Europe: London/Bath/Oxford: Days 3-5

'ello Mates!

(All my pictures are at the end again- the events have **) 

Sorry about the delays- I've not been allotted any of the 30 free minutes, and on the night with free internet, I was too tired to write.

So anyway, Tuesday! We went on the London Eye first thing in the morning- beautiful views. A half hour of picture taking :) **

Then we went…. to Kings Cross Station! We found the monument for Platform 9 3/4 and took pictures :) **

Then we exited the tube and went to the British Library. Too boring to give a picture.

Yeah.

So then we went to the Royal Opera House, where the Royal Ballet performs, and took a picture with the ballerina statue :) ** 

Then we went to High Tea at the Lounge- sandwiches, scones, and desserts :) 

The British Museum was…. boring…. I'm also not a museum person, at all. We went to Harrods (HUGE department store, the size of Park City but ONE store, for all you Lancastrians) and shopped as well.

That was really all we did that day. So then- Wednesday.

We left right away from the hotel and went to get a car from the airport. Then we drove (I slept in the car :D) the two-ish hours to Windsor. The town was quite beautiful and quaint- we had British pizza, which is not quite as, uh, delicious… as American pizza we found… and Tango, which is the British version of Fanta- except they had green apple! So good!

Then we went and toured Windsor Castle. **

We left and drove to……. Highclere Castle, where they filmed DOWNTON ABBEY!!! We trespassed to get a picture and I popped on the zoom lens :D **

We drove many more hours to Stonehenge and found a fence around it and you had to pay 20 pounds- which is 30 dollars- to get in twenty feet closer… so we stood outside the fence and snapped some pictures. We were there for a total of about three minutes. No kidding. **

Then we drove the rest of the way to Bath, had dinner, and went to the hotel.

Next day! Thursday.

We toured the Roman Baths, went shopping, and saw Bath Abbey.

We had "cream tea" in which I had a 

" chocolate milkshake", which consisted of chocolate milk with a little dollop of ice cream floating in it! Not what a milkshake is in America, I ASSURE you. 

Very nice town. 

We drove to Oxford and found our hotel, then drove into Abingdon for a nice… dinner. I was sick and therefore did not eat much :( It was delicious and I wish I could have, though!

The next day, Friday, we went to Mcdonalds for breakfast- porridge is oatmeal as we found! Then we drove into Oxford and spent the entire wet, rainy, FREEZING day touring the town. Not very nice AT ALL. Terrible. But we had a marvelous three course dinner at a pub- we loitered there for three whole hours!

Then we went back to the hotel and attempted to find a good British show- but ended up watching 5 USA. We're not original at all.

Saturday, we woke up and had croissants and muffins from Tesco, the British supermarket, and then flew from Heathrow Airport to Paris, France. Our time in England is over, but we are coming to something MUCH better. Maybe.

Yeah. So when we got there, we took the subway (tube no longer) to our hotel and checked in. It looked very scary in the hallway, but the room is nicer than the other ones!

Oh, and did I mention? We have FREE WIFI now!!!! Hurrah! Yeah.

Cheers! (or should I say au revoir? or however you spell that…)

~Ashley

Pictures are here!!! :D