOG!!!
All my love from across the pond,
Brooke
LOVE!!!! Nice description of London - except the Tube - not sure which ones you managed that were quiet! Must hear more about your thoughts on the Freud Museum. Is that the one in Hampstead - where he used to live? Or is there another one? I hear you about the cold - bloody lack of central heating. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt seemed to be quiet no matter how packed it was kinda funny! I have plenty of thoughts on the Freud museum all biased of course :) and yes it was at his house in Hampstead so weird.. and I tell ya I had to wear my huge winter coat to class yesterday haha
ReplyDeleteWhat I remember most about Freud's house was the "couch" and his collection of artifacts. Oh! and I love the picture of his neighbor - John Cleese - leaning out his window. . . I swear spent the first three month I lived there wearing at least four layers!
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