I arrived in London last Friday, and my uncle met me at the airport. My aunt and uncle live in London in an area called East Putney, which is about 30 minutes SW from main-area London. Over the weekend, I went to a Fulham football match with my aunt and Toby (my 11 y/o cousin), on a sight-seeing bike tour with my aunt and uncle, and to a play called “Tribes” with the whole family (my aunt, uncle, pierce-20, luke-17, and toby-11). Then on Monday morning, I went to the Tate Modern, a really cool museum in an old power plant with my aunt. THEN, I was off to Dublin!! (Don’t worry, I came back to London).
What do you do when you visit Dublin? Go to the Guinness Factory.
So from Monday evening to Wednesday night, I hoped over to Dublin to visit my friend, Kevin, from Richmond. He’s studying abroad there and is a fellow Frisbee kid :) He took me around the city, and we toured Dublin castle, and THE GUINNESS FACTORY.
My friend Kevin and I
The Guinness Factory is just the coolest building. It’s 8 floors, all with interactive stuff about the history and production of Guinness. Then, when you’ve gone through the museum (it takes 2+ hours), you go to the 8th floor to the Sky Bar, which gives you a 360* view of Dublin, plus a free pint of course. Such a cool view. Kevin and I were up there at sunset and it was gorgeous. We also went out into Dublin both nights, which was of course a ton of fun. So my visit was short but sweet and it was great to have gotten to see Ireland! Then, on Wednesday night, it was back to London! (Plane tickets between London and Dublin are really cheap…hence me planning this mini-trip).
London is even sweeter when you’re there with a best friend from home.
So I returned to London Monday evening and met up with one of my best friends from high school, Bre. She’s studying abroad in Norwich, England (2 hours north of London) for the year, so she took a train down and stayed with me at my aunt and uncles house from Wed-Sat. It was so great seeing her! The combination of seeing her and my relatives was a much-needed dose of home. Plus, it was great because her and I did all the touristy things around the city, and my aunt and uncle didn’t have to worry about entertaining me during the day.
BRE!
On Friday morning, my uncle and I went out for a horseback ride in the English countyside (my life right now really is a fairy-tale). It was AMAZINGLY fun. We went out with a group of 5 people, and just rode through the woods and were galloping through fields. It’s been so long since I’ve rode and I loved it! There was just one minor detail… MY HORSE FLIPPED OVER. Don’t worry, she was fine and so was I. But the ground was pretty wet (unavoidable in England…it rains everyday) and when we were galloping, my horse tripped on a bump in the ground and actually went falling to the ground and flipped over, probably because we were moving a quite some speed. I went flying too but was able to roll out of the way and the horse didn’t land on me. The horse and I both got up, a bit shaken and a bit muddy, but neither of us were hurt and we all rode back to the barn from there. My uncle said the only thought that went through his mind when he saw me fall down was, “Oh God, Kathy is going to kill me.” None-the-less, it was still so fun!
My uncle and I-- Going for a ride in the British countryside :)
The rest of my time in England was spent exploring the city with Bre (in the rain… not the best weather) and going out into the city my Bre and my cousin, Pierce, and relaxing at the house.
My cousin Pierce and I
My aunt and uncle have 2 cats who are the coolest cats I’ve ever met. They act like little puppies—super loving and cute. PLUS, one was pregnant and she gave birth while I was there! The baby kittens were the most fragile, pathetically-cute things I’ve ever seen. They looked like little mice. Adorable.
Baby KITTENS!!
Now, I’m home in Copenhagen! Class starts tomorrow… WHAT?? I’ve forgotten what school is. I've been too busy galavanting around Europe ;)
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