TravBuddy.com: Limey's London, Summer 2007 travel blog Copyright 2005 TravBuddy LLC http://www.travbuddy.com/blogs/8869 Six weeks in London studying abroad through NYU. en-us Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:21:47 PST Day Thirty Four http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Thirty-Four-London-34 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:21:47 PST Day Thirty Four London, England, Jul 26, 2007

Am leaving London tomorrow, a week early. Family emergency. I don't really want to go into the details since half the people who read this I don't …

]]> Day Thirty Three http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Thirty-Three-London-33 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:00:40 PST Day Thirty Three London, England, Jul 25, 2007

Went on the London Eye today. Very overrated. I saw some pretty good views from the top of St. Paul's. Although I didn't get to see Parliament and …

]]> Day Thirty Two http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Thirty-Two-London-32 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:16:24 PST Day Thirty Two London, England, Jul 24, 2007

It was beautiful out today, but, of course, I was stuck inside most of the day. Two classes, worked on research for a final paper between classes. …

]]> Day Thirty One http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Thirty-One-London-31 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:33:38 PST Day Thirty One London, England, Jul 23, 2007

I've officially been here one month. Feels like one thousand months. Seriously, sometimes I think the clock is going backwards. Each day I add Day …

]]> Day Thirty http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Thirty-London-30 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:37:57 PST Day Thirty London, England, Jul 22, 2007

I am beyond tired right now. I stayed up last night until 2:30 uploading my pictures from my busy day yesterday. This site is so ridiculously slow,…

]]> Day Twenty Nine http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Nine-London-29 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:29:02 PST Day Twenty Nine London, England, Jul 21, 2007

I decided to make up for yesterday's lack of activity. Mid-morning I started walking east along the northern side of the Thames. I had walked along…

]]> Day Twenty Eight http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Eight-London-28 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:14:31 PST Day Twenty Eight London, England, Jul 20, 2007

Today was a detox day. I've been so busy the last week, having full days and then going to events at night, I needed a day to just breath. And toda…

]]> Day Twenty Seven http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Seven-London-27 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:36:22 PST Day Twenty Seven London, England, Jul 19, 2007

In between classes today my suitemate and I went to a 3 pound pizza place. It was a short walk from the academic building (maybe 10 minutes tops). …

]]> Day Twenty Six http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Six-London-26 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:14:46 PST Day Twenty Six London, England, Jul 18, 2007

The word of the day is... lame! I started off my ridiculously busy day at Buckingham Palace to finally see the changing of the guards. We got ther…

]]> Day Twenty Five http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Five-London-25 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:09:31 PST Day Twenty Five London, England, Jul 17, 2007

In between classes today I planned on going to Chinatown. It's not too far from class, definitely walking distance, and I hoped to get some Chinese…

]]> Day Twenty Four http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Four-London-24 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:54:06 PST Day Twenty Four London, England, Jul 16, 2007

Woke up not particularly early (for once) and hammered out my Othello review. Well... not really hammered. Took a long ass time. Probably because I…

]]> Day Twenty Three http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Three-London-23 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:43:37 PST Day Twenty Three London, England, Jul 15, 2007

Woke up early (I'm sensing a pattern here) and got some work done. Mom helped me revise my travel writing paper and I think it's pretty decent. But…

]]> Day Twenty Two http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-Two-London-22 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:48:23 PST Day Twenty Two London, England, Jul 14, 2007

I woke up on the early side again today and did a little bit of homework, lot of bit of surfing the Internet. I was proud of myself, though, becaus…

]]> Day Twenty One http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-One-London-21 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:23:18 PST Day Twenty One London, England, Jul 13, 2007

For a good part of the day I was lazy and I feel really guilty about it. I woke up at 8:30 and spent way too much time on the computer. Wrote a few…

]]> Day Twenty http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twenty-London-20 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:30:10 PST Day Twenty London, England, Jul 12, 2007

Today I had class times two. I decided to wear my rainboots again today because it was grey this morning so surely it would rain sometime today. Su…

]]> Day Nineteen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Nineteen-London-19 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:42:24 PST Day Nineteen London, England, Jul 11, 2007

Today I rode bus #11 its entire route from Liverpool Street to Chelsea for my class assignment. I was going to talk about these two little kids on …

