I went to London the last weekend in November for an annual general meeting for a scholarship I had won. They offered to pay for our train tickets and put us up for a night if we came and talked for two minutes. What a deal!
The hotel turned out to be quaint and adorable, and I got a fantastic room- 9' ceilings, chandelier, huge window overlooking a park, king sized bed... All this followed by a free hot breakfast.
The meeting was at Goodenough College. I'm not sure quite what that means, but the little campus was beautiful. If I hadn't been there myself this time of year, I'd have sworn it was early spring.
Before the meeting, I met up with a couple other scholarship winners and toured the British Museum.
Classic. Hannah and I in a London phone booth.
For the Harry Potter nerd lurking in all of us... This is half the group I met at the scholarship meeting. Hannah, Collin and I stayed together for the evening; Colin then hung out for the weekend.
We caught a musical the first night. Oh, wondrous cat calling. :-) Dirty Dancing effects everyone the same way everywhere.
Of course, Big Ben is beautiful at night. Also, it is almost always night... Only 8 hours of daylight in England at this point!
We were lucky enough to catch the right day for the changing of the guard. I got yelled at by a man on horse for pausing to take this picture in front of the gate. "Keep MOVING!"
Jade, Colin and I in front of the Buckingham Palace. Jade is an Australian friend of mine from Leeds.
Portobello Market. I'm going to miss good street musicians. There was a man playing double bass in the street here.
We attended an Evensong Service in the Westminster Abby. I'd missed the tiny sign on the way in, and got yelled at for this photograph as well.
Thames and the London Eye. I didn't ride it on this trip (it was sooo cold and the line was long), but got to enjoy an entire wedding party standing in line for it. Standing on the dirty, wet pavement on a windy, cold winter night in your wedding gown must be a British thing...
Tower Bridge. (quite the hike, but it was the last very London thing we HAD to do!)
Piccadilly Square is far prettier at night, at least this time of year. There were Christmas lights and more activity this time of day than the morning we'd been there. Lucky we'd been chasing ear plugs after our delicious dinner in Chinatown. (Every hostel has its snorer!)
The hotel turned out to be quaint and adorable, and I got a fantastic room- 9' ceilings, chandelier, huge window overlooking a park, king sized bed... All this followed by a free hot breakfast.
The meeting was at Goodenough College. I'm not sure quite what that means, but the little campus was beautiful. If I hadn't been there myself this time of year, I'd have sworn it was early spring.
Before the meeting, I met up with a couple other scholarship winners and toured the British Museum.
Classic. Hannah and I in a London phone booth.
For the Harry Potter nerd lurking in all of us... This is half the group I met at the scholarship meeting. Hannah, Collin and I stayed together for the evening; Colin then hung out for the weekend.
We caught a musical the first night. Oh, wondrous cat calling. :-) Dirty Dancing effects everyone the same way everywhere.
Of course, Big Ben is beautiful at night. Also, it is almost always night... Only 8 hours of daylight in England at this point!
We were lucky enough to catch the right day for the changing of the guard. I got yelled at by a man on horse for pausing to take this picture in front of the gate. "Keep MOVING!"
Jade, Colin and I in front of the Buckingham Palace. Jade is an Australian friend of mine from Leeds.
Portobello Market. I'm going to miss good street musicians. There was a man playing double bass in the street here.
We attended an Evensong Service in the Westminster Abby. I'd missed the tiny sign on the way in, and got yelled at for this photograph as well.
Thames and the London Eye. I didn't ride it on this trip (it was sooo cold and the line was long), but got to enjoy an entire wedding party standing in line for it. Standing on the dirty, wet pavement on a windy, cold winter night in your wedding gown must be a British thing...
Tower Bridge. (quite the hike, but it was the last very London thing we HAD to do!)
Piccadilly Square is far prettier at night, at least this time of year. There were Christmas lights and more activity this time of day than the morning we'd been there. Lucky we'd been chasing ear plugs after our delicious dinner in Chinatown. (Every hostel has its snorer!)
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