Lise is in London!

London is big. Fifth largest city in the world, in fact. We checked into our hotel on Monday evening in Lancaster Gate, right across the street from Central London’s large park, Hyde Park. We decided it would be a good idea to do an extremely touristy thing: go to Harrods Department Store. However, we greatly overestimated our map skills and ended up asking upwards of four Londoners for instructions to London’s largest department store…that is my parents asked directors while my brother and I stood as far away from them as possible and acted cool. In the end, we took like three double decker buses (very exciting) and finally got to this happening part of London. Once we got to the store itself, we road the escalators to the very top and gaped at the numerous floors of merchandise, including the “Pet Kingdom” where you could buy your dog a Chanel hoodie for a mere 350 pounds. What a deal. Not really, thats like really expensive.
After our visit to Harrods, we found a lovely Lebanese restaurant. Here, we learned the three let downs of restaurants in England: water is not free, refills aren’t free, and bread baskets aren’t free. Woe is me. But besides that, dinner was lovely, and we returned to our hotel from the tube (which we didn’t get lost on!). The next few days in London consisted of many museum visits, including the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, which had paintings and photographs from centuries ago to the modern day, as well as the incredible Westminster Abbey. Built in the eleventh century, this gorgeous church houses many memorials to kings, queens, poets, musicians. A very lovely historical aspect of England. We then walked along the river and saw many street performers and markets and went to the Globe Theatre, one of Shakespeare’s many historical theaters in London. Here we got a tour and learned all about the architecture of the open roofed building and the simplicity of the plays and performances that is kept alive today by the Royal Shakespeare Company. It has been a busy couple of days! Cheerio!

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