For Easter weekend, Chelsea and I went to London! The trip started out with us getting on a super crowded bus at 5AM to get to get to the airport. I only got a couple of hours of sleep that night so I completely passed out on the short plane ride to London. When we landed, it was still early morning and we were still exhausted. All we wanted was to sleep at that point but we couldn’t check into our hostel until afternoon, which kinda sucked. We explored the area around our hostel and found the Wellcome Collection. Started by entrepreneur Henry Wellcome, the museum houses his collection of medical artifacts, art, and other oddities from various cultures. It was really interesting and unusual! When we finally checked into the hostel, we both took very long naps. We woke up to go eat burgers and then went back to sleep (obviously not a very eventful first night).
The next day, we spent a few hours doing a wonderful free walking tour