London

We woke up bright and early the following day to catch the Eurostar back to London. We went to the hostel (Hillspring Lodge), with a quick stop for some fish and chips:

 It was...very fried. Not really good or bad, just kind of there. Bryan enjoyed it more than I did.

This was Bryan's first experience with a hostel, and he was quite nervous. However, we were staying in a pretty upscale one, and we were able to get a private room (rather than a dorm) for the first two nights. It was a very nice place- cheaper than hotels and actually had many amenities that hotels in London don't (free breakfast!).

We had a pretty lazy day and killed time until the evening, when we decided to do a pub crawl around Camden Town. I had never done anything like this before, and it was actually pretty fun. Lots of drinking, of course. Too many Jaegerbombs, which I had previously thought was mostly a New Jersey/New York thing. We met some cool folks from all over the world and got to go to some pretty neat places. I didn't bring my camera, so no pictures for that.

EDIT: Some pictures from Bryan! Here is the epic set-up of Jaegerbombs, with our pub crawl guide (the guy with the mullet):

And here is our pub crawl group, toward the end of the long night:

We spent the following day doing our London sight-seeing. We once again took one of those hop-on hop-off buses (despite my protests), which let us see the whole city. We started off at Marble Arch:

Trafalgar Square:

Royal Courts of Justice:

St. Paul's Cathedral:

Tower Bridge:

Big Ben:

London Eye at sunset:

Skyline:

In the evening we decided to do a walking tour around the old part of London, focusing on Jack the Ripper and other creepy things. We started off near the Tower of London, which looks awesome at night:

 

All Hallows Church:

 

The tour was pretty neat. Unfortunately, WWII destroyed most of the old part of the city, so it's mainly new buildings for businesses and whatnot. It was still cool to hear all of the stories of what took place there. and see some of what's left.

Obviously I have many more pictures than I have posted here. They will eventually be uploaded to Facebook, and I'll put a link to the album here. Also, I have much higher quality versions of all photos, if anyone wants them.

Next (and final!) post: day-trip to Oxford