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I've decided that my laptop hates the UK. It didn't really work in Edinburgh until Alen did something so I could use IE and MSN, I could only use FireFox for some stupid reason - and I hate FF! Anyways, so here in London my laptop decided that it didn't want to connect to the wireless that's provided in the flat, but thankfully they have an ethernet cable so I'm connected through that!
Since the last time I posted we traveled from Edinburgh to Liverpool, which was a nice city but extremely boring. Basically the main popular thing was were The Beatles and I'm not a huge fan of them, not like Ashley and Becky - that was the main reason we made the stop. Although we did meet Becky's friend Anne-Marie, who was so funny and so kind that it made the trip a bit more better for me. It didn't help that at that time I was incredibly homesick and just really, really wanted to go home. It didn't help that the only internet the hotel we were staying at had was an internet connection you had to pay for. We would have paid for it, but the rates were retarded! 5 pounds for one hour, 10 pounds for one day (this was from whenever you bought it to 12:01 am the following day), 20 pounds for one week, etc. Now to convert those prices just double them and you'll roughly get what it would be in Canadian and American dollars. I get what they were trying to do, to get people to buy the longer time to get the better deal, but we were there for two nights, so we refused to do it.
So from Liverpool we took an all night bus down to London. It would have been fine but we had two jerks who would not shut the hell up. The bus left at 11:40 pm and they didn't shut up until about 2 am. It was mostly the one guy after one time, because he was talking on his cell phone...loudly. They wouldn't even whisper, and it was really, really annoying. So because of that - and a bus isn't the most comfortable thing to sleep on - I probably got two, three hours max of sleep. So I was very tired yesterday.
Once we got to London (got in just after 6 am) we made our way over to our flat where we're staying probably shortly after 7. Had to wait until 10:30 to have someone take our luggage to store it (the cleaners were nice and allowed us to store them in the flat because we weren't supposed to get the keys until 4pm) in the flat, and then we were able to go off. We wandered around, went to see Big Ben (which is just amazing, of course), Westminster Abbey (they had monks at one time!), and then the Aquarium. The Aquarium was pretty neat, too, they had sharks and did this shark feeding (but it was more of a fish feeding, because the sharks didn't eat much).
Last night we did our Sinister London tour, and it was so much fun. We were taken around the places in London where Jack The Ripper did his killings (visited three of the murder locations, which of course have changed since 1888), The Ten Bells (the pub that the prostitues were known to frequent) and then he just drove us around telling us stories of certain ghosts and then where the Elephant Man stayed in his hospital and some two thugs that were well known...and I can't remember their names. He told us one story of a murderer who sounded familiar, and I was pretty sure I had read it before! And I had, it was one of the stories that was included in a book Tay bought me. I was like "Mwahahaha!".
BUT. We are now off to the London Dungeons and then the Docks for more Jack The Ripper viewings (like artifacts and the such), so I will post pictures tonight!
Since the last time I posted we traveled from Edinburgh to Liverpool, which was a nice city but extremely boring. Basically the main popular thing was were The Beatles and I'm not a huge fan of them, not like Ashley and Becky - that was the main reason we made the stop. Although we did meet Becky's friend Anne-Marie, who was so funny and so kind that it made the trip a bit more better for me. It didn't help that at that time I was incredibly homesick and just really, really wanted to go home. It didn't help that the only internet the hotel we were staying at had was an internet connection you had to pay for. We would have paid for it, but the rates were retarded! 5 pounds for one hour, 10 pounds for one day (this was from whenever you bought it to 12:01 am the following day), 20 pounds for one week, etc. Now to convert those prices just double them and you'll roughly get what it would be in Canadian and American dollars. I get what they were trying to do, to get people to buy the longer time to get the better deal, but we were there for two nights, so we refused to do it.
So from Liverpool we took an all night bus down to London. It would have been fine but we had two jerks who would not shut the hell up. The bus left at 11:40 pm and they didn't shut up until about 2 am. It was mostly the one guy after one time, because he was talking on his cell phone...loudly. They wouldn't even whisper, and it was really, really annoying. So because of that - and a bus isn't the most comfortable thing to sleep on - I probably got two, three hours max of sleep. So I was very tired yesterday.
Once we got to London (got in just after 6 am) we made our way over to our flat where we're staying probably shortly after 7. Had to wait until 10:30 to have someone take our luggage to store it (the cleaners were nice and allowed us to store them in the flat because we weren't supposed to get the keys until 4pm) in the flat, and then we were able to go off. We wandered around, went to see Big Ben (which is just amazing, of course), Westminster Abbey (they had monks at one time!), and then the Aquarium. The Aquarium was pretty neat, too, they had sharks and did this shark feeding (but it was more of a fish feeding, because the sharks didn't eat much).
Last night we did our Sinister London tour, and it was so much fun. We were taken around the places in London where Jack The Ripper did his killings (visited three of the murder locations, which of course have changed since 1888), The Ten Bells (the pub that the prostitues were known to frequent) and then he just drove us around telling us stories of certain ghosts and then where the Elephant Man stayed in his hospital and some two thugs that were well known...and I can't remember their names. He told us one story of a murderer who sounded familiar, and I was pretty sure I had read it before! And I had, it was one of the stories that was included in a book Tay bought me. I was like "Mwahahaha!".
BUT. We are now off to the London Dungeons and then the Docks for more Jack The Ripper viewings (like artifacts and the such), so I will post pictures tonight!