So we got here around 9 a.m. with 1.5 hours of sleep, and tried to make it through the day. We got through the couple hours of using the underground to get to our Hostel, checked in, and walked around the corner to a BEAUTIFUL park (palace included). The park was called Kensington. It was, in a word, delightful. Pictures will be up later, I promise!
After that, we stopped at an excellent Greek restaurant, suggested by our AWESOME travel book, Let's Go: Western Europe! It was called Aphrodite's Taverna, and it had some amazing falafel. I mean leg-en-dar-y falafel. If you're ever in London, you should definitely go there. Because mmmmmmm boy.
The only bad thing about the restaurant is that we were so tired that we were kind of falling asleep through the meal... So we decided to return to the hostel for a little cat nap around 2. It's now 8:30. 'Nuff said.
But now we're going out to the city, hopefully to a pub.
Cheerio!
kensington gardens is a very nice area of hyde park...when you ultimately make your way to the west end, go to the bag o' nails, right in soho...it's where the beatles hung out, i know you'll get a kick out of that. i would spend a night using the areas surrounding leicester square as home base...the odeon is right in the square, chinatown is just to the northwest (as is soho,) charing cross and trafalgar square are just south & southeast, respectively. lots of cool chill pubs between soho and charing cross.
ReplyDeleteYeah Josie! I'm so excited you have this blog. Now I truly can live vicariously through my children.
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