Oct 24, 2004We were up at 8am, showered, fed and out the door by 10:30 the next morning. Our plan was to head straight to London and find a little hotel there from which we could tour the larger part of the city on foot. Ambitious plans.
We had to stop twice for directions, which we secretly pretended were intended to get food or take rest stops, but at last we found ourselves in the heart of the city. With a little luck and the friendly advice of several Londoners were quickly located a hostel just a block away from Westminster Abbey. The tricky part was finding parking for the rental car. The men had to drive all over the place before they at last tracked down a lot that would let them store the car for more than one day.
With our bags stored away in the hostel, we set out on foot to see city. Big Ben, Parliament, the Victoria Gardens, Westminster Abbwey, Westminster Cathedral, the new Scotland Yard and Trafalgar square all in one day!
We stopped to buy postcards and trinkets on the way back home. We wanted to stop at one of the many colorful, and wonderfully named pubs, but we didn't think we could get back before it started raining on us again. And we were exhausted from all the walking!
While Robyn and I wrote postcards to those we'd left back in the States, Jason and Nate managed to sneak out and visit one of the pubs. It took Robyn and I about an hour to figure out they couldn't possibly be on the phone for that long and that they must have deserted us. We gave them hell when they got back, and only felt mildly smug over the fact that they'd each been able to afford only one drink on the cash they had in pocket.
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