Thursday, February 7, 2013

Leaving London

Now I've finally made it to the final day of this trip.  The weekend felt like it was a week long instead of just two days. We were in London less than 48 hours! It's unbelievable.
Sunday morning we were up bright and early again, getting breakfast downstairs in the hostel and out by 9ish.  Emilie had a friend studying in London who we were going to meet up with at 11:30ish, so we decided to get a little more sightseeing in before we met up with him.  We headed North towards Camden town, which is where the Camden Market is. 
The Camden Market is like a flea market.  It is open (possibly?) every day of the week. There are a bunch of small shops in Camden town, and on top of that there are tons of vendors and stalls with people selling things. If you look hard enough you can find tremendous deals and you can find nearly anything you want there. It was interesting to look around and it was all over.  You turned a corner and there were another tonn of vendors, then you think you've made it through everything, and you're not. 
After having our fill of vendors and people asking us if we were interested in things we had glanced at for two seconds, we headed to Starbucks for some coffee (in my case, hot chocolate) and then took the underground South to Waterloo station (which was huge) and met Emilie's friend there.  He took us across the river on a beautiful walk to where he has his classes in London--right next to Trafalgar Square.  He showed us where he has his classes and the building was absolutely beautiful inside.  Then we bought some lunch right next to Trafalgar Square, and ate our lunch in the square.  We then proceeded to walk back to Waterloo station and took the underground to the Railway Station in Euston and caught the train back to Telford. We got back to campus at about 5:30 (Here, 5:30 might be expressed as 17:30 or 'half five').  
I wanted to have dinner and sleep, but I decided to go to a CU event instead (Christian Union) in...some town...near here. It happens every other week on Sunday evenings as part of a different group from another college and I decided to give it a go.  (Which is another thing I hear said a lot here, let's 'give-it-a-go!", almost like it's one word) It was a good time.
I also find it fairly important to mention that if you are ever in England and would like Lemonade, you're not going to get what you expect.  I tried to order Lemonade that first night in London and I ended up with 7Up. I was thinking maybe they had just messed up, but that is what is considered their Lemonade here, and I don't think they really have normal American Lemonade. Sadness.)

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