Tuesday, June 15, 2004

London Time

Jessica and I cannot seem to get onto London time quite yet. We just keep sleeping whenever we are tired and that doesn't seem to be the time everybody else is sleeping. Well anyways we woke up yesterday at like 3 am and just sat talking to all these people that came in from their nights out and that is when you really meet the "interesting" people. Its all fun though because the security guards were also taking part in the convo. So Jessica and I stayed up till 7am and that is when they serve breakfest. So we got breakfest and had a conversation with this girl named Giovanni from Brazil who is an artist and works at the hostel, this man name John who was french and barely spoke any english and this other security guard name Arno from South Africa. It was pretty interesting talking to them all cause i dont think we would have ever got all the same people from all those different countries unless we were in a hostel. I was just so fascinated by that. After we ate breakfest we made our plans to go to Big Ben, The Parlimentary Buildings, the London Bridge, and St. Pauls Chapel. The St. Paul's chapel was vey cool. They are restoring parts of it but when you went inside you saw all these tombs and things written on the wall for mostly people who lost their lives in battles. To get inside the church part it costed like 7 pounds a person which was pretty expensive and i was really pissed about it, but when you got inside it was the most magnificent thing i have ever seen. The detail that was put into this cieling was remarkable. You couldn't take pictures inside other wise the police would get you. So i just took pictures around the building. I am still having to find a place i can upload my pictures on but i will ask this person if i can borrow his lap top. So after all the site seeing we went into this sandwich shop bought a sandwich, walked to St. James park and just sat on the grass watching people and the ducks. There are so many tourist that it is easy to spot them out of a crowd especially Americans because they were very distinctive clothing that a regular English person wouldn't wear. As for today what we did is basically sleep and i had to go to the Pharmacy to get some cold sore stuff for Jessica because from all the loss of sleep and staying up at ungodly hours of the night she got a huge cold sore. Tonight we are just going to go somewhere to eat and walk around. That is alot more fun to do then stay in the hostel. I really enjoy just walking around and taking the city in because its just so much fun to do. I had really good fish and chips at this one place on the corner. IT seems to be the place that we go to buy fish and chips. They are really really really good and its so true that you have to try them in England because they are completly different than in America. Tomorrow we are planning to take a "walk" to see all these beatles things. It only costs 6 pounds and it is a daily thing that is done through the hostel. That should be fun.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Brinie,
Enjoyed reading "Your Days in London" or the adventures of Sabrina and Jessica. I'm like you, love to talk to people from different countries. Was surprised you had security guards, but then I guess, it is the times. Bet you had no trouble carrying on a conversation in French! Soon you will have to depart, so I hope you visited everything you wanted. Just like your Mother said, don't worry about the pictures, if you can't send them, we will see them all when you return. Have a good one. Love, Grandpa & Grandma
PS. Did you get a thank you note out to Umu Said's friend that showed you such a good time?

June 15, 2004 at 4:40 PM  

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