The Center of Time

I went to Greenwich, which is the place where time is based off.  As in GMT is the starting point and the US's east coast is 5 hours behind.  It was a neat little town, with beautiful views, although at this point, I feel like everywhere in Europe has a charm and beauty to it. We went on a tour while were there and got to see where the 2012 (I think) olympics are going to be held as well as old historic buildings, one of which used to be the queen's house.  We had lunch in a pub,which is becoming fairly common, but which I always enjoy.  I will post pictures soon.

I am pretty used to finding my way around London now, its still very intimidating, but I think I have the underground figured out and can now go around by myself without a problem.  I love the location of our apartment, as there are a 1000 stores and restaurants right outside our flat.  There is this amazing waffle place a block over which is delicious. It took us 3 days to clean our apartment, it was nasty, apparently standards of cleanliness in the US is different than Europe.  Whoever lived in our apartment before us clearly was not English because the tv is in some Indian or Middle Eastern language and we have not been able to get it out yet.  The landlord is supposed to be sending someone over today, we can only hope.

We have a travel seminar tonight which I am super excited about because it will allow me to start planning trips outside of London. I already plan on signing up for a trip to Istanbul. So excited.


London Lessons Learned:

1.  if you are waiting in line, the line is called a que
2. you MUST stand on the right side of escalators or will get run over by Londoners
3. Washing machines are often in the kitchen
4. holding your cell phone in your hand while talking to someone, even if you are not on it is rude
5. apparently americans can be identified by their northface jackets and boat shoes
6. there are more than 20,000 americans studying in london this semester
7.wait service at restaurants is normally slow
8. their internet is slower than ours
9. london is expensive!