Archive: London

Natassia's EuroTip Number One: If you are taller than 5'2 do not use Air Transat. Unless you want intense suffering. 

2: If airports offer shuttles to your hostel/hotel. Take it. It's worth every penny and less aggravation. :D 

3: Airplane food still blows. 

Addendum 

4: FREE tours are AWESOME. Well by free I mean theres no fee outright, but you are expected or hoped to give tips to the tour guide. But that means that they work hard for their tips. 

5: There are a lot of loud loud stupid people in hostels... Bring ear plugs if you are a light sleeper. 

6:St Christophers Inn is great. Cannot complain so far. Except that someone (points at self) shorted the fuse, and they haven't been able to fix it yet, so my first day pictures will blow. 

7: Marmite (Yeast Extract) is disgusting. 

8: Pimms Cocktail is GREAT :D 

9: Warwick Castle is GREAT :D BEAUTIFUL views. As well as the whole medieval thing. 

10: Oxford and Stratford upon Avon are really nice towns and worth the visit. Though iwth Stratford basically its just the whole Shakespeare house thing. But the FUDGE is GREAT :D 

11: Buy good walking shoes. 

12: You can drink pretty much anywhere. 

13: You are always within 2 feet of an Aussie. 

14: Everything shuts down at like 9pm save for pubs (which usually close at midnight) unless they are clubs. They close at like 5am (sweet). 

15: There are always ignorant Americans around saying stupid things. Though quite honestly they are often our best ally, because of the whole North American thing. 

16: Sunday= Most things are closed. 

17:Sometimes it's lonely travelling alone, but you will usually find a friendly face. Though sometimes it takes a while to find one. 

18: A lot of the meat in London seems rather gross and substandard. 

19: Oyster card for the London underground is a must have, though sometimes the travelling day pass is much better it really depends on how far you intend to go in one day. The underground is broken into Zones and I mostly stay within Zone 1 and therefore it doesn't cost me much. 

20: The offical England Dance makes me giggle. A bunch of old men hitting sticks against other sticks.