On Friday we got up and went straight to the Chelsea Football Stadium for a tour. We decided to play it safe and go in the morning so we knew it would be open. We got to sit in the stands, see the changing rooms, moisturize our hands with £40 lotion, sit at the press table, and run through 'the tunnel.' Sweet stadium, awesome tour guide, great time. After we left we ate at a mexican restaurant that only served italian food. Weird? Yes. It was okay, not great. Might be why we were the only customers... Headed back into downtown London and went on the London Eye. Paid £18 to wait in line for about an hour to get a half-hour trip to see the top of London. It was cool, may have been a little overpriced. Skipped on over to Westminster Abbey, but it was closed, boo! So we headed out to St. Paul's Cathedral and saw the Millenium Bridge and Shakespeare's Globe Theater.
When we got back to the hostel we decided to go out on a 'pub' crawl that they were holding. It was more of a club crawl, with free shots and waitresses walking around with jägermeister and middle-aged men busting moves. The first club we went to was pretty cool, the DJ was awesome. Not as much can be said for the second one...some girl told us out front not to go in, we should have heeded her words. When we left we got caught at the bus stop for a half-hour waiting for the bus we assumed was not coming, so started walking back. About an hour later... Probably not the best decision. Slept well that night though.
Woke up early on Saturday for our bus tour to Stonehenge and Bath. We had a pretty cool tour guide, had that British wit. Payton and Keith liked Stonehenge. I have seen it before, but this time we got audio tours - where were our audio tours last time, Siciliano? Had a nutella and peanut butter sandwich, cheap and delicious, and headed out to Bath. Walked around a little and toured the Bath Abbey, which Queen Liz I deemed the 'lantern of the west.' Very beautiful. Ate at a local pub called the Crystal Palace. Keith had a curry dish, amazing, and I had some vegetable soup, also amazing, and some beers of course. Payton did not eat, lame. Once we got back to London we were dropped off at Harrods, England's major department store, and looked around. Expensive! But worth walking through. We were there for about 2.5 hours and spent an hour on one floor alone (I think there are four floors), where we sat in £700 dining chairs. Got back to our hostel and had dinner at one of the pubs nearby. We decided to make it tradition to eat dessert on our last night in each city. So we ordered a hot fudge chocolate cake, sticky toffee pudding, and a waffle with chocolate sauce. All great choices. Then headed back and slept.
Sunday morning we got up and checked out of our hostel. Caught a cab to St. Pancras Station and boarded the Eurostar. Did not really notice going through the chunnel, a lot shorter/faster than I anticipated. We caught our next train to Amsterdam, but because of my poor hearing, thanks family genetics, got off at the wrong station. So, we sat around in Antwerp, Belgium for an hour and played cards. Got on another train, saw some Belgian horses, and made it safely to Amsterdam. Checked into the hostel, Payton cut his toe, locked our stuff away, Payton broke a fingernail, made our beds, poked Payton in the eye, and headed out for some sight-seeing. Walked the canals, through the edge of Chinatown, and the Red Light District, which honestly was not very red. Ate some pizza at a pub and had some Warsteiner. After that we found another bar to hang out at and people watched. And I have to say, people watching in Amsterdam is epic. Do it. Once the bar closed we were hanging out on a bridge and met some people from IU. Talked with them a bit and asked what they would reccommend we do. They had some suggestions about taking mushrooms and laughing at people and clouds in the park. Not really something on our to do list, ao we just nodded and smiled. After that we headed back and slept.
That is all I am going to spoil you with now. We're in Berlin now, but you will have to wait for the next installment soon.
steinkraus.
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