London

The last stop this time around was London. In true Therin style, I almost missed my flight and almost had some more time in London, haha. But I'm on the way home and feeling like London was the perfect end to this semester abroad.

We arrived late, took advantage of the cheap drinks at our hostel bar, and watched England play Russia in the Euro 2016 match. Europeans love football (really, really love soccer) so it blast drinking with a bunch of English people. And English people drink a lot, haha. 

Foster's is the world's worst beer. I don't know why everyone complains about Heineken.

The next day, we saw the sights, unsure of what to do on the Queen's Birthday celebration, since a lot was closed. We ran into some American Ex Pats playing beer pong along the river and we made friends and ended up joining their boat party and getting our sight seeing in. It's pretty hilarious, but it was so much fun. The next day, we went on the free walking tour, with a wonderful guide, and went to the natural history museum in London. On our tour, we got to see Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and ALL the sights. 

The iconic London photo. That's Big Ben in the back.

"So what is this boat party for? "Freedom." It felt wrong celebrating America on the Queen's b-day but hey.

Shakespeare's Globe

From our lil boat party :)

Buckingham Palace

Westminster Abbey

At the Tower of London

 

We spent our last day touring the Tower of London, the old, medieval castle and fortress of the city. We had this hilarious guide, a Beefeater, as they're called who gave of the history of the Tower and the history of the Kings and Queens of England. We saw the spit where Henry the 8th had two of his wives beheaded, so that was pretty interesting. This was my favorite part of our time in London, the history here was filled with stories.

After the tower, we headed to the Camden Lock Markets. It was the weird, hispter part of London with all kinds of food vendors, flea market stalls. and people selling literally everything. There was a ton of cool stuff to dig through. For our last night, we went to Wicked on the West End, and ended the night with a bottle of wine.

I can't believe my semester and time in Europe has already come to an end. It went so fast. Now for 12 hours of traveling and getting back to Nebraska!