Bumming Around England

We have had a wonderful past 5 days in England, it has been the perfect start to our trip. We have been able to get acclimated to life abroad and get into the groove as travel partners. It has also been nice to start in an English speaking country and one that I am familiar with....

While in England, which should be one of the most expensive places we are going, we managed to only spend 104.02 pounds each, which is $168.58, over 5 days! And we still met all our basic human needs and still saw everything we wanted to see.we have found these meal deals at the local grocery stores... 2.50 pounds for a sandwich, fruit and a drink. We are very excited about how great we were with money while here.

Sunday we had a relaxing day at The Temple, my uncles country home in Stoke by Nayland. We slept in, went for a 2 hour walk through the country side with my uncle Veere, had a delicious lunch and spent time with Eddy and Cosmo (David's two sons). The country side of England is so beautiful and all the villages are incredibly charming.

Sunday night we headed back to London. Uncle Veere showed us his new home which they are moving into this week.

Monday we were so productive! We spent the bulk of the day hopping on and off busses seeing all the historic and famous parts of London. Jorie and I had a blast in Hamley's, the largest toy store in England, we spent almost an hour exploring all 7 floors. We had lunch at a classic pub where Jorie was excited to have fish and chips. The National Gallery, London's (free, yeah) art museum, was so impressive. We both were overwhelmed by the volume of art and in amazement by the depth of their collection. Not only did some of the art date back to the 1300's but we also saw some of the worlds most spectacular and famous pieces of art... Monet, Degas, Seurat and van Gogh were some of the artists work we saw. We were lost in the museum for hours but could have stayed there for days longer. St. Paul's Cathedral, which we went to after the gallery, was a piece of art it self. The cathedral is so grand and had incredible detail. We saw tons more throughout the day but these were the most notable and the places we spent the most time.

After a long day of walking around the city, we went to Billy Elliot the play. We had front row seats, which were surprisingly the cheapest tickets. It was awesome to be so close because it felt like we were in the play. It was a great play, the kids were so talented!

Today, it was extremely rainy and gross, Jorie said it was similar weather to hurricane Irene. We explored Notting Hill and went into some great shops.

Jorie's sneakers, flip-flops, and water bottle all went missing today, which was our first big glitch. We search everywhere but couldn't find them. But we did find an old pair of Cosmo's that were being thrown out, they fit Jorie perfect! Bumming around Europe on Cosmo's shoe string!

The rest of our day has been consumed by travel... A taxi to the bus station, a bus to Standstead, and now flying to Prague.

That's all for now....
Photos to follow, once we master the iPad and foreign Internet.

P.S. London is the leader of attractive men thus far...