in europe safely

london at night


tower of london


london bridge is NOT falling down


hi everyone!

just wanted to write you a quick up date on apryl and my travels in europe thus far. we landed in gatwick... a rural area just south of london. the flight was good we had pasta for the onflight meal. we caught a coach bus to victoria station in london... where we spoke with a hostel booking agent who arranged our hostel. it's on 71 vincent st... called the wellington... it looks like hogwarths in harry potter... accross from the place is this great big playing field... i'd like to imagine that's where the quidish matches are played! haha

we are walking distance from the Thames, Big Ben, The London Eye, County Hall, Parlimentry buildings, Westminister Abby, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus... how do i know? cuz that's where we walked to yesterday! we saw a lot! we had my birthday dinner in chinatown.

big ben is really bigger than you think


eye of london... we're next


the eye of london... the neighbouring pod people


look at this view from the london eye


little people below


piccadilly circus


It was a scorcher of a day yesterday! we were sooo surprised at how hot and sunny it was... like toronto during the heat wave! today (sept 1) is much better. it's a little cloudier, windier and cooler. we've checked out of the hostel already and plan on taking the tube to liverpool street station and hope that they have lockers there to leave the majority of our bags as we explore that area of london for the day. we'll be catching a flight to barcelona tonight at around 4am (check in, 6am take off)... weeee!

so let me just say.... the british men are cute! well you've got such a range the ones in suits and briefcases walking around the parlimentry buildings are cute.. and then the ones around the touristy spots are cute tooo... hard to tell if they are british until they start speaking haha. we were walking around the london eye... there is this building called the county hall and inside is a saatchi gallery... they have these guys trying to draw people into the gallery to see the exhibit of paintings... so as we were walking by one of them says to apryl "it's your birthday today!" and apryl replies "no it's not but it's her birthday" pointing to me! so we start laughing and talking. His name is chris and his friend's name is birch... they were art students.. anyways... chris tells us a cute joke and this is what i'm gonna leave this email with...

"what did the shy pebble say?"



"i wish i was a little bolder"

saatchi gallery guys... birch me and chris!


love charlene

posted by :: sweet layer :: @ 12:53 AM