We're back.
So we are back home. It is strange to think of home being in Germany. Anyway, our vacation in London was awesome.
It takes about an hour to get to the airport that we flew out of, and that is moslty because you have to take farming roads. We flew with Ryanair, the craziest first-come-first-served airline ever. We still don't know why they can't just assign seats. So you have to line up way early and fight a European crowd (which means all over you, super close) to hopefully get a seat next to your loved one. I did not even have a chance to read all of my Rolling Stone before we were in London. It was less than an hour flight, but the landing there was dreadful. We did not even get out of the airport before the spending began. There was a Clark's store there, and well, lovely shoes too. Shopping with luggage was quite a chore. There also was a sports store there, but I bit my tongue and waited to get a soccer jersey (which would not last all that long).
We had to get on a train to get to the center of London, which I am still trying to define, as there was a bunch a city names that we ran into. Well, the train was a 45 minutes stroll through very rural England. At least it was more exciting than the drive to Paris. When we got to our stop for the "tube", we had seen more people there than in all of Bitburg. A few stops later, we got to our stop for our hotel and dumped off our baggage. We could not wait too long before we wanted to get out and about London. We started at all the closer things, which to us meant shopping streets. Right outside our tube stop was a Virgin megastore, to which I gasped and ran into. 5 Cds later, we were on our way. The long walk along a beautiful park dumped us off at Harrod's, a world famous department store. We walked around in there laughing at the ridiculous prices, but ran into something way more precious....Krispy Kremes! We bought some, and took some home for the following morning.
Then we went to Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's church, and plenty of walking. Finding food in London is not tough, finding GOOD food in London is a different story. I can now relay almost all of the cafe/restaurants menu......Burgers, Pasta (about 5 things), Main Course (including English breakfast....look it up, everything fried), and Starters. The thing is that everyone had the same menu.
Picadilly Circus and Oxford street were lovely, all shopping areas, then after asking some Brits, we took their advice and went to Trafalagar's Square. That was a disappointment, but it took us down The Mall to Buckingham Palace, and further on to Big Ben. We decided to drop the money for the London Eye, which is a huge Ferris Wheel that allows for great views of London.
The last full day was us just looking around from more things to look at. After the original Hard Rock, I wanted to make sure that I got a pint of lager somewhere legitimate. We found an Irish pub, where some Irish music was playing live. That was a great experience for me. That day too, I found a place that really had my clans tartan, in scarf form. It took the guy looking around a few moments to find it, but I had to get it.
I would say that in London, we had more American food than we have had in the 3 years we have been here. While we did not find the Wendy's; the Krispy Kreme, TGI Friday's, Hard Rock, and KFC all were quite a treat. But we are glad to be back in our bed, and not one made of stone.
It takes about an hour to get to the airport that we flew out of, and that is moslty because you have to take farming roads. We flew with Ryanair, the craziest first-come-first-served airline ever. We still don't know why they can't just assign seats. So you have to line up way early and fight a European crowd (which means all over you, super close) to hopefully get a seat next to your loved one. I did not even have a chance to read all of my Rolling Stone before we were in London. It was less than an hour flight, but the landing there was dreadful. We did not even get out of the airport before the spending began. There was a Clark's store there, and well, lovely shoes too. Shopping with luggage was quite a chore. There also was a sports store there, but I bit my tongue and waited to get a soccer jersey (which would not last all that long).
We had to get on a train to get to the center of London, which I am still trying to define, as there was a bunch a city names that we ran into. Well, the train was a 45 minutes stroll through very rural England. At least it was more exciting than the drive to Paris. When we got to our stop for the "tube", we had seen more people there than in all of Bitburg. A few stops later, we got to our stop for our hotel and dumped off our baggage. We could not wait too long before we wanted to get out and about London. We started at all the closer things, which to us meant shopping streets. Right outside our tube stop was a Virgin megastore, to which I gasped and ran into. 5 Cds later, we were on our way. The long walk along a beautiful park dumped us off at Harrod's, a world famous department store. We walked around in there laughing at the ridiculous prices, but ran into something way more precious....Krispy Kremes! We bought some, and took some home for the following morning.
Then we went to Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's church, and plenty of walking. Finding food in London is not tough, finding GOOD food in London is a different story. I can now relay almost all of the cafe/restaurants menu......Burgers, Pasta (about 5 things), Main Course (including English breakfast....look it up, everything fried), and Starters. The thing is that everyone had the same menu.
Picadilly Circus and Oxford street were lovely, all shopping areas, then after asking some Brits, we took their advice and went to Trafalagar's Square. That was a disappointment, but it took us down The Mall to Buckingham Palace, and further on to Big Ben. We decided to drop the money for the London Eye, which is a huge Ferris Wheel that allows for great views of London.
The last full day was us just looking around from more things to look at. After the original Hard Rock, I wanted to make sure that I got a pint of lager somewhere legitimate. We found an Irish pub, where some Irish music was playing live. That was a great experience for me. That day too, I found a place that really had my clans tartan, in scarf form. It took the guy looking around a few moments to find it, but I had to get it.
I would say that in London, we had more American food than we have had in the 3 years we have been here. While we did not find the Wendy's; the Krispy Kreme, TGI Friday's, Hard Rock, and KFC all were quite a treat. But we are glad to be back in our bed, and not one made of stone.
posted by Steven Yost at 7:08 PM
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