Hi hi! This is sooo long overdue, but here it is!! Last weekend my roommate Rylee and I went over to London for the weekend! Monday was St. Brigid's day here in Ireland so we didn't have school!
This was my first time flying on RyanAir and it was actually smooth sailing!! The flight was only about an hour which is super nice! We landed pretty late and then had an hour drive to the hotel so we just crashed!
On Sunday, we spent the whole day being tourists!! We first walked down to Buckingham Palace. It's huge!! There was also about a million people there because, without knowing it, we got there during the changing of the guards! On our way there we stubbled upon Trafalgar Square, which is so pretty!!
After Buckingham Palace we got some breakfast and made our way over to see Westminster Abbey and Big Ben! Fun fact: Big Ben is actually called The Elizabeth Tower! (no idea why it's called Big Ben) Then we walked along the river for awhile and, because of all the walking, became obviously very thirsty. Stopped off at a few pubs before having dinner and spending the rest of the evening at O'Neill's!
We got a tiny bit of a later start on Monday, but just kept exploring! Went down to The Tower Bridge, which is actually super cool. You can take a tour up to the top of the bridge but Rylee and I decided that with our combined fear of heights and urges to throw our phones off of tall things (don't ask because idk), that maybe that wasn't the best idea! We were now on the other side of River Thames so we got to explore on that side of town as well. We quickly stopped by Shakespeare's Globe. If I am going to be completely honest it's pretty underwhelming. Neither of us are huge Shakespeare fans anyway hahaha!
We then went on the London Eye! We had scheduled to go during "sunset" but it was actually a super cloudy day. The thought was there! It was sooo cool up there! We got to see all the way up and down the river, as well as another angle of Big Ben and the rest of the city!
Didn't do much the rest of the evening. Just got dinner and went back to the hotel to chill before our flight home in the morning!
That is pretty much all to report for week 4!!! I promise the next post won't be so delayed!!
Byeeee!!