Astor Quest London

Hello! Just a quick post to say I'm here in the mighty city of London. After an uneventful eight hour flight from Cincinatti, I arrived in London Gatwick airport around 9:30am London time/4:30am US east coast time. Needless to say, I'm pretty sleep deprived at this point but I was conscious enough to book a bus ticket from the airport to the city and then navigate the London Underground (their metro/subway system) to my hostel. They weren't open for check-in yet, but I dumped my giant and ver...

Welcome back, loyal travelogue groupies. I apologize for keeping you in suspense for so long, but computer time has been difficult to come by lately. Today, though, we all get caught up. I'm going to back date my entries as well so you all can keep track of the time line as well, if you wish. Here we go again! Arriving in London last night brought me to the Astor Quest hostel in Bayswater. As it turns out the hostel sucks but I really enjoyed the location as it was right next to Hyde Park and...

Hey all! I'm just beginning my second day in London! I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, probably due to a sleep quota of about 4 hours in 3 days... but I still had an awesome day :). I arrived at about 7 AM to London Heathrow, jumped on the Tube and headed to my hostel. Unfortunately, I got lost on the Tube for a while, then misread the directions to my hostel. I ended up at the Astor Quest hostel instead of the Astor Kensington, but they had room so I just asked her to chang...

The adventure continues.... The last couple days have been hardcore sight-seeing with me, myself and I. Like I said on Wednesday, I was off to Wimbledon for the day to see as much tennis as I could (Warning: Tennis Geek Lingo Ahead). The day started off pretty slow; I arrived and bought a grounds pass while it was raining a little so the matches didn't start for about an hour. I watched the first set of Federer-Ancic quarterfinal match on Henman Hill (or Murray's Mound these days) before it s...

So technically I have already been to Montpellier. I've been there since 20 Jan living with the host family. However, I spent last night at the Astor Quest Hostel in London in order to get my visa this morning. I slept terribly and kept having alternating dreams about getting or not getting the student visa (which I need to begin classes Monday). But this morning I got up and felt confident about it. I had a huge stack of papers, assembled best I could, proving that I was in fact Stephanie Mu...