Travelling from Ormskirk to Liverpool is amazing.
I absolutely love the public transportation here, I wish we had stuff like this in the USA.
The cost is cheap and the timing is pretty good.
Liverpool itself is a great place to go for the weekend.
I have been multiple times with different people and it is nice to just get out of the small town to a bigger city.
The shopping there is amazing, but do not worry, I haven't been major clothes shopping since being here, I have bough maybe 5 things total, plus a pair of good sturdy boots. They did not even make a dent in my budget, but the stuff for class has.
I am pretty proud of myself. I have been budgetting things reasonably well, and things are looking good, the only thing that will kill me is school costs and the like.
I can definitely say that I have been bitten by the travel bug, and when I get back to the USA I will need to travel more and more. I mean, I have visited a technically 2 countries and i have yet to see much of my own that I can remember lol.
I am ready for my own adventure to keep unfolding :)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Old Posts
I have updated some of my old posts with pictures. I hope that you check them out.
I will also take this time to inform you. I am going to be adding some posts on here that I have had saved on my computer. There is one that is a few weeks old, or even a month or two old, so don't worry things have been sorted, but still. I feel I need to give an accurate portrayal of this experience, both good and bad. So yes, there will be some negative things posted, there may even be some upsetting, but do not worry. I am out of those bouts of depression or homesickness. I do not mind comments you know, so please do leave some love :)
So yeah. I will be adding things off and on. They might be older or recent, I will try to add dates of the experience or give you a view on when it happened... Hell I will try to add them in the correct order in the right month, so now you will have to go hunting for them >:-) I am evil aren't I lol.
Peace
Friday, February 10, 2012
My London Experience
Okay. So it was a bitter sweet trip to London for me. My good friend went home, she is really sick and it turns out that the burn she got is even worse than we originally suspected. It is very scary, and my heart goes out to her. I miss her so much already.
London was amazing. After I dropped her off at the airport, I took the Tube to my Hostel, Clink 261. I won’t lie. The hostel was not a great place. The people working there were rude sometimes, and seemed like they were just there for a payday. They were not very welcoming nor was the atmosphere that great. The place was kind of dirty, and the rooms were small. But there were some up sides. There was this great guy working the front desk when I got in and he really helped. Check-in was at 11am, and I got in at 6:30am. He let me check in early into a room and that was greatly appreciated since I only got about 2 hours of sleep the night before. There was free continental breakfast, great showers, and the beds were very comfy.
After I woke up it was around 9am and went and got some free breakfast :-)
It was nice to eat something and it was nice to relax with a full belly.
I went back to sleep and got back up around noon. I decided I spent enough of the day indoors so I went to explore London.
London was amazing. After I dropped her off at the airport, I took the Tube to my Hostel, Clink 261. I won’t lie. The hostel was not a great place. The people working there were rude sometimes, and seemed like they were just there for a payday. They were not very welcoming nor was the atmosphere that great. The place was kind of dirty, and the rooms were small. But there were some up sides. There was this great guy working the front desk when I got in and he really helped. Check-in was at 11am, and I got in at 6:30am. He let me check in early into a room and that was greatly appreciated since I only got about 2 hours of sleep the night before. There was free continental breakfast, great showers, and the beds were very comfy.
After I woke up it was around 9am and went and got some free breakfast :-)
It was nice to eat something and it was nice to relax with a full belly.
I went back to sleep and got back up around noon. I decided I spent enough of the day indoors so I went to explore London.
It was a truly exhilarating experience.
I went around London, ON MY OWN. I took the tube, found SoHo, Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster Abby, Buckingham Palace, and a few other sights, that my camera sadly didn’t have battery life for.
It was a truly magnificent experience, to just go somewhere without a plan and find my way around it. I loved it. I just wish I could have done it with my friend.
Later that night I met up with the girls I met at Hatters Hostel (PROOF that you can meet good friends in Hostels!!) at Vapiano's. It was a really nice Italian restaurant. The food was great and reasonably priced. The only critique for it was it reminded me of a lunchroom, with seating that you have to find on yourself, and food you go up to order with a tray. I loved it though.
I went around London, ON MY OWN. I took the tube, found SoHo, Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster Abby, Buckingham Palace, and a few other sights, that my camera sadly didn’t have battery life for.
It was a truly magnificent experience, to just go somewhere without a plan and find my way around it. I loved it. I just wish I could have done it with my friend.
Later that night I met up with the girls I met at Hatters Hostel (PROOF that you can meet good friends in Hostels!!) at Vapiano's. It was a really nice Italian restaurant. The food was great and reasonably priced. The only critique for it was it reminded me of a lunchroom, with seating that you have to find on yourself, and food you go up to order with a tray. I loved it though.
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