London Log: July 31st - August 8th
This post is gonna be a bit lengthy but it’s here for me mostly. The post will be going through short little things of what I did each day I got to enjoy London on my own. As well as visiting two of my friends and the adventures I had with them!
Day 1: Left Boston on the 31st around 7:45 PM got into Heathrow London around 6:40, landed a bit early. Flight was good, took a sleeping pill and passed out. YAY! customs took a good amount of time which kind of sucked. Started off with some phone issues but all good. Navigated my way to my hotel with some help of the guy working at the Heathrow express kiosk thing. Thanks to that guy! Got to the hotel I stayed at near Regents Park. Unpacked and then took a nap. Went and walked around Regents, checked out the area, debated on going to Harrods. Got my oyster card for the week and headed out. Harrods - Large, Confusing, Expensive, the food and toy kingdoms were the best part. Still cool to see a place set up the way it was. Went home, watched lets plays and crashed.
Day 2: Get up for breakfast. I went to Camden town, or I tried to at first but ended up going the wrong way... Oops. Had to grab an umbrella from a shop because I’m an idiot and didn’t pack one. Reassessed and reorganized myself and went to Camden Town. Camden Town was awesome and my favorite part of this trip. The market is busy, loud, crowded, but full of awesome shops and awesome food. If you have a chance and don’t mind large crowds, check it out. if you do, go during the week. It’ll be busy but not nearly as crazy as the weekend. Look at all the cool artists booths and all the cool punk and goth stuff that’s around there. I need to go back there and hang out and sketch and shit around cause. super inspirational! Also side note I stumbled into a fetish shop over there and ended up talking to the owner for a while. If you want the full story on that one, message me. He was super super cool and super super nice. I also went to see Big Ben and take a dumb little video for my roommate that I may or may not end up posting in the next few posts to come. Decided to save the London Eye for another day. My nightly routine was the same, Let’s Plays and sleeping haha.
Day 3: Breakfast. I spent most of the day wondering around and ended up walking back to London Eye, Big Ben area once I realized how fucking nice it ended up being that day. It was a bit cloudy but a definite improvement from the day before so went and did the London Eye. Took a lovely little time laps of the swing ride thats over there from the Eye. After that I kind of just wandered about, ended up in the Piccadilly area, also ended up finding all the gay stuff which was wonderful and I wanted to check out more shops and stuff in that area but didn’t get to which is fine, next time. I got asked directions by two lovely people who thought I was from the area, they learned I clearly wasn’t the second I opened my Bostonian mouth. I got blank stares and then an American? to which I replied yeahhhhhh... sorry. Had great Ramen that night though!
Day 4: I took the 2 o’clock train to the midlands to go hang out with someone. Before I talk about this I’ll discuss how I fucking got to the platform about 15 minutes before boarding to realize 5 minutes before boarding that I was a the actual wrong platform. I sat at the international platform for 10 minutes instead of the East Midlands platform. Quickly realized I fucked up and ran up to the correct platform. Got on and took my train. My phone didn’t have any form of connection for a while so wasn’t able to let them know I was almost there until I was 10 minutes away, and told them I thought I was there until I read what stop we were at... Oops. Pull up to my stop and see @jackdarcy‘s wonderful mug. Greet him with a large hug and headed to his to meet the fish, the cats, and the fam. See the work place. Spent the night there, hung out, laughed over Trixie Matel and Katya and some let’s plays. We did a good amount this day actually which included getting carded at an ASDA and then needing to leave because someone didn’t have their ID, spoiler alert! wasn’t me. Ate some steak, drank a little, had a lovely little time.
Day 5: Back to London with Kyle. Got in, dropped our stuff at the Hotel, dragged in to see Harrods. We walked fucking everywhere btw. Once we got there I wanted to explore and dick around for a bit but we didn’t end up doing that cause I was exhausted, so we turned around and went back to the hotel. We walked through Hyde’s Park which was lovely. We hunted for some pokemon. We got KFC. We stopped at tesco got some liquor. Had a night of pepsi max, cigs, vodka, and Broad City. An overall absolutely lovely time, one of my favorite nights honestly. Company was great, just a good night.
Day 6: Hanging with Kyle day 3. What did we do this day? I dragged him to Camden town. I figured it’d be a place to enjoy and show him since he’d never been and it was my favorite place to be. Also forced him to watch me aimlessly shop for gifts for my family. That was fun. Forgot when i first went it was tuesday, it was now saturday and EVERYONE and their mom was there. So lots of people. But got my shopping done, got burger king had a good time. That night I took Kyle out for sushi, as a birthday date thing? Idk. I got all fancy for fun and we went. We split a course designed for one person but it worked out perfectly between us. The food was great. It was nice to kind of just sit and talk and eat with someone for a bit. Had another night of broad city, cigs, and pepsi max.
Day 7: Woke up and kicked Kyle out. But not before we watched two episodes of Broad City and went out for a smoke. After we parted ways, I went to Epping to meet up with my friend Aurora and go to the Cliffs of Dover. Took picks had some fun ate at the cafe, grabbed my last gift I needed to get. Then got driven back to the train, I wanted to go to a candy shop but traffic was absolute shit for whatever reason and never got a chance to, but she said she’ll send me some in the mail soon.
Day 8: HOME! Woke up super early to make sure I made the trains and the plane. Got to Terminal, 2 hr delay. Get in to Boston 15 minutes hold. Then another 15 minutes hold. Finally, customs and then to my apartment. Unpacked swung over to my new place to talk with my new roomie for a hot sec. Then back to my apartment. And finally I’m here, at my home home in southern mass for the day for a retinal exam!
Thats it for this post I’ll be posting more about this stuff later though! :)
