Generator (No Facilities) London

I met a boy from Melbourne at the hostel and I told him I had been hoping to take night photos of London, so we went walking all over the city for a couple hours at like 1 am. I got some great photos!

I still had a couple days on my railpass for Scotland and England so I decided to use it to go visit Dover for a day from London. I just heard of Dover from word of mouth, I heard about the white cliffs and wanted to go see. I don't know how I even knew it had a castle...word of mouth too I guess. When I arrived I decided to head up to the castle and I only have Edinburgh Castle to compare it to but I have to say I liked this one so much more! Dover Castle was much less crowded and the rooms ...

Out of all the lame, uber-touristy things I've done, I'm pretty sure this one takes the cake. Not only did I go to this place but I posed with most of the wax figures as well. It was so much fun though!!!!!
This experience definitely would not have been as fun if someone else weren't there with me. I was there with Bernice, whom I met at the hostel. We switched cameras so she was my photographer and I was hers, it was much easier that way. We don't have any photos together though which is...

So yeah... they weren't lying when they said that it's COLD in London! Hahaha! Oh, and it's crazy that the sun doesn't rise until about 8am. I actually arrived at 6am (an amazing 20 minutes AHEAD of schedule!) I think it was the first (and probably only) time I've ever had a flight arrive early! So of course it was too dark and foggy for me to see anything when I flew into London, but that's ok, I'll be here long enough to see everything, I'm sure. I took an airport shuttle to the hostel sinc...

I'm in London! In keeping with my flight luck so far, my flight was delayed (as all my flights so far have been cancelled or delayed!) due to the crash that happened at Heathrow on Thursday last week (which I knew nothing about having not seen an English newspaper for several weeks!) However, it's really nice to be back in an English speaking country, although when I buy something in shops I still keep having a slight panic moment of 'how do I say thankyou in their language?!' before remember...

I went into this trip knowing we would face some adversity at some point...I'm just glad we got it out of the way in the beginning. London is actually fabulous, I love it, even though we've only been here 2 nights and a day. As I left this last, we were headed on our way to Dublin airport where we going to collect our bags that had finally made it from Philadelphia, and then hop on a Ryanair flight to London. Well we made it to London, but no bags. Yes, that's right, another day in my grey ca...

Theres nothing like a 36 hours worth of travelling, 1 1/2 hours sleep the night before, a headache caused by a screaming baby from Sydney Singapore and compounded by a screaming baby from Singapore to London, arriving in a foreign country only to catch the peak hour packed tube (London railway system) with oversized luggage which you have to haul up and down many flights of stairs at 8am to make you desperately crave a quiet corner to sleep. But alas, this was not the case when I arrived at t...

Back in london today, after a 15 hour bus ride, 1 /2 hour ferry ride, another 2 1/2 hour bus ride, 20 minute tube (london train system) rideI am home! Home sweet home....well for the next 3 nights anyway. On the ride home there was an all night orchestra of coughging, wheezing and sneezing. Needless to say that I have come down with something. Although it was inevitable, with the copious amounts of alcohol, lack of sleep, shared sleeping quarters and a day confined in airconditioning circulat...

Well, I've been up since 3am (local time), and made my way quite snappily from Heathrow to Russell Square to my accommodation - the Generator Hostel. First impressions of London? - It's really easy to get around - getting around Melbourne & Sydney would be more daunting to a new-comer - The lack of cars. Got out of Russell Square station to be confronted by nice streets with quite a few people around, but really only service trucks dotting the streets here and there. Managed to have a sho...

So, second full day arrives, and I've decided to change the order in which I go see things - I met a couple guys from Melbourne who decided that after yesterday's impressive work with guiding us around the Westminster end of town, that perhaps the New Europe "Old City' tour would be worth a burl - couldn't agree more, and since I knew that I'd be getting the same guide I couldn't go wrong. Anyway - Peter & Dave didn't make it in the end, but I had a great time getting around and seeing th...