Bussing around London

So yesterday we got up and headed over to London Bridge for our bus tour. It was definitely the right way to see London. Even our British roommates at the hostel suggested taking a bus tour to see the city.

On the topic of roommates, we had some pretty awesome ones. One was a man named Steve, who is in London visiting his father, who is sick. Steve has the type of life I'd love to have some day. He retired young and has spent the last 10 years traveling the world and studying languages. Two years in China, two in India, one in Indonesia, months in Russia, all around Central America... I never thought I'd get to compare Chinese, Russian, and Indonesian grammar, all with the same person. The other really cool person was Henna. She's been in London a few years, but lived in India beforehand. She was very friendly and also very interested in travel.

As for the bus tour, it was pretty great. We started off at Tower Bridge and went in this big loop heading west southwest and then north and back around to the east. We went to Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the Green Park, Hyde Park, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Temple Church, and the Royal Courts of Justice. There were people protesting outside of Parliament, though we weren't quite sure what it was they were objecting to. Westminster Abbey and the Royal Courts of Justice were particularly beautiful. After the bus tour we went on a walking tour. It was really interesting to get to learn the historical background of some areas.

Time's up.