Now that we’ve lived in London for nearly two weeks, it’s starting to become obvious who the tourists are: They speak English like Americans or don’t speak English at all They tote cameras around openly in the streets, snapping pictures of just about everything within a 360 degree range They fumble with tickets or Oystercards [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Acting Like A London Tourist
Posted in London Life, tagged big ben, davinci, lions, london, national portrait gallery, paintings, parliament, picasso, pictures, river thames, tourist, trafalgar square, van gough on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fog Doesn’t Spoil Day Trip To Stonehenge, Salisbury
Posted in Beyond London, tagged chocolate, horizon, hot chocolate, london, magna carta, medieval, rocks, salisbury, salisbury cathedral, spire, stonehenge on January 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Friday, I traveled nearly two hours from London to see rocks. These famous rocks make up the mysterious Stonehenge. I wasn’t terribly impressed. I understand how it is an amazing feat that nearly 4,000 years ago, men were able to transport and raise these rocks to form a circle. However, the circle is small [...]
School Begins, Bringing New Routines And Stress
Posted in London Life, Travel Advice, tagged booking, class, college, easyjet, london, routines, stress, travel, trips, work on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The administrators of Faraday House warned us last Friday about how stressful it is to study abroad and I laughed. I didn’t believe I could ever be stressed out. I felt as though I was living in London with the exclusive purpose of having fun. The stress hit me like a double-decker bus. There’s class, [...]
Day Six’s Trip To Greenwich
Posted in London Life, tagged bus tour, charles II, greenwich, london, market, median line, pastry, pictures, professor, queen's house, university of greenwich on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My exhaustion is starting to get the best of me. A trip to Starbucks in the morning was a jolt of energy when I needed it the most, but after an entire day in Greenwich, even caffeine can’t rectify my exhaustion. Our bus tour was fantastic. A history professor with as much knowledge as a [...]
Day Five: The Market, The Theatre and The Dinner
Posted in London Life, tagged antiques, colored houses, culture, faraday, gary tushaw, leicester square, melanie's, notting hill, portobello market, the mousetrap, the west end, theatre, tube on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I go to a foreign country, one of my favorite ways of seeing how the locals live is to visit the market. Portobello Market is a few minutes walk from the Notting Hill Gate tube stop. My flat-mates and I followed the crowds as they walked down streets lined with different colored houses. At [...]
Walking Off Day Four
Posted in London Life, tagged africa, america, art, asia, british museum, canon camera, coffin, greek, life and death, london, museum, roman, statues on January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My feet are swollen and hurt quite a bit. It’s not just from Thursday’s walking tour. After an academic orientation meeting at 9:30 a.m., I decided to go with my friend to the British Museum, fulfilling Thursday’s promise to myself. I’ve been there before, but I forgot about exactly how much of the world’s history [...]
Day Three: The Day I Finally Became A Tourist
Posted in London Life on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Dan Brown’s books are awful,” our tour guide said several times. When I arrived at Faraday House for a guided walking tour around London, I didn’t expect to hear about American literature (or phenomena, depending on your opinion). Since I’ve arrived in London, I’ve gotten to experience more than I’ve expected and this tour was [...]
Day Two’s Never-Ending Errands
Posted in London Life, tagged day two, errands, faraday house, friends, landlord, london, mobile phones, orange, princess louise, pub, rain, shakespeare's head, syracuse, talk mobile, v's place on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I thought my flat-mates and I would be able to coast along after we moved in on the first day we arrived in London. We already had the hardest part of our study abroad experience worked out, which for most students, is just finding a place to live. I was wrong. I woke up Tuesday [...]
Dozing Through Day One In London
Posted in London Life, tagged airport, day one, exhaustion, faraday house, flat, flight, food, heathrow, london, luggage, mcglashans, moving, pub, suitcases, travel, virgin atlantic, walk up on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
THE TRIP Two flights, one hour of sleep and zero patience–group flights are not for the weak of heart. When nearly 100 people are involved with moving from one place to one another, everything goes slower. Passport control seems to go on for hours, when in reality, it’s a 15 minute wait. Waiting for coach [...]
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