Since I’m a little delayed, this post will (hopefully) go up by email!!
I’m on the ship now, but let me search way back into my little brain and think about Belfast and London. Also, forgive any typos. I won’t be able to edit this!
Sarah & I are cursed. & we accept this fact. It will probably rain every time either of us get anywhere. Ever. So, of course, it was raining in Belfast. BUT that didn’t stop us! The day we got there we went to the most amazing market! Nothing like the markets in Italy, where we were heckled & called at, this market was straight from a movie. The most incredible food, unique, handmade crafts, and THE MOST DELICIOUS PEANUT BUTTER BALLS IVE EVER HAD. We were off to a good start in Northern Ireland, despite the weather.
The next day, the weather got worse. And because the weather is intent on killing our dreams, coasteering (aka cliff jumping) was cancelled. Boooo. So now, we booked a last minute your to Giant’s Causeway. IT WAS AWESOME. The weather never improved, but the causeway was such a sight to see. After exploring the basalt columns and getting sea foam sprayed at is violently, Sarah & I enjoyed a Guinness in an Irish pub while we warned up a bit.
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As bad as the weather was, Belfast was still hard to leave.
But it was off to London!! We got a London Pass and saw the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, The Calvary Museum, and a million more places. We took a walking tour, full of awesome little stories (Sandman’s tour. Gary was great!), a river boat tour, and a Grim Reaper Tour, which was packed full of creepy ghost stories and tales of Jack the Ripper. #gallery-240-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-240-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-240-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-240-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
Then, after two final days, Sarah had to leave. Obviously, I cried in the lobby of my hostel. Then, I grabbed my bags (by now my actual Semester at Sea luggage has arrived…) and lugged over 100lbs of luggage to the train station. Oh but wait! It wouldn’t be a true story unless I mentioned that I got lost. Carrying 100lbs of luggage, I wandered around north London. Fun times. I finally found a nice old man to help……. Then he started flirting with me. Then he asked me to get drinks (with 100lbs of luggage? Seriously dude?) and when I declines, he was upset, but pointed me toward the train. HAHAHA EXCEPT THERE WAS NO TRAIN THAT DIRECTION AND I WALKED THE WRONG WAY. jerk. Long story short it to me 3 hours to get to me next stop. Which was also in London. HA. But finally I arrived. And realized I had no idea what I was doing. I don’t know ANYONE here. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nil.
Oneeee is the loneliest number…..
But TADA I MADE FRIENDS. We walked around London, got some food, went on a pub crawl, and headed to the hotel the next day.
This ends my time in London. Apologies for the brevity of this post, but the next one will be significantly longer and maybe, hopefully, more interesting.
Again, PLEASE email me! It’s the only contact I have with the outside world…
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