Views of the UK in a nutshell

We woke up wednesday at 8 so that Darran could bring us to London Heathrow Airport with him, where we could catch a train. We decided to take a little tour of London.

We got to Victoria Station in London to find a hot and sunny day. Nick had told me to make sure to bring a sweatshirt with me to England because it was fairly chilly and rainy while he was here last summer. On the contrary, we have had nice sunny and very hot days the whole time I have been here, and wednesday was probably the hottest.

Anyways we called our roommate Laura and she said that she and Tom, whom used to live up the street, were driving in Tom's car to Salisbury.

<-----Laura with her Chapel in Bath

<---Tom

We then scrapped the work day and ordered a train ticket from London to Salisbury. While waiting for the train we took a little walking tour of London and saw parliament, the London Bridge, the Eye of London, Picadilly Circus, and Big Ben. We also got yelled at for trying to take a picture of a fountain in a mall because it was private property.

We had a couple issues but eventually got to the right station and got on our train to Salisbury. The train ride was pretty sweet, through London and then into the western part of England, which is mostly fields and farms.

When we arrived in Salisbury, it was the middle of the day and sweltering. We found Laura and Tom and then went to the Salisbury Cathedral.

The cathedral is the highest cathedral spire in England as well as the home of the world's oldest working clock from 1386 AD.

After the cathedral we had a drink at a nice little expensive pub and then grabbed lunch to go. Tom then drove us to nearby Stonehenge. Getting there wasn't as easy as you would think, it being only 10 miles away. For some reason GPS's in the UK don't work as well as in the states (Tom's NAVMAN had already taken them 80 miles out of the way en route to Salisbury). I had to woo some English people with my best American tourist accent and ask for directions. On the way, we found some castle remains and walked right in to take some pictures, but then got yelled at again because as I've said, nothing is free in England haha.

<---the moat at the castle

We just decided to leave and get going to Stonehenge...

Stonehenge was extremely hot, but still pretty awesome to see. With your 6 pound admission, comes a little cellphone thing that gives information about Stonehenge.

<----Nick listening to the stupid phone thing

I started listening while taking a rest in the grass nearby and ended up falling asleep for a while. We walked around a bit more, ate our lunch, and then got back on the road.

It turned out that Laura's cousin lived in Bath, which is an older city and a really neat little town. We took a little detour through some awesome driving roads (I wish I had my car...) and arrived in Bath. We walked around bath for a while and then set off for home in Birmingham.

The drive back was really nice, getting to see lots of the English countryside. We got home around 10, exhausted. I ate my leftovers from that awesome Indian restaurant and got too blogging haha.