Entry 1 of a trip titled: Colby's Eurotrip 2008

Hey guys, This travelogue is from my three-month backpacking trip across Europe. Enjoy!

We've made it. Yesterday we got on our NorthWest plane at 5:30 heading to DC. I got to see Comerica Park the size of my fingernail. That was the last bit of Detroit I'll see for a while. We got to DC with no problems, the flight is only about an hour long. We waited our endless 3 hours for the connecting flight to London Heathrow. When they star...

First day in London was a mixed feeling for me. I was not very impressed by the Heathrow immigration service and efficiency. I was stuck in the queue for more than an hour. I got fed up with incessant questioning till I lash out to the poor officer. " Look, I'm a former immigration officer back home and I can play with you till the cows come hom...

So I'm back to where I was one year ago, back in this amazing, busy city. I'll be the first to admit this trip was a completely spontaneous thing. I had every intention of returning SOMEDAY but I didn't think that day was going to be so soon. Not until I was looking up airfares one day out of shear boredom and my roommate walked in. One look at ...

We got a little bit of a late start for the day, slept in to recover from Paris. After we finally got collected and on our way, we headed off to Buckingham Palace. I wanted to make sure that I got my friends to all the major sites. We didn't see the changing guard since it was an off day but we walked through the surrounding parks and started ou...

Final day in London, if only we could stay another week. We started by grabbing some coffee and pastries at Costa coffee across the street and then started in on seeing the sites. First off Tower of London...yet again for me. I gave them a quick tour with everything I can remember learning the first 2 times that I had gone there. We followed the...

Arrived at Gatwick safely, took time to find where I was going. Got a 3-day all zone pass to the Tube. Randomly sat next to a girl on the train from Gatwick to Victoria station that just completed her first year at NYU and is doing a month long Shakespeare course at the Globe. Dropped stuff off at St. Christopher's. Spent day meandering around C...

met Kevin in the morning at Victoria station. Dropped bags off at Hostel, went back to Victoria. Saw the Westminster Cathedral and the Westminster Abbey. Started raining as we jumped into the Cathedral, then stopped as we walked out. These places had better displays of art than the National Gallery in my opinion. Walked up to Waterloo Bridge, at...

Well I arrived and despite a few minor setbacks, I am having a blast. The flight was great and it was so easy to get into London. My first few nights were spent in Sheppards Bush at St. Christophers Inn with a couple of crazy Aussies, who offered me a warm welcome. So after a few nights with them, I decided to move on and head over to Streatham ...