I started to sing that line yesterday and then realised I woke up in Dublin the day before - the life of a traveller. We made it here, amd can I say, if you are ever flying out of Ireland and have a choice between Aer Lingus and Ryanair, choose Aer Lingus. They're a proper airline its so nice, but still cheap flights. We flew into Gatwick airport rather than Heathrow, which was a bit of a lack of forward thinking on my part because we saved around 5 euros on the flights, but ended up paying more than that to get from Gatwick to the centre of the city. It was a bit of a mission getting from Gatwick to the hostel, took around 2 hours. We caught a train into town, and then got on the underground out to the hostel, which is quite a way out of town. The underground station in town was Victoria, one of the big ones, and it got a bit confusing because they had some sort of emergency so we were got sent through another entrance and through a long loop to get round to our line, which was packed with people.
Yesterday I woke with a migraine, I think in large part due to the bad sleep the night before. The problem about an 18 bed dorm is that it can take a long time for the light to go off, and people can 'forget' that there are people sleeping. Also we're in bunk beds three high and so when one person moves, the whole thing shakes. Anyway I ended up going back to bed for an hour, which effectively killed the migraine. So eventually we managed to get out to actually see some of London. We started with the tower of London. Thank you Tina for telling me I had to go. With so many free things to do in London I might have skipped it, as it costs 20 pounds. However we went anyway, as I'd been told to, and we thought we may as well see it once at least, and that time could be now. We ended up spending three hours there. We ran into one of the Yeoman tours as we entered, so we joined it. We got to see the crown jewels, the ultimate in trinkety stuff. Amazing but also amazingly over the top. We also jumped into the army (or whatever the correct name is) museum to get out of the rain. It was a bit rainy, and very windy and coldd yesterday. We also went through the walls and tours, the torture museum, which was a bit dissapointing, and saw the royal armoury in the white tour.
After having a very english lunch, I had a steak and ale pie with mash and gravey, we headed off to see the parliament building and Buckingham palace to finish our day. The parliament building was particularly impressive, for me at least. No guards to pose for photos with outside Buckingham palace, but the flag was up so the Queen was home. Somewhere in that massive building.
So the final day today. We'll go sort out some visa thing for Sophie, see the British museum, and most importantly do some shopping. Then its time to pack and head off to heathrow for the night. I'm feeling a little sad about going home, which is crazy considering how much I've been looking forward to it recently and how anxious I've been to go home. I am really looking forward to getting home, and sleeping, and seeing people. However I'm getting sad about leaving Sophie, and I could spend so much longer in London, I'm seeing so little of it.
Anyway, in around 24 hours I'll be getting ready to board my flight!
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