This is going to be a fairly short note from me, I have lots of things
to do and I'm going slightly crazy thinking of everything I have to get
done before spring break next week!
This past week, as you know, my boyfriend visited me from Rome. After
arriving in London from Abergavenny on Monday, I took him on some tours of
London, showed him around all of the famous sights, took in some of the
famous food! On tuesday, I left John at the British Museum so that I
could go to class (my school is right next to the BM), and Wednesday, I
took him to Dickens' House, Wagamama's (a famous Japanese restaurant),
Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Big Ben & Houses of
Parliament, Westminster Abbey, St. James' Park, and Buckingham Palace,
which is quite a nice place to live I think! Thursday, he took a tour of
London via bus and boat while I attended class...unfortunately, he had
some tube problems on the way home...
On Friday John and I hooked up with one of his friends from Rome and the
three of us went up to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace.
Because I had already been there, I waited outside while they toured his
birthhome, but then the three of us went together to Nash's House, another
Shakespeare home (where we managed to inadvertantly steal some guidebooks
to the home), and then to Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare is buried
today. It was quite nice! We ate at a pub for dinner (John's treat)
before getting his friend back to the evening train to London. John & I
spent the night in Stratford-upon-Avon before returning home Saturday and
doing some shopping and walking around from Paddington to Regent's Park
and Camden Town.
Sunday I brought John to the airport to see him off...once again,
goodbyes are so sad. We're going to see each other in a few short weeks
when I end my back-packing through Europe, but I still miss him. :(
I spent the rest of the day trying to plan my back-packing through Europe
adventure with my friend..unfortunately, the guide book stating that one
doesn't need reservations at hostels is completely wrong and we're finding
ourselves trying to make last-minute reservations when most places are
already booked. To boot there are language differences. Yuck.
Anyway, as you can tell I'm under a little bit of stress trying to get
all of this sorted out. The good news this week is that my friend Jane
will be coming to visit Wednesday for a week here, I'm quite looking
forward to seeing her! I'm hoping to be moving to a new flat by next week
(to get away from this jerk of a pot-smoking surfer dude: we do live in a
non-smoking flat and he certainly doesn't seem to care!), when I do, I'll
send along my address! Back to studying for now, talk to you soon!
|
