Travels in Europe

Moving day! My new friend from yesterday and I got some tea thins morning together before we headed to the train station. Turned out even though she was heading to paris and I was going to amsterdam our trains were leaving from the same place half an hour apart. It was nice to have someone…

Last day! The big event of today was heading out to the Warner Bros studio tour. Its a bit of a ways from my hostel so I had to take both above ground and below ground trains to get there but it was quite a tour when I did. The first part is a set…

Started the day off in Kensington where I had heard about a tea room that was supposed to be quite good. The place was called Candella’s and it was indeed very tasty. I had the traditional afternoon tea for which I chose a lavender early grey that was so good I wanted to buy some…

I was supposed to start the day with a tour of the parliament buildings today but it was cancelled due to the Queen’s passing. Instead I had a slow start to the day, had a cup of tea and tried to get a few logistical things sorted out before heading down to the london eye.…

Went to Buckingham palace today. Saw the changing of the guard which was fun. Turns out I left just a couple of hours before the new king arrived. There were quite a lot of people there, many brought flowers and things like that. After that I went to the British museum. There’s so much to…

I made it! An hour flight from Victoria to Calgary, 5 hours in the Calgary Airport, 8 hours from Calgary to London and then a half hour underground ride to my hostel (phew). Everything went pretty smoothly so I suppose I can’t complain. My hostel is nice, I’m in a 6 bed dorm but there’s…