europe

Thursday, June 29, 2006

i'm in london now

and having eaten and drunk… drinked?  i dunno… at any rate we had dinner and drinks on the thames river and that was cool… overlooking the tower bridge and the tower of london and a cool naval museum housed on a boat.  i have pictures but i’ll have to post ‘em later.

anyways, as i was saying, having eaten and drunked =), i am now ready for bed at 1:19 am.

toodles!

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update:  why’d i wake up at 6am? i dunno, but here i am, awake, so i thought i’d post pics. (btw, all of these are links to larger images)


the “old wellington inn and restaurant” building is the oldest one on record in manchester, dating back to 1552.  it was cute… small on the inside, but a nice large outdoor dining area.  we stopped by for a few minutes on our walking tour of manchester, right before we took off for london



the tower of london is this old historical place which houses the crown jewels and was where ann boleyn was killed or something or other… it’s on our list of things to see, after which i’ll be able to talk a little bit more intelligently about it, but it was also our meeting point to find the keys to the ‘flat’ where we’re staying, just down the road… yup, we’re staying on tower road!


tower bridge… apparently this is the bridge that the US thought they were buying when they bought london bridge (y’know, the one at lake havasu!) hahahah… what suckers we are…

eating on the thames with tower bridge and the guerkin building behind us.  i’m with marlene and HJ (pauline’s flatmate, aka our tour guide)


obligatory night time pic of the bridge


marlene sitting on the wall of the thames…


me on the wall of the thames

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

here in england

first leg of my journey:  manchester, UK
the flight… so tiring!  this is how we both looked after both flights:

and then we walked all over manchester.  and i mean, we walked ALL OVER manchester.  just the main parts of town, but still.  we went back and forth and saw the museum and the library and the urbis and a whole buncha other stuff, we hit up everything that was in the tourist guide book.

this is a cool building we saw looking for the urbis

and chris and i got to stick up a photo on the wall inside the museum.  leaving our mark, y’know?

anyways, i dropped chris off at the station around 4 so that he can go on to visit elsa in germany, and now i’m all alone.  i went to a play entitled “she stoops to conquer” in this cool building

but y’know, i think i was just so tired from all the traveling i kept on drifting off to sleep… my head was nodding =) hahahahaha… seriously, since monday noon, i’ve only had about 3 2-hour naps at the most!  i slept 2 hours on monday night/tuesday morning, and about 2 hours on the first plane, and two hours on the second plane, and now it’s almost 4pm PST on wednesday… so that would be almost 46 hours?  yeah… i’ve been awake that long… yikes!

anyways, the only other thing to report is that their damn accent that makes them sound so cool makes it incredibly hard for us to understand each other.  i don’t know if i’ve talked to anyone without having to say, “sorry?  could you repeat that?”

at one point we bought an ice cream bar and then asked the girl, “so what’s cool to do around here?” and she stared at us blankly, nudged her co-worker, and whispered, “you gotta help ‘em! i don’t understand what they’re saying!”

oh wow… they can’t understand me either!

maybe after i sleep a little it’ll all get better =)

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