London Retrospective :)

so i'm writing from my hostel in Nice, France. due to lack of internet and the surplus of aforementioned french keyboards, i've managed to get really far behind in my blogging. i was going to do a whole reflective entry on my impressions of london but instead i'll give you this:



*it's ridiculously diverse. you think america is a melting pot, you need to come here. you never know what language the person you talk to is going to speak! in fact, there was some frusteration because the people working the front desk at our hostel were not, in fact, english so that caused some issues. i mean, of all places, you'd think english would fly in ENGLAND right? i mean wtf lol. \

*nobody wears flip flops! we felt very out of place in our rainbows... atleast we were comfortable!

*native british people are nice. they would notice the abandoned looks on our faces and recongize lost foreigners and try to help. immigrants to london, however, couldn't care less. they could be down right mean! this came up several times. coming to mind now is an asian woman that glared at us the whole bus trip from our hostel to the bus station for taking up space with our luggage...

*they have weird tastes. onion and cheese sandwich anyone?

*overall,, not too different a feel from a place like new york. except everyone has an accent and just LOOKS british. i can't put my finger on how you can distinguish someone from london, but you can. i can't tell if it's the physical features of their face or just the slightly snooty way they carry themselves... either way, you can usually tell if you're about to be confronted with an accent or not.

*oh yeah, and it must SUCK to be a british guard. our walking tour guy took us to one specifically to take pictures with him. jeez that's awful. i mean, i totally went and took a picture with the guard cuz i know a good opportunity when i see one, but seriously... what a job.


i had a whole incoherent piece of paper filled out with dumb thoughts on the UK.. it hink i spared you the really bad ones that i thought were brilliant or humorous on the bus ride from london to paris... either way, london's cool but definitely not *my* european city where i dream to live.