london, stockholm

so london seems like FOREVER ago. in reality, we flew out on monday. merely a week ago. got into london fine, and immediately went to see the sights, starting with buckingham palace. the subway in london is so fantastic. but i was so dead on that tuesday, that we decided to let me take a nap in the park in the afternoon so that i could revive myself. well, about ten minutes after i lay down and closed my eyes, it started raining like you wouldn't believe. first, we hid under a tree in the hopes that it would pass... but it just got worse and worse and we ended up drenched and running for shelter. not a good start.

but it got better from there. after the rain (haha) we went to the Portrait Museum, which was fantastic. but it was starting to get late at that point, so we headed home after that and were in bed and asleep by 9. 2 hours before my 4 year-old cousin, haha.

the next day, we saw a bunch more of the sights. we ended up seeing a billion museums, all of which were fantastic. we saw the natural history museum, westminster abbey, the imperial war museum (a ton better than the name would have you believe!) and went to a couple of pubs for dinner. all in all, i can't remember all of the details anymore, except that it was fantastic. also got to see my good friend Shain and his girlfriend in london, which was a wicked treat.

friday was our goodbye to London. we had a flight at 6:30 the next morning, so we took off to the airport for the night. it was a lot more tiring than i thought it would be, but we survived and live to tell stories of it.



we arrived in stockholm at around noon on saturday, and promptly checked into our hostel, The Red Boat. it has a much more complicated name in swedish, and a website, but you'll have to look it up yourself if you really care. the hostel is really nice actually. very clean, and comfortable, but slightly on the pricey side... but everything is in stockholm, so no surprise there. stockholm has got to be one of the most picturesque cities in the world. it is very colourful, and has a beautiful river running through it. we are staying right by a bridge (on a boat) that takes you straight into the old part of town, which is very charming and beautiful. mostly we have been walking around exploring the pretty old town, but we also took a boat trip around the islands (stockholm is made up of many islands linked together by bridges), which was beautiful.


next up is brussels, belgium. we leave tomorrow. good beer and chocolate, at the very least!