The lack of internet has kept me from posting on my trip but so far this trip has just been an amazing experience. To see so many things in person that you had only previously seen before in movies or history books is really something hard to put into words. I have been overwhelmed by the kindness of everyone we have met along the way.
After leaving London we spent a few days in Salisbury England, to see Stonehenge and we made a new friend named Tobias, who was staying in the same hostel room with us. Tobias was from Denmark and had been traveling for the last month or so trying to figure out where he wanted to live. It was nice to get to know him for a few days and interesting to hear about Denmark.
We then left Salisbury and traveled by train to Luton to catch a plane to Spain. After traveling for about 12hrs straight and riding on just about every form of transportation imaginable (plane, train and automobile), we landed in Spain only to realize we had missed out train. By that time it was already 12 midnight and our only option was to spend the night on the street in front of the train station… AMAZING! I had never spent the night on the street but it was kinda fun. There where a lot of other foreigners that had missed there trains as well so we had plenty of company. That pretty much sums up the last 5 days, we are currently in Barcelona and it is raining outside. Hopefully we will have better weather the next couple of days we are here.
London:
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Meet Jeff and Eric, my companions on my European journey.
Day 1:
Was spent mostly traveling on a plane, I didn’t freak out as much as I thought I was going to. I had never been on a plane longer than 6 hours, so I swear I was going to end up running down the aisle screaming “We’re all going to die, this plane is going down!” but I spent most of my time just watching movies. Confessions of a shopaholic is a horrible movie by the way.
Day 2:
After the long plane ride and lack of sleep (about 24 hrs of no sleep), Eric and I headed straight to downtown London and met up with my old roommate Josh Peters (see photo). Josh lives in London now and works for a church called Oasis in the downtown area. He was gracious enough to let us sleep for a couple of hours on some big bean bags and then gave us a quick tour of the city once he got off of work. We spent most of the afternoon walking around snapping photos and and asking Josh every question imaginable about London. He has done it all before so the quick tour we got was pretty pro.
London is a wonderful place, it’s like everything that I had imagined it to be. There are so many people riding around on bikes and scooters, public transportation is amazing. Cars have the right of way so you have to be carful not to get hit when walking across the street, they don’t stop for anything. There are fixed gear bikes everywhere! I was kinda surprised by that. Josh says that London is mostly flat so you can get around on a bike really easily, as long as you don’t get run over of course. After our tour we headed to Josh’s place for dinner. Josh was gracious enough to let us crash at his place and spend the weekend at his house. He has a great place with four other guys in a small town called Camberwell, about a 5 minute train ride from downtown.
Tomorrow we meet up with Jeff who broke off for the day to visit his daughter who lives in England. I think we are going to head downtown again and spend the day being tourist.
*Eric Barrios
*Josh Peters
