We woke up at around 7:30 to get ready, eat some breakfast and start our 9 o’clock tour of London. We had a bus tour but we stopped at Buckingham Palace and walked to a few places. From there we drove around London some more and they dropped us off at a square and let us explore ourselves. On the bus tour we saw a ton of places, Hyde Park which has some cool statues. We stopped at Buckingham Palace and took pictures there, which was beautiful. It was actually very cool to see the Palace and take pictures there. From there we walked the processional route for the wedding. From there we saw some more castles, statue of Queen Anne, castle of King Henry V, and finally we stopped at Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. Westminster Abbey is so pretty and Big Ben is pretty cool too. We took pictures, went to a coffee shop and got back on the bus. After that we saw the London Bridge and a bunch of other random sites. After they dropped us off we ate at Sorda for Italian food and ate upstairs where there was a little kids party, we were all going insane and wanted to get away from the kids. I went out and explored London after we had lunch with Julia, Allie, Jen, Shelby, and Bre. We went to Kings Cross to try to see HP Platform 9 ¾ which is apparently on platform 1 in Kings Cross Station, but it had been vandalized and was closed off for a while. From there we took the tube back to Liecester and went to the National Gallery. The National Gallery was soo cool. I saw Leonardo DaVinci’s The Last Supper and it was awesome!! I saw some Turner paintings, which I don’t really know but Jen does, so I looked at them. I saw some pretty awesome Van Gogh paintings, Water Lillies, and some of his others. Then I saw some Money. They had a bunch of other artists in there that I really wanted to see, like Rembrant, Michelangelo, Vermeer, and Velázquez. But we didn’t have enough time and the people we were with were pretty tired and didn’t really care. From there we took the tube back to our hotel, by the way, a tube ticket is ridiculously expensive, about 4.5 lbs per ticket, but a day pass is only 7lbs, so we got the day pass and took the tube all over London. But I finally made it back to the hotel.
Today was also a good day, I’m very happy with the friends that I’ve made, which came pretty quickly. I guess when you’re in a different country you bond with people pretty quickly, given that you know no one and are forced to blend in and make friends. I met my roommate today and she’s nice, we’ll see how it goes. I’m slightly terrified though of Granada and my placement exam, but I’m trying not to think about that. Whatever happens, happens and will work itself out. Oh, we have to wake up at 3.a.m to get to the airport. Are you kidding me!? So tonight I’m just going to go out to get dinner and then come back and crash and go to sleep.
The hotel we stayed at in London
Me at Buckingham Palace
Me at Westminster Abbey
Another view of Westminster Abbey
Me with Big Ben
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