So Yesterday (Monday), my good friend Lindsay and I left for a quick trip across the BIG pond for a little more than a week! Our flights were all screwed up, but none the less, we made it! Here we are just pulling out of London Heathrow Airport in the little taxi heading to our hotel in London. (Do realize we both only got a few hours of sleep on the plane and were grose and tired from traveling all evening and night! So dont judge the way we look!)
This is not our taxi... but this is what ours looked like! :)
Because our flight out of Atlanta did not leave until about 11pm Monday night, we did not land until noon London time (7am EST) on Tuesday. So... we were exhausted when we landed. BUT... we decided we would go and check-in to the hotel, get showers and freshen up, and then go out and explore some. We found the perfect way to see the city out expending too much energy-- A Bus Tour!! We rode all over the city in the top of an open-air double decker bus! We saw all the major sites of the city and got a good overview so we can decide what we want to go back to and see in more detail! We did the complete loop and ended back about a block from our hotel. After our tour, we went to dinner at The Bistro, which is was a strange little local restaurant. But it was very good... and relatively cheap. So it was a good fit for us!Here are a few pictures from our tour!
1.) Trafalgar Square
2.) St. Thomas's Hospital (where Florence Nightingale really formulated and trained nurses in the ward-- for Architecture and Health people, this was exciting!)
3.) Parliament Building and Big Ben
5.) Last but not least... here we are again, post shower on the bus tour. We still look tired, but at least we were clean!!!
More to come tomorrow!!!
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