]]> Day Eighteen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Eighteen-London-18 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:45:46 PST Day Eighteen London, England, Jul 10, 2007

Pretty uneventful day, not much to update on. I went to two classes today. For my travel writing our next assignment is to write about a cheaper th…

]]> Day Seventeen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Seventeen-London-17 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:41:17 PST Day Seventeen London, England, Jul 09, 2007

Today was a museum kind of day. First I went to the Museum of Natural History. There were so many school classes and adorable little kids running a…

]]> Day Sixteen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Sixteen-London-16 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:28:50 PST Day Sixteen London, England, Jul 08, 2007

Another miraculously gorgeous day. Blue skies, white, puffy clouds, warm weather. It was lovely! So today we were supposed to go to Oxford and Str…

]]> Day Fifteen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Fifteen-London-15 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:56:30 PST Day Fifteen London, England, Jul 07, 2007

Beautiful, clear blue skies... it's about time! Today was the kickoff of the Tour de France. Even though I'm not into cycling it was still pr…

]]> Day Fourteen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Fourteen-London-14 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:34:15 PST Day Fourteen London, England, Jul 06, 2007

Woke up early today and went to the Tate Modern. Why, oh why, did I go to a modern art museum when I despise modern art? Okay, despise may be a str…

]]> Day Thirteen http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Thirteen-London-13 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:07:21 PST Day Thirteen London, England, Jul 05, 2007

Probably one of my most uneventful days. Went to classes. Nothing exciting enough to mention in here. This afternoon there was a little street fair…

]]> Day Twelve http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Twelve-London-12 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:51:21 PST Day Twelve London, England, Jul 04, 2007

This morning I woke up early and went to the National Portrait Gallery with my suitemate's photography class. It was really, really great. The olde…

]]> Day Eleven http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Eleven-London-11 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:10:35 PST Day Eleven London, England, Jul 03, 2007

Today was class times two. For my travel writing class we're going to have to come up with a 300-word travel guide style blurb about something…

]]> Day Ten http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Ten-London-10 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:03:49 PST Day Ten London, England, Jul 02, 2007

I'm exhausted even though I didn't do much today. Went shopping along Oxford, Regent, and Bond Streets... Dorothy Perkins, Primark, Topshop, etc. P…

]]> Day Nine http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Nine-London-9 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:00:56 PST Day Nine London, England, Jul 01, 2007

So in the words of the honorable George W. Bush, I let the terrorists win today. I had all these super ideas for stuff I wanted to do today... but …

]]> Day Eight http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Eight-London-8 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:55:06 PST Day Eight London, England, Jun 30, 2007

I had a busy day today to make up for yesterday. Woke up early (8:00) and walked down to the Tate Britain (3 miles). It was a long ass walk; my fee…

]]> Day Seven http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Seven-London-7 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:16:25 PST Day Seven London, England, Jun 29, 2007

Yea... so that bomb scare business. I was literally a block from where the car was found that night; the bomb was on Haymarket and I…

]]> Day Six http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Six-London-6 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:14:41 PST Day Six London, England, Jun 28, 2007

Today was a busy day, but I feel like I didn't accomplish as much as in past days. I woke up early to do some work and then off to class. We got o…

]]> Day Five http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Five-London-5 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:54:57 PST Day Five London, England, Jun 27, 2007

The weather was actually half-decent today. This morning I woke up and headed to the Marc Jacobs store in Mayfair. I took the tube (I navigated all…

]]> Day Four http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Four-London-4 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:03:14 PST Day Four London, England, Jun 26, 2007

First day of classes. They were pretty good. In travel writing we didn't do much. He just told some (depressing) stories and gave a very vague gene…

]]> Day Three http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Three-London-3 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:08:29 PST Day Three London, England, Jun 25, 2007

Internet's working! So last night I was talking to one of my suitemate who's really familiar with London, and she was telling me about the British…

]]> Day Two http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-Two-London-2 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:08:13 PST Day Two London, England, Jun 24, 2007

Second day. Internet’s still not working. It better be working by tomorrow.   Last night I went out to dinner with some people from the fl…

]]> Day One http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/8869/Day-One-London-1 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:07:58 PST Day One London, England, Jun 23, 2007

Here I am in England; it was an interesting trip.   The flight was…decent. I love the accent. It’s so ridiculous how a Brit can make any…

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