I know, I know. I'm a horrible blogger. But I have made my triumphant return and have many a stories to tell you all!
10:02 AM (Plane from LONDON --> MADRID)
Last trip we left off, I had just come back from San Sebastián and Bilbao. After that, I left for London for a weekend in March to visit my friend Evelyn from NYC who is also doing a program with her university there. It was so good to get a little taste of home after being away. :)
I was kind of scared of getting lost because I had never traveled alone but I managed to get to her dorm all by myself! Yay for me. I'm pretty sure that there was a band on my bus ride from the airport to central London. They had a very metrosexual manager who kept talking about gigs and wore Prada sunglasses and pointy snake-skin shoes. It was amusing, to say the least.Friday was Tourist Day for me. I saw St. Paul's Basilica, House of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery and Covent Gardens all in one day. 'Twas amazing. Along the way we also stumbled across a bunch of little parts of London, including various bars with funky names and a food market which was really cute. Covent Gardens had these street performers that were incredible. They were jumping and playing classical music at the same time. Multi-tasking, oh yeah.
(St. Paul's Basilica)
(London Bridge)
At the end of the day, I went on a Ghost Tour of London that Evelyn signed us up for because it was Friday the 13th and it was part of her program. I can honestly say that that night I saw a London I never would have seen otherwise. Our tour guide, Richard, took us to these tiny alleys and streets and told us a bunch of creepy stories. And he had this deep voice with the British accent.. oy.Saturday was amazing. We slept in and then went to Euston Pub to watch the Liverpool v. Manchester United game and Liverpool won! (Fernando Torres is on that team.. hence, I must root for them.) They kicked Manchester's ass 4-1! The atmosphere alone was fun and it's something that you don't really find in NYC unless it's the World Cup (which, incidentally is coming up next summer! South Africa 2010!!) and it was just fun to be in a bar watching a game with a bunch of football fans.
(We didn't eat here, but I love the name of this restaurant.)
(Ze standard Big Ben photo..)
(London Eye!) 
(Trafalgar Sq.)
(The Jumping Musicians.) 
Then we went to see "He's Just Not That Into You." Yes, chick flick, I know. But it was so much fun to make fun of how corny the movie was. Evelyn's expressions are priceless. Plus, Justin Long is in that movie and he's the Mac Guy. And no matter how corny the movie he is, the Mac Guy is awesome. What really impressed me was the movie theatre though. Joder. It was GORGEOUS. If only NYC had movie theatres like that.. I mean, not even the AMC in Manhattan is this nice --
Then Evelyn and a bunch of her friends and I went to this Latin night club called Tito's and it was glorious. They had merengue, bachata, salsa.. We left the club around 3am and by 4:30am I was on my way to catch my flight back to Madrid. I probably slept around 35 minutes in 28 hours but it was so worth it.
(Btw. I'm a gangsta in London. Believe it.) Sleep time!
-Midget
No comments:
Post a Comment