Hi All!

Wow, a lot has happened since I last wrote on this blog! I will try to cover all ground but it may be hard to do cause a lot has happened and I don’t have a whole lot of the internet. Anway, so basically right before I left London for Dublin, Ireland I went out with this German guy to picadilly circus to some of the night spots. We just kind of walked around and went into a few places until like 3am or so. Good times… just wanted to check out the nightlife a little in London. Felix (the German guy) was very friendly and when I go to Germany he said call me up! I have been impressed with how well the Germans seem to speak english. They have also been some of the friendliest people I have met… Good ole’ Germans.

So I woke up in the morning at like 7ish to get to the airport – and yes, it was very brutal on only 3 hours of sleep. Walking half dead, half asleep, I went in to the train station and it looked like there was a detour to take because of construction. In the process of trying to find out where to go – so that i didnt miss my flight – I ran into this Japanese guy from Tokyo – His name was Takayuki. Anyway, he was lost and trying to find his way to the airport as well. We ended up having to take some random bus to a different train station and just traveled together talking the entire way to the airport. Takayuki was awesome – even in the short time I had met him. He was 23, a student of finance, and seriously one of the nicest, most geniune and polite people I ever met – and that seems to be my impression of the Japanese people in general – very nice and hospitable – almost like they will go way out of their way to make you feel comfortable at all costs. I’m telling you, they are very civil and decent people – I need to visit Japan! Anyway, so during our journeying and talking for a while we decided that if either of us visited each others hometown, that we would meet up and take each other around the city. He said that he would take me all over Tokyo to get Sushi cause I said how much I liked it! As we separated, I was off to catch my plane in the airport!

And oh the fun had just begun…

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I’m back again to try and post about my day at Stonehenge and the Roman Baths.

The day started out early again as I had to meet the tour bus at around 8am about two subway stops from my hostel. I decided to just take a tour out to Stonehenge because it seemed to be a lot easier, about the same price, and I could go to the city of Bath – which I originally did not intend to do. There was about 15 other people on the tour with me. I met a few people and somehow got talking with this older canadian lady for a while who just could not stop raving about BYU (good to know she thought it was a great school not being from the states).

Anyway, so we drove for about 2 hours or so from London to get to our first stop – Stonehenge. At first glance, it was amazing to see in the distance. You always hear about the place and see it on pictures, but never really think you would ever be there. We headed out of the bus and began to walk around and listen to an audio recording about the history of the mysterious stones. Unfortunetly, there was a rope around the stones which didn’t permit you to walk right up to the stones and touch them, etc. This was the only bummer of the tour – apparently, you need to setup ahead of time to walk right up to the stones and special permission to do so – which I didn’t know.

As I was walking around marveling at the strangeness and beauty of the stones, I met some dude from the states who recommended all kinds of places to go around Europe. He then graciously snapped my picture as I hopped over the rope, quickly ran towards the middle of the stones, got the pic, and ran back so that I wouldn’t be shot by the military tank that was driving by – apparently it is common for tanks to drive around the area – for the British military training…

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Hi Everyone!

I finally made it to London… YEA! So far everything has worked out great. I left Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, March 3 at 7:20am for London. After a brutal flight overnight, I arrived to London Heathrow airport at around 6:30am on March 4 – Today. Customs was easy and I found my bag right away… so all worked out with in that regard.

I managed to find my way to the hostel that I was staying at – YHA London Central. I had to take the train and walk a little bit this morning, but I eventually found my way! When I got to the hostel it was too early in the morning for me to check in and thus – get a room – so I relaxed for a few minutes and decided not to waste anytime. I hurried and locked my bag in the baggage room and was on my way.

First, I oriented myself and decided to get some traditional english breakfast – and oh how classic it was . I went to this little cafe called Cafe Meze, which was right by the “Tube” station. I got the Set: 1 – which came with the following – a fried egg (fairly raw), baked bean (yes, like pork n’ beans), a piece of sausage, bacon – which was mostly raw too (ooohhh yea, just the way I like it), some toast, and of course – some classic “ahenglish” (sound out your best british accent on this one) tea…

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Here’s a few photos from the winter Olympics this year. I’ll try to post more soon.

Enjoy!

Click the “read more” link to see the pics!!

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