Thursday, April 28, 2011

THERE CAN ONLY BE TTTTTWWWWOOOOOOOOOO (part ?)

I had a (read: a few) Budweiser the other day. It tasted American. It also says and I quote, "We know of no brand produced by any other brewer which costs so much to brew and age." Umm what? That's cool Budweiser... That's a strong selling point. I'm sure your investors love having less of a profit margin since you cost about exactly the same as everything else.

BACK TO THE ACTION

Since we last left off Jack Bau... I mean Luke and that other girl... they had just arrived at a creepy airport in East London. Border control decided we weren't Portuguese terrorists, so they let us back in. From there we bought some tickets back into Tottenham Hale (not nearly as cool a stop as Fulham Broadway) and then to King's Cross. We had a great dinner at Nando's. After this point, the situation quickly deteriorated...

-We had no map or idea of where our hostel was.
-It started to rain (surprise).
-Only I brought my phone for communication purposes. The number of contacts I have on my still in Spanish phone: 0

I remembered glancing at google maps once before we left so I would know which tube stop was the closest.
Sweet baby Jesus combined with a normally horrible memory led us to the correct hostel in about 15 minutes. I think Merrie was mad at me. I can't imagine why.

Once reunited with our Leeds buds we took a nice stroll (since it had, of course, cleared up by this point) before we tucked into our super weird cubicle style bunk beds.

The next day's visits included:

-British Museum (We saw the Rosetta stone and dozens of mummies and coffins among an untold amount of history)

-Westminster Abbey (It was highway robbery to get in, but we saw a ton of dead people)

-Buckingham Palace and some of the gardens (they were setting up for the London Marathon while we were there)

-The outside of the HMS Belfast, Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience, the natural history and science museums, and the Tate Modern. (This was mostly related to money and time, except the Tate, that just would have been boring.)

-Millennium Bridge (something happened to it in the Harry Potter movies. I don't really care to know.)

-Chipotle (no, it was not as good.)

-Mr. Wu's (This title is actually a misnomer. I don't think any of us are really sure what it is called. It just is. Regardless, it has the cheapest Chinese buffet in London ever. You can't beat £6.50.)

-The laundry room at the hostel (Hallelujah.)





As far as the next day is concerned, we used one of our Brit rail passes and headed on out to Salisbury. It was honestly a great town. We visited the cathedral and, of course, Stonehenge. It was a little bit rainier and colder than the day before, but we got by. We intended to visit Bath, but we just ran out of time. We used our priceless passes to hitch a train back to King's Cross St. Pancras and headed north to Leeds.

I was really excited

2 comments:

  1. Definitely go to Bath, it's beautiful. Has the Royal Wedding fever reached Leeds? What does everyone think of it?

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  2. Thanks for the advice! We've got a couple day rail passes left so we're going to try and hit it for sure. Everyone that we've met here is rather anti royalist, but it seems no one could resist watching the ceremony :-)

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