{"id":926,"date":"2011-11-06T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2013-09-15T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T00:00:02","slug":"71099-london-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"7\/10\/99 “London Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is a continuation of my travel diary from the summer of 1999, when Steven and I had the opportunity to go to Europe. In case y’all are wondering (since my 19 year old self was wondering) the plane we flew on was a Boeing 777. It felt safe enough. I still don’t like planes. — Present-day Carrie]<\/em><\/p>\n

On a bus going to who-knows-where. Neat little houses everywhere, very quaint. Okies are also on this bus (from Oklahoma). Haven’t met up w\/ Ganstas (L.A.) & Taters (Idaho) yet.* Didn’t sleep at all on the plane. Stupid jet lag. Theres a guy in the middle of the street selling flowers. Odd trees. Saw some English cows. Got a 2 pound coin, which is like a 2 dollar bill, therefore I’m not gonna spend it.**<\/p>\n

The plane was really nice. Had individual TVs in the back of the seat in front of us, w\/ different channels and headphones. Really really spiffy. I’m going nuts ’cause I can’t say ‘boogers,’ ’cause its too close to the british ‘bugger,’ which translates into “f***.” Ah well. Good grief, a McDonalds.<\/p>\n

The Dr. Pepper tastes fruity, like it’s got cough syrup in it. Instead of ‘speed bump’ the signs say ‘hump.’ Got a picture of it. Not to mention we’re on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n

Whoa, going over river. Cool boat.<\/p>\n

Whoa, a castle-looking thing. Thing its a cathedral.<\/p>\n

Mac^ keeps pointing out cars of all things. Britons seem to like flowers and trees. And hanging their laundry out on the balcony for all the world to see. I wanna live here someday just so I can say that I did.<\/p>\n

When we got off the plane, we didn’t have one of those walkways; we went down those metal steps like you see in old movies. Too nifty. Straight to the outside.<\/p>\n

Right outside Holland Park.<\/p>\n

Hey, we’re in Notting Hill, like in the movie. Going to be out our hotel soon says the guide.<\/p>\n

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Now we’re in some park — biggest park in London. Just Steven and I; everybody else went thataway —->^^ Don’t have to be anywhere ’till 2, and it’s only 10:44 now (London time, of course). Really nice park, fountains and huge grassy areas. Big fly on my foot. Went away. Lots of pigeons too. Supposedly they’re famous. Uh huh.<\/p>\n

Really nice weather. Sunny, no humidity at all (so used to Alabama’s liquid air) & a nice breeze. Didn’t expect to get this much free time, even if just this once.<\/p>\n

Airplane and Hyde Park<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

Hyde Park and Steven<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

More Hyde Park<\/a> (bigger)<\/a><\/p>\n

*We were part of a group of four different classes. Us Alabamians were all from my high school French class (I signed up when I was a Senior). The others were from the three states mentioned. I’m sure we were the ‘Rednecks’ to them.<\/p>\n

**I still have this coin.<\/p>\n

^Arrow actually drawn to point NE, if one assumes the top of the page is N.<\/p>\n

^^Mac is from our group, but we don’t like to claim him. You’ll hear more about him later.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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