Ramblin': London: Part 1

This summer, I made my way to England with my ramblin' compatriot Tebben to visit with friends from our gap year (Tebben in Ecuador, mine in Cambodia) and explore this exciting and beautiful country. We went in mid-May for two weeks and had almost perfectly sunny weather everyday (very much contrasting the dreary English weather stereotype- guess we got lucky!). Since there is a lot to blog about, I decided to split the trip up into parts by city, starting with our first adventure in London. We only stayed for a two days upon arrival to England, but they were fun filled and we covered a lot of ground. We came back to London after exploring Oxford and Bath, so I'll make the next post Part 2, when we came back to London for another week, then parted ways, as I continued on to Germany and the Netherlands.

Also, some of the photos were taken by Tebb. You can check out her photo website at http://www.tebbenworld.com/Foto_Phables/Zoning.html. I'll put a provided by under her photos. She wants to be (but really, already is) a photojournalist and takes some way cool shots.

On the way to St. Peter's Cathedral with Lizzy, who I met in the wilds of Cambodia, who generously let us stay with her the first night :-).

My first proper english tea on the steps of St. Peters- black tea and milk, yum! I kind of got addicted over the course of two weeks . . .

Tate Modern- way cool exhibits.

. . . And way depressing/funny, too.

So much construction was going on for the upcoming Olympics 2012!

Yeah it is.

Cool book sale we found. One of Tebb's photos.

Double Decker bus! T's photo.

Feet :-). T's photo.

I have an addiction to tree hugging. T's photo.

Garden near Lizzy and Julian's (Lizzy's boyfriend) apartment in Richmond- so pretty! T's photo.

Tebb should have gotten it for the Royal Wedding- she would have fit right in.

The shard a.k.a. the ugliest creation known to man, according to Alex (Tebb's friend from her Ecuador trip). Also, the shard is supposed to be the largest building in London upon it's completion.

View from the top of a staircase at Kings College. It was a beautiful campus and Alex snuck us into the science building ("we're students we swear, just forgot the IDs" *cough cough*) and we saw preserved samples of human diseases- from deformed fetuses to lung cancer to giant penises- it was pretty cool and totally old school as they were in jars along old wooden shelves- it was like something you would see in an 18th century lab.

London Bridge.

Tebb and Alex in the underground.

Picadilly Circus.

We went to St. James Park for the afternoon before we heading to the bus station. It was a beautiful day and everyone wanted to enjoy it- especially these people who brought out their bean bag chairs!