Ok so we have spent ten days in Rome and Venice. Had a great time. The history there is amazing. I will post more about our adventures there soon. (I know ive been pretty hopeless) I will skip onto the Rome to London and London.
So we left Rome and headed to the Ciampino airport. There we had fun waiting in a long huge queue which i know cant be avoided in airports but this one was just to check in our bags and we waited 70 minutes. Over an hour. Then we had to go pay for luggage before we could get our boarding pass. This meant another 30 minute line. By the time we did all that then we were running very late after having got there early. After that the flight went pretty good and we arrived in London. It was so nice to have lines on the left hand side and to not feel like a dill trying to speak the local language or resorting to English. Most Italians didnt like to give you the chance to speak their language. They speak English at you. I used to fight them for the chance to speak Italian. Only on a few occasions when I said something that definitely wasnt in a guidebook would they oblige.
So we then caught a bus into the city of London itself. Even that was cool as we passed through most of the main sights. Tower Bridge, House of Parliament Big Ben, Westminster. Our hotel here in West Kensington is pretty great. Its a pretty good spot, close to everything but still pretty quiet. Yesterday we went and saw Buckingham Palace. With 50 million other people at the changing of the guards. Then we wandered up to Trafalgar square and Picadilly (yes we played Monopoly!) and then around SoHo and Oxford Street. Erin and I lost each other in TopShop. It was a very scary hour or so were both of us wandered and then eventually found each other.
Today we are going to see a show on Londons West End. The Lion King infact! We are also going to see Harrods. The next day is Monument day :) Having a blast here!
