London - Days 1-3
London was amazing, so much history and so little time. The buildings and architecture were stunning, the venues and structures were super cool to see. Tower of London was awe inspiring and Buckingham palace was a once in a lifetime opportunity to get to visit, seeing as it's only open 5 weeks of the year (we got lucky). I feel like the culture and way of life was fairly similar to home, and by home I mean the big cities of the US (minus accents) but it does have a few minor changes in they way they do things. Picture New York city traffic, condensed down to INSANELY narrow streets and double decker busses in a hurry to get from point A to point B. Another funny change (perspectively) was the fact that they use Mayo like I use ranch (if you know me, you know thats a lot). Their underground transport services were awesome and fairly easy to navigate, I just got comfortable using them today, still haven't figured out the bus lines.
With all that being said i don't truly feel the urge to come back here. The people aren't very friendly (servers, taxi and bus drivers... etc.) oh and if I hear kayla say something is worth so many "peso's" one more time i might step in front of a tram... haha. It was amazing to visit but i don't think i'd come back, i've seen all that London has to offer but maybe the outer parts of the UK would be nice. The picture's below are of a hostel kayla and I stayed at last night...
we paid the equivalent of $80 for one night in this room... yes this is it, i was standing in nearly the doorway...
This is kayla in the bathroom/shower... yes bathroom SLASH shower... it's all a tiled off area and you could use the toilet while taking a shower... too weird...
All that being said, London was insanely over priced from the food, to the places we went and the places we stayed... but it was worth it, just this once.
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