Spring break is coming to an end or so says the two feet of freshly fallen snow. We had a good break, got some work done, and finalized some plans for the best summer ever!
I started off the week in New York City with my mom. We stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel (45th & Madison Ave) which made a perfect locale for shopping. And did we shop. When I got to the city all of my stuff fit in a duffel bag; when I left I needed my suitcase too. I now have a fabulous shoe collection complete with olive green rain boots and a red rain coat which will come in handy in London. (Take that evil lawyering professor, I can write transitions).
We bought our tickets to London and will be there for 6 days before heading to Nairobi. We’re staying at the Kensington Hotel Bayswater. Finding cheap accommodation in London is a nightmare. First, it is a city, therefore it’s expensive. Second, the dollar sucks against the pound making it even more expense. Third, their room classifications can make booking via a US service (priceline, orbitz, etc..) impossible. If you search for one room on cheaptickets, for example, you are likely to get a single room. Which means a room for one person. And then you have to go about trying to change the reservation, and when that doesn’t work you have to cancel it and start over again. The Kensington is in a great location, just north of Hyde Park and has some great pubs around it. Fancy a Pint?
Here’s what we are planning on doing so far in London:
o The obligatory hop on hop off open topped bus tour.
o The Tower of London
o Buckingham Palace (even though we won’t be able to go in)
o Parliament – I’m really bummed we won’t be able to get tickets to question hour with Blair (UK residents or people with connections only), but we are going to try and see question hour with a random cabinet member.
o Ride the Tube (I love public transportation. I probably have my mom to thanks for that. If I hadn’t been forced to take StarTran to and from school and such a young and impressionable age I might not be the public transport fan that I am today. Strike that, I’m surprised I was able to overcome the trauma of taking the public bus at all)
o See Othello at The Globe. (We’ve got the tickets already!!)
o Go on lots of fun walks, especially the evening ones. His and I are definitely going to do “Ghosts, Gaslight and Guiness”. Can you get any cooler than combining pub crawls and ghost walks. Me thinks not.
o Windsor Castle
o The London Eye
o And so much more that I don’t have time to list or link to. Let me know if you have any suggestions on what we should do, where we should eat, etc..
That’s it from us. School starts again and we have to go back to studying.
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