London

Country: England
Location: London

I was very excited to hop over the pond and go to this country. My grandmother is from Wales and I was very excited to see some of the things that she told me about when I was a child visiting her. I wish that I would have been able to visit her home town, but this trip was for business and I was very limited on time. My first impression when I opened the window as we were landing was, “Wow, it’s a lot larger than I had envisioned”. From the altitude we were at I was expecting the be able to see both coasts, but such was not the case. I landed in Gatwick bleary eyed from no sleep. I thought it was a good idea to get 3 hours of sleep the day prior to travel so I could sleep on the airplane and wake up when landing that morning. TERRIBLE idea. I did not sleep on the plane at all. So I had 3 hours of sleep the night before travel, then I travelled through overnight, then stayed up the whole day running around England.

When I thought of London, the Tower Bridge is exactly what came to mind for me! So it was a real pleasure to not only walk the bridge, but to take a boat under it.