Louis and I had another semi-successful conversation at breakfast this morning. I set off early for the National Gallery, only after a quick photo-op in front of the Trafalgar Square Lions. Once inside the National Gallery, I spent over three hours wandering among some of the world's best paintings. I was brought to tears twice, first by DaVinci then by Titian. After the exhausting museum trip I was able to rest my feet by catching a bus to the other sid...

Reminder to self: when arriving at tube station do not rush onto the first available train as it may be the wrong one. I got onto the wrong train today, twice. Luckily I realized the mistake and was able to backtrack, twice. Jet lag caused me to wake up at an ungodly hour this morning, so I took advantage of my restlessness and went for a walk in St. James Park. It was so peaceful to look out over the city as it was just waking up. The park was surpris...

When my plane arrived at Heathrow this morning I was frozen to my seat, too afraid to move. I had to give myself a mini-pep talk in order to gather up enough courage to get off the plane. It was a good thing I was a bit jet lagged because I don't know how I managed to make it through the day if I'd had complete control over my faculties. I might have had a nervous breakdown in the middle of Trafalgar Square. The good news is... I love London! I had tried...

This all began over a year ago on a long drive home from school. My friend Hannah and I were having one of those ?deep? conversations about life and the meaning of it all. Somewhere in the conversation the topic of travel came up and we both talked about how much we wanted to travel and about how we would love to go to Europe. We sat there dreaming for awhile then the thought came to me, ?why don?t we go?? Why spend you life dreaming about what you want to do, wh...