Hello Hello London

So yeah... on September 6th we woke up in dublin, went to the Guinness Storehouse where a lot of old women gave us their beers for free (I really think they were trying to get us drunk). Lance was very happy about it, so I also offered him my beer jejeje. After the Guinness Storehouse we headed to the airport.

Once in the airport we proceeded to look for our tickets and our adventures started… The prices we saw on the internet weren’t valid if we were buying the tickets on the same day… we started looking for options and we couldn’t find anything cheap so we started getting a little stressed. We asked around and this lady recommended us to go to the BMI stand. This line was a lot cheaper than the other ones, so we bought those tickets.

The flight was OK. I had a little 2 years old kid sitting right in front of me and another 2 years old kid sitting right behind me kicking me during the entire flight. I was starting to get a little mad, but then I thought: Hey! Let’s spread the love! Kids know how to love, so if the kid behind me is kicking me, then maybe I should kick the kid in front of me to show him that even though he’s crying all the time I still love him!!” luckily for me the flight attendant announced that we were starting our landing (I say luckily because later on that night I found out that hitting kids while on the airplane is a crime… jejeje). Anyway…

We got to London at 11:30 pm. Once there we asked a bunch of people how to get to Central London and each person told us something different… they all agreed though that the subway and the train were closing in at 1:00am… we thought that wouldn’t be a problem, we still have an hour and a half. Lance and I literally ran for one hour and fifteen minutes with our very heavy bags. After running for the third time (I swear! The third time!) in front of these workers they asked us of we were lost, still with a little of sarcasm I told them that not at all, that I just love the airport so much that there’s where I go out to run. They kindly told us that we were screwed… yet they told us where the subway was just in case. These guys actually knew what they were saying! We ran over there and the police officer in the entrance told us that the last train had left 20 seconds ago… 20 seconds!!!!! We were ready to sleep in the airport. But no!


As we are walking away they officer tells us that we can either get a cab, or maybe a bus. He told us how to get to the bus station and after a 30 minutes wait we finally got in the bus. It took us about an hour and a half to get to Central London. You guys know that I’m smart, so yeah, in Dublin I made reservations for a hostel in London, so we had a place where to crash.

We made it to the hostel a little after 2:00 am. We checked in, they gave us our blankets for the beds and we went to the rooms. In the room we found these 2 girls sleeping (remember we rent beds, not rooms). We dropped our stuff and went out for a walk and to get something to eat. We got back to the hotel at about 4:00am.

The day after we woke up a little late, took a shower and left the stinky place. We walked for a while and then we decided to pay for one of those tour busses. We rode the bus for a while and then we came back to the hotel to check out if our Eurail tickets were at Melissa Nobile’s house (a friend from back home). DHL delivered the tickets, but Meli wasn’t home, so they didn’t leave them. After talking to Meli for a while she told me not to worry (like ten thousand times), that she would call early in the morning to have them bring them first thing in the day, or else she would go pick them up. Please everybody, a big big applause to Melissa Nobile for saving our butts! Thank you once again Meli! We went to our room to get some stuff and we found 2 new girls (the other ones had left early in the morning) sleeping.

In the night we went to a pub in South Kensington with a girl Lance knows from Boston and her friends. The pub was nice and there was live music, but there was a problem. All the girls were Americans and all the guys were Irish. I’m cool with them, but this is London! Where are the British accents?? Anyway, even with all the wasted people I had a good time.

We came back to the area where we’re staying, had a delicious dinner at Mc Donald’s at 2 am, we walked around for a bit and then we went back to the hostel. Here we stayed downstairs talking to a lot of people that we met on our way in. When we finally made it upstairs we found the 2 girls awake. We introduced ourselves, talked for a bit and then I left to call my lovely parents and my beautiful girlfriend. What a great son and boyfriend I am!

Today we woke up early to take advantage of the day. We got into the bus again (we had a 24 hour pass) and we hopped off and on depending on what we wanted to see. Then we had a short cruise along the Thames River that was included with our tour.

Now I’m at an internet place figuring out where are we going next and what’s the cheapest way to get there, but I can’t find a cheap way… We might end up staying here until the 10th (the day our train pass starts) so we can take the train from here to Brussels.

I think this is long enough. Right now I’m going to Meli’s hostel to pick up our passes, then we’re going to a show and who knows what else!

I kick you all ( in other words I share my love with you) and please once again a huge round of applause to Meli for saving my butt, to my parents because I wouldn’t be here without them and to Ari just cuz she’s pretty, right beautiful?

By the way, I ow you pictures from London because I'm at the internet place and not with Lance's computer.

Cheers mates!

Fernando

Ari do you think this one was also corny? Jejeje