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sunny day in london!

millenium bridge view

st. paul's cathedral

Lazy Day

Today was a lazy day for me. I went and drove around the area near the hotel for a while and found a place to do my laundry. Driving was again very fun, especially when I got lost and had to use my intuition to navigate around the area hahahaha. After that I went to the nearby shopping mall and did some shopping there. For the most part that’s pretty much all I did…today was my ‘day off’ from traveling hahaha. I also hung around the hotel watching BBC/CNN about Bush’s election victory….I really don’t understand how he could get re-elected

Walking around...

I did some more sightseeing (and got lost many times) and also did some window shopping on the way hahaha. Things here are soooooooo expensive when you convert the currency to Canadian dollars!!! I went to Piccadilly Circus / Leicester Square area and saw all that there was to see there. I took a lot of wrong turns today but was able to finally figure out my way around the whole subway system here which I think is actually quite an achievement! After that I actually ran into some other people who were new here in London as well and hung out with them for the rest of the night. I met a really nice girl originally from Canada!!! (Victoria) there too and we took the ‘underground’ back together and both got lost hahaha, but eventually found our way…I’m planning on meeting up with her and some of her friends to go out on Saturday, just as friends in case any of you are wondering!

nice view

monument -- read the fine print on it!

Loving Life in London

Hello,

Just to let you all know I'm not gonna be posting for the next few days cause I've got sooooo much to do and see here plus the access fee for the phone here to connect to the internet is pretty high!

Will post TONS of interesting stories soon (cause I'm meeting up with a lot of friends here!)

Discovering London

I had to wake up at 8 in the morning to sort out all the ferry stuff to the UK and actually was able to get a real good price for the ferry from Calais. UK Customer was surprisingly crusty with us, but eventually let us get on the ferry. We took the super-fast hoverspeed ferry and made it to Dover in about an hour. It was REALLY weird for the first little while driving on the other side of the road here. I actually found it very fun though. We EVENTUALLY made it to London and found our way to the hotel. After some unpacking I was off to meet up with a friend of mine who’s here, Decky. I decided to take the subway to meet with him, but as they call it here the ‘tube’ or ‘underground.’ In fact the term subway here in London has a completely different meaning – it refers to underground passageways hahahaha. Anyways I took the ‘tube’ and after getting very lost eventually made it to where I was supposed to. The subway line in London is far more sophisticated than in Toronto, they have like 10 different lines here or something and they split into different directions at quite a few places. Anyways I had dinner with Decky and another guy, Ananda also from Toronto and that was very nice. We had a lot to talk about! After that I did some sightseeing and that was the day. For the most part I just walked around near Piccadilly Circus and it was actually very nice to just walk around and not have to worry about following a map. If I got lost I could just ask some one in ENGLISH. Oh how I miss English! Anyways Piccadilly really is a circus hahaha it’s very busy commercial district and if you walk a bit farther you run into the unbelievable amount of theatres that are here.

ferry boarding

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Leaving Paris...

After doing some sight seeing in Paris on Saturday we headed to Calais and after EVENTUALLY finding the hotel I called it a night. I did some personal work and then that was the day. Today (Sunday) I just hung around the hotel and went to Calais’ city center. There was not much to see there and I didn’t bring my camera so I have nothing to show! Anyways, not much else went on today. Happy Halloween to all of you in Canada and the US though! I saw some kids walking around in costumes today and was again very tempted to go buy a costume hahahaAnywho, tomorrow we’re gonna take a ferry to the UK and I’m really excited about visiting London cause I have a lot of people to meet up with there!

Fun in Paris

Today was a VERY busy day of sight seeing. Oh and I just realized I’ve been spelling sight (not cite!) seeing wrong all this time…how embarrassing :( Me do know English by the way and I had a feeling it was wrong all this time. Anywho yeah I pretty much visited everywhere I wanted to go to today. You know everyone has told me that Paris is the most beautiful city in the world and they’re right! There is something here for everyone – from beautiful walking areas (the La Defense area has a huge walking area next to INCREDIBLE sky scrappers), all the artwork to make anyone tired in the Louvre, beautiful monuments spread throughout the city, and places to hang out at night…Paris really has it all! That being said I doubt I could ever picture myself living here cause there’s almost too many things going on here! After doing some sight seeing throughout the day I went to the Louvre in the evening and I can’t emphasize how freakin big this place is! I had only allocated three and a half hours here (like I said a very busy day!) and that definitely was not enough time to see everything…not even close. So I rushed around, spending time at the exhibit areas that interested me most. I didn’t have much time to look at all the various painting exhibits which did kinda of suck, but hey what can you do. It’s very tough to get around here too, this place is like a maze and not all the elevators and stairs take you to where you HOPE to go. But yeah so a lot of walking! After that I did some more sight seeing here and there and then went out to check out the night life in Paris in the “student” area. The streets were packed and it really was an awesome atmosphere to be in. Sadly though none of the pubs/clubs I went by would let just little old me in by myself. I came across this Jazz club that I was thinking of going to but after walking around for a little bit longer I stopped off the sit at this café with a live guitarist instead. And I was glad I did that! The guitarist was playing lots of classic oldies songs (from the beetles to Eric Clapton) and it was very nice sitting, relaxing, and just enjoying the music. I also met a group of New Yorkers who were here traveling around and hung out with them for a little bit which was quite nice. We made fun of George Bush together too hahaha. After chit chatting with them about stuff for a while I decided to call it a night cause I have to wake up at 7 am tomorrow to pick up our new car. Overall though it was a really awesome day…I finally met some ENGLISH speaking people my age in Paris and I was able to see all the sights I wanted to. Tomorrow I’m gonna pick up the new car, do some more sight seeing, and then drive to Calais.

pantheon 

place de la Concorde 

place de la Concorde 

notre dame at night 

Seated Scribe 

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