Arrived in London around 8 in the morning after a rather long flight from O’Hare, luckily I slept a few hours on the flight. Once we got here and went through customs we took the underground to the London Bridge. It took about 45 minutes on the underground to get from Heathrow out to London Bridge. The Hostel that we’re staying in is right down the street from the London Bridge tunnel exit. Check-in wasn’t until 2pm, and at this point all I really wanted was a shower. But we had to wait and kill several hours. So we walked around the London Bridge area. I have to say this, trying to find a public restroom can be tricky. I finally managed to find a self “cleaning” toilet that you have to pay to use. The HMS Belfast was down from the bridge, so we decided to tour it. It saw action during the second world war. The rest of the evening was hanging out at the hostel and catching up on sleep.

Today, we got up and ate lunch at the hostel, cereal with toast and jelly… yum. We took the underground out to Hyde Park. It’s a fairly large sized park. We walked around there for a bit, and from there we found a bus tour that we could get on and off of that would take us around the city to the sites we wanted to see. Our first bus guide was really interesting, but unfortunately the bus was having problems so we had to get off and change to another one. The lady doing this one was basically Eeyore. The most interesting thing she said was that her great great great grandfather owned a shop in an area we were in, but had it taken away because he turned out to be counterfeiting. We didn’t have to stay on this bus long because we got off at Trafalgar Square. From the square we walked our way down to Buckingham Palace. And then we made it back around to Big Ben, Parliament, and other government buildings. From there we made it back to Trafalgar an got on to another bus. We stayed on it until it stopped at London Bridge/ Had lunch/dinner at the restaurant-bar that is attached to the hostel. It was really good… Aussie Burger (hamburger with aged cheeses, ham, fried egg, heart attack and a few other things) with potato wedges.

A lot of the things we wanted to see we got to see today, so I’m not real sure what’s up for tomorrow. Cheers!