Spent quite an eventful day in London. I landed at 6:20 London-time yesterday morning (meaning it was about 1:20 back home, meaning CRAZY jetlag). Thankfully for most of the day my excitement outweighed my tiredness, and I was able to enjoy myself (guzzling the coffee served with breakfast on the plane helped,too). By about 3:30 in Westminster Abbey, I started having to drag myself along and pinch myself to keep going. I checked into my hostel around 5:30 and met a girl from Chicago, so we went out to dinn
er together and hung out for the rest of the night together in the hostel, so we were able to keep each other awake until about 11:00 for the sake of syncing ourselves with UK time.London is beautiful, but annoyingly touristy (if that can be a word). It felt just like New York City, only everyone had British accents. I met far more travelers than I did Brits. So far all the people I've met in my hostel have been Australians or French, except for one feisty Irishman who went on a drunken rant last night about "those (expletive deleted) Protestants."
Besides aching feet and knees from excessive walking/luggage carrying, it was a really good day. I saw (didn't necessarily tour) Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, The Globe, Tower of London, London Bride, London Eye, and of course, my favorite.....Paddington Station. If you don't know why this is exciting, I suggest you go back and read a certain children's book about a very loveable bear!
I'm checking out of my hostel in five minutes, headed back on the Tube to Heathrow....off to Prague! Hopefully more pictures to come....
