Week 3: London! -- 2/5 to 2/7/16

So my friend Dave and I headed to London this weekend, and it was amazing! Wow we packed as much in as possible in our short 48 hours of being there. We flew in Sunday morning and found our air b&b (which was outside of the city, so we got to know the "tube" quite well in our two days), and then met up with my friends Hayley and Kelly!

We packed in everything from Big Ben, the London eye, riding a double decker bus, getting some hot cider at a market, eating fish and chips, seeing a hilarious street magic comedy performance, and then grabbing a beer at a pub! All in one day!

I think we ended up walking around like 12 or 13 miles on Friday, it goes to say I slept well that night.

Oh, also something very interesting happened when I went to buy a tea at a Pret a Manager. I handed a 5 pound note to the cashier, and she looks at me, looks at the note, holds it up to the light, and then asks her manager "what's this?" As for me, I'm standing there thinking the pounds my dad had given me were for some reason counterfeit and I was headed right for prison in literally the first hour of being in England (a little dramatic I know, but still). Anyway, it ended up being just an old note and I needed to go exchange it at the Bank of England, so I had to find the bank of England without wifi google maps and not knowing where I was. We made it though eventually.

Anyway that night we got some fish and chips, saw a hilarious street performer doing a comedy magic performance which was great, and then we headed to a pub to grab a drink. After that Dave and I made our trek home to the "Isle of Dogs" so we had to take the underground and changeover at a couple different stops until we made it to the DLR and then take that to a station and walk 15 minutes to the house we were staying at. It was fun!

The next day we made our way over to Greenwich to see the Prime Meridian, headed to a pub to watch the Manchester City - Leicester City game, and the headed to see Buckingham Palace and another market! It was another busy, tiring, but surreal day in London!

Here are some pictures from the trip!

From left: Kelly, Hayley, Me, and Dave with Big Ben!

                                        

                                        

A bunch of Big Ben pictures :D

  

Hayley really liked this trash can so I am obliged to include it on my blog.

For those Harry Potter fans out there this is the bridge that (in the movie) Voldemort and the death eaters twist and destroy. Oh also that's Kelly and Hayley posing with their tea. Pretty cool right? 

Me and Saint Paul's Cathedral 

We also of course rode on the top of a double decker bus, it was pretty awesome. 

This is a cool modern building, nothing totally special but it looked cool! 

Dave and I with the Tower Bridge

Here is a view of London from the Royal Greenwich Observatory 

This is The Shepard 24-hour Gate Clock

The simple yet majestic Prime Meridian, I took the time to appreciate being in both hemispheres at once too :P

Good ol' Winnie Churchill 

For those Parks and Rec fans, this is where Andy and Lord Covington fly mini helicopters, also pretty cool!

Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria statue

Some pictures of the group on top of Primrose Hill! This is the view of London from the other side (in the morning we were in Greenwich which is on the opposite side of the city).

                            

One of many pictures of me heading to Hogwarts in King's Cross

I'm already planning my next trip back to England! 

Until next time!