Today we got up at around 7, got ready and had breakfast. We were he last ones home in our room last night, but he first ones up! We got passes for a hop on hop off bus and toured London all morning. Our tour guide has suggested we go to Greenwich as a over boat cruise was also included in our bus. So we hopped on a boat went under the London bridge and then cruised down the river Thames. Once arriving in Greenwich we realized we knew nothing about it and didn't ...

We got into London around 12:15 local time. Hoped onto the tube and started on our adventure! Of course since we were in London it had to be pouring rain, there was even a hail storm! After about a half hour on the tube we arrived at Bloomsbury, he neighborhood our hostel, Astro quest, was located. We checked in hungry as ever as we had not eaten real food since yesterday at lunch. We are staying in a coed hostel with 6 people in our room, a couple, 2 girls from ...

Packing! I have been dreading this one task pretty much since this trip became a reality. I really hate packing... Today I spent pretty much the entire day trying to figure out the best way to go about packing what I will need for a trip of a lifetime, and let me tell you it's not easy to predict what will be needed in the next 50ays, even if I do have an itinerary. Because we are staying in hostels and doing both the UK (where it will no doubt rain) and southe...

20 days!!! Obviously if your reading this you know i'm going on a trip this summer..but did you know I'm leaving in just 20 short days! I did not realize how fast the first half of my summer was going to fly by and how quickly this trip would sneak up on me. While I'm surprised on how soon I'm leaving, we have been planning and talking about this trip for over a year now! Flights are booked, accommodations are set and my backpack is bought! Now I just have the ...

If you ready post from yesterday then you can probably figure out how today went for me. Upon discovering that my 2 middle toes were black and blue and assessing how late we were out last night we decided to sleep in today. It was a nice break from the go go go that we have been experiencing and a necessary decisions considering our previous night. Once we got up we went ona waking tour of the city that was quite informative. We reminiced about the night and to...