Just touched down in London Town

CIDER IS THE BEST DRINK EVER.

So far in England, I’ve landed two hours late, driven around in what felt like circles on roads that didn’t seem to have rules, took public transportation into London, went to an old Pub near castles that are only open in the spring, and drove to Brighton (a cute sea side town with neat shops and pretty colored buildings, also the home of Banksy). I’ve developed an affinity for Strongbow Cider, playing cards at sticky pub tables, deaf cats named Winston that come into my room each morning to smell everything, and watching American news one day later recorded on the DVR. This evening, we went to the London Museum of Transport. Justin was uncool because he did not want to participate in the stamp game. Alex and I got all 13 stamps around the museum. The reason we went to this semi-obscure museum was we saw a sign on a bus stop advertising a century of posters exhibition. That was pretty cool—they were the original artist’s submissions for various posters from the last century.

In Brighton, we had a yummy tea, explored the pier, went to the royal gardens, some museum, found the kissing coppers by Banksy, ate at a delicious sandwich place called toast, did some more window shopping, or as I like to say, took some more Shopportunities, and went home. I like Brighton; it is a cute town, with an apparently lively club scene.

We reserved a room at the Flying Pig Downtown in Amsterdam for the night before orientation begins. It is where quite a few other people on the program are staying, and hopefully Ian can meet up with us there. We are taking an overnight ferry from London to Amsterdam in order to maximize our time in Amsterdam and minimize our expenses. Hopefully I’ll be able to carry all of my luggage from train to ferry to train etc. The three of us reserved a four bed, windowless cabin. It actually looks pretty nice from what the website photos show. Plus it’s only one night. I’ll actually be glad to sleep on a regular bed instead of a blowup mattress finally.

Thanks to everyone who is reading. It's actually quite fun to write. Also, My Skype name is sara.fultonkoerbling Let me know if you want to set up a skype date.