Tube Strike Tuesday!

Well technically the tube strike is happening all day tomorrow, but it started tonight! Ugh!
I'm still not quite sure what the point of an organized strike is but oh well.
There's at least one another strike scheduled before I leave London - which seems so close &yet so far!

My mom's trip here marked the halfway point of being in London, with just about 7 weeks left! I have so much to see! Hopefully this weekend I'll be on a field trip to Hampton Court Palace, which is said to be the most impressive and beautiful in England!

ps.

I saw this earlier on Kaelah's tumblr and giggled so much, I just had to post it.

Happy Halloween!

After a week of non-stop sightseeing with my mom, I am officially wiped out! This weekend was daylight savings time over here (a week earlier than in the US, weird right?) so I was very glad to be able to get an extra hour of sleep!

Because my roommates and I have to intern tomorrow morning (and because they too are wiped out from break!) we're keeping our Halloween festivities to a minimum. It's weird not carving pumpkins or getting dressed up!

Instead, I'm sitting around wearing my Minnie Mouse ears and that's about all I'm doing today.


What are your Halloween plans/ What is everyone getting dressed up as?

a roman bath

Out of all the places my mom & I went this week, Bath was my favorite! Maybe I'm biased because I'm Italian, but I love learning anything and everything that's related to Roman times.
The baths were built in 75AD! After being used by the Romans, the baths got buried and built upon and they've only recently (maybe 100 years?) were uncovered! The water still naturally flows from deep underground and the whole thing was beautiful.

a mini recap

sorry for that mini hiatus!

Like I mentioned before, my mom was in London for this whole week! I spent everyday, morning until night with her going all over the city and seeing so many things -I think I took somewhere around 700 pictures!

Here's just a taste of some of the places we saw earlier this week..

I convinced my mom to go with me on the London Eye (450ft tall!). She was pretty nervous at first and wouldn't open her eyes, but after a few minutes I convinced her to get up and walk around the capsule and take in the views of the city.






We spent almost an entire day just in the British Museum! Anyone who's been to London says this is the #1 place to see because it holds so many amazing historical artifacts, including the Rosetta Stone! We didn't even see half of the exhibits!







I'll post more in the next few days - I don't want to overwhelm with pictures.

Midweek fashion!

The weather in London is getting so chilly and it's hard to be motivated to dress cute when the temps are dropping!

Last week I spend far too much money at H&M but couldn't help myself. My current obsessions are striped tops, blazers, and baggy shirts and I managed to find all 3 last week! I'm really bad at taking pictures of what I'm wearing because, if I did, they'd all be embarassing myspace-esque mirror shots (maybe I'll have to start playing around with the self timer on my camera? We shall see).

What are your favorite trends right now? What does everyone think of the fur vest trend?








(all pictures via weheartit!)

How was your day?

How many of these things did you do today?
I think I did #2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 11! And now I am doing #12 to my readers.

the canterbury tales

Another weekend means another fun Friday fieldtrip to recap!

I know I read some Canterbury Tales stories in high school, but of course I can't remember anything about them. Yesterday my roommates and I went to Canterbury where our school planned a tour through Canterbury Cathedral. Like some of the other Cathedrals we toured during previous weekends, it was overwhelming thinking about the 800+ years of history that has happened there.

We were able to spend a few hours in the actual town of Canterbury where we, of course, ate fish & chips!







After lunch, our group headed 40mins back towards London to Leeds Castle. I know it seems like I've seen a whole lot of castles, but each of them are so different! Leeds was actively used until the mid 1970's and was a lot different than Dover (from last weekend). Dover was definitely more of a castle used during wars and not really for royal family life. Leeds on the other hand, was set in the country-side, surrounded by water and full of endangered bird species! (I guess the royal family really loved birds?).








There was a pretty cool maze at Leeds Castle too! After navigating unsuccessfully, my friends and I split up into 2 teams and my team got so lost! Let's just say I have a bad sense of direction.


There aren't any fieldtrips next weekend because our "fall break" starts, which means my mom is coming! We have so many tourist-y things planned. I am so excited.