The last leg - london round 2
Our first day back in london was spent pretty low key as we had a
early afternoon flight from Dublin. We checked into the same hostel as
our first go around and dropped off our packs. We headed into
liecester square and got some chinese, 40 lbs per person so $80
american each. but it was good! after that we were all pretty beat so
we decided to go see spiderman 3 at this really cool theatre in the
square. That was pretty much it for that day as the trip had been
starting to take it's toll on us.
The next day we got up really early thinking we had to get picked up
at this hotel about a mile away for our tour of bath, Stone henge and
windsor castle. As it turns out they were scheduled to pick us up at
our hostel so we luckily discoverd that early enough to get back to
meet up with our driver. This was an all day tour with
lots of long drives on a small van/bus. It took over an hour to reach
our first stop of stone henge. Our luck of good weather was still
with us as even though it was cloudy it didnt rain. The area around
stone henge was very, very green! kinda the way we expected it to be
in Ireland. The whole ride out was filled with really nice rolling
hills. We did a walking tour when we got there and took pictures of
the area. It was alot smaller then we expected but still a pretty cool
place, not much is really known for what it's actual purpose was besides being a possible calender. Everything else in the tour was
mere speculation. From there we got back in the vans for another hour-plus ride to the city of Bath. Bath is a city built around Hot
springs. It was very cool place and the ruins there were from the
Romans. It was amazing to see just how advanced the Romans were in the
design of the Buildings which had plumbing and heated floors. The
water from the spring was said to have healing properties and we were
able to drink a galss full. It did not taste good! After the walk
through we were able to chill out in the surrounding town. The area
was particularly beutiful, even comparing to parts of paris. The
whole city was in a valley and the buildings stacked in rows higher
and higher along the hill side. From there we jumped back into the
vans and headed to Windsor Castle. The Castle is one of the largest in
the world and had a really cool feel to it. It looked more like an old
fortress from braveheart or something, from the outside. The inside
was very rich, decorated with lavish art and such. After our tour was over we
stayed in downtown London until it got dark. We took a ride on the
London eye, which is a huge ferris wheel structure that has pods that
hold around 20 people or so. It was a half hour ride all the way
around and gave us a pretty cool view of london. After our ride we
waited for it to get darker and then took alot of night pictures of
Big-Ben, Parliment, and the Eye. It was our last night in London so we
went back, got cleaned up and spent the rest of the night at a Bar not
far from the hostel. It was actually very crowded,
especially for a sunday night. Good times.
We are currently at the airport waiting to get on our flight. Thanks
for checking the blog when you could and sorry for not posting every
day as we would have liked. CHEERS! See you soon, sooooooo many pics
to show! - John

some pics