LAST STOP and good news the weather was BEAUTIFUL while we were here too. It never rained on us once.
Day 1. We were so lost after the airport and trying to find our hostel that there wasn’t much time to go into the city and do any sight-seeing. So, we went and picked up a couple of frozen pizzas, ate dinner, wrote in our journals, watched a movie and crashed.
[A view of the city from our Hostel. You can see the London Eye on the left. ]Day 2. We woke up early so that we could go pick up my friend Ellen from the train station. She also studied abroad but she was in England and finish with her school the day before so she toured London [again] with us and came to Greece with us. Anyways, after we picked her up we took her back to the hostel so she could put her things in there and then we were off to the city to sight see. Our first stop was Parliament and Big Ben. I know we’ve all seen pictures of this famous clock but it is absolutely HUGE!
Right across the road was the London Eye. [above] It's basically a huge ferris wheele and you can take a ride but we didn't.
And of course we had to take our picture in a phone booth!Then we traveled to Buckingham Palace [the Flag was flying so the Queen was home]. Here there was also beautiful flowers and landscaping.
[all of us in front of the palace]
[the palace]
[Ellen and I in front of the beautiful flowers]Then we headed to ‘Theater city’, a neighborhood of London, to purchase tickets to a show. We saw Chicago. The actors were very good and the singing was amazing. We got out of the show around 10:30 so we headed back to our room to get some serious sleep, after a PB & J which was amazing. [In Greece they don’t really have peanut butter and if they do its really expensive so Ellen brought us some because food was cheaper where she was.]
Day 3. The weather was beautiful again so we decided to grab some food from the grocery store and have another picnic, in Hyde Park this time. So we laid around in the sun and had lunch.
Then we headed to Piccadilly Circus, which is like a version of Time Square in New York,
and then we went to the National Gallery to look at some beautiful pieces of art. Here there were also many paintings by artists that I’ve studied in my art class but unfortunately we couldn’t take pictures in this museum. We headed over to Abbey Road to see the studio and take the classic Beatles picture...
...and sign the wall infront of the Studio.
Then we found a little pub that we could get food [fish and chips for a few of us and burgers for the rest =) ].
We wanted to see Big Ben and the London Eye at night. So...
Day 4. We spent Saturday hitting up some of the major markets in London, Camden and Portabella markets. We ate some really good Fajitas at the Camden market and found some touristy things.
Then we went to Harrods which is a huge shopping mall. There are many designer names in here so needless to say we didn’t buy anything but Ellen took us to see the food halls. They were really cool. You could buy foods that were native to places from all over the world [they even had some Greek food], and they had a candy room and a room that had different places to eat. It was cool to go in. We had made plans to meet up with some girls we knew so we had to get going. We headed back to the National Gallery to meet up with Tessa and Lucy. Ellen and I went to High school with both of these girls and Lucy goes to college with all of us. So we met up with them and headed to another Pub to grab a bite to eat and catch up on life. Tessa has been in Ireland for the entire year, and it was neat to hear of the things that she’s been doing with her life. Lucy is studying in England this semester and she just got back from some traveling too so they both had a lot of stories and so did we. It was a great dinner. After this we had to get our bags and head to the airport before the trains closed because our flight left early the next morning. We ended up sleeping in the airport since our flight left so early, but it was ok.
All in all spring break was a BLAST!
2 weeks
5 countries
7 airplane rides
10 buses
5 different metro systems [oh man!]
Miles of walking around Europe
An experience of a LIFE TIME!
I’m so grateful. Thank you for all of your support and help it has meant SO much to me. I will see you in 6 weeks!
Love, Sarah
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