Well it finally arrived, Europe 2007 wohooo!! I guess I’ll start from the top. We headed to the airport Friday evening, no real glitches in that. While waiting for our plane Billy and I played cards, bought alcohol, bought coke, mixed that rum and coke in the bathrooms in the airport and then when we boarded our plane and were safely in the air, we drank those rum and cokes to kick off the Europe trip properly! And to be honest, it was pretty much necessary as we needed them to make the in-flight movie, Wild Hogs, bearable. We were hoping to be able to pass out after and get some shut eye to be refreshed for our day in the UK but alas, sleep evaded us both. No other real complaints about the flight, we sat beside a pretty cool guy and the seats weren’t horribly cramped.
Anyways, we flew into London, and went through immigration and such, slightly hungover and with lack of sleep, but for the most part eventless, which is what you usually want. Then we made our way to the hostel from Gatwick airport (about 50 minute train ride) with only getting lost a little bit. Once we checked in and dropped our luggage off we hit the streets of London baby yeahhhhhh!!!
We decided to just freestyle it and walk everywhere. We hit up Trafalgar Square, Oxford and Picadilly Circus, the Soho and Covent Garden districts, and a bunch of other places. There are such cool little pedestrian only shopping areas that are kind of hidden away just by some random sidewalk leading away from the main roads. We didn’t shop, because manly men don’t shop, but I imagine people who do such things would enjoy it.
We got some grub at some place called Garfunkel, it was 6.95pounds for all you can eat salad bar that had eggs, and some meat and such things so that was alright. Then we headed to Buckingham Palace, which is some crazy big building and quite pretty.
I think my most favourite thing in all of London though are the parks. Now, we have parks in toronto, but these things are HUGE. Like Hyde Park is probably near 2km long by a km wide, and it’s in the middle of the city! and there’s more of them in the city too! We ended up taking a small nap in Hyde Park actually. So it brought our total amount of sleep to about 30 mins from Friday to Saturday lol…but we had amazing weather, some random guy playing guitar near us to serenade us and some soft grass to lie in so we probably stayed in for about an hour and half. Then we headed back to the hostel.
Ok out of minutes on my card, so I’ll update about the evening once we get to Dublin and settle in!
Final thoughts: London is amazing, beautiful city, caters to pedestrians, puts Toronto and Montreal to shame =)
And now we’re off to Dublin! WOHOO!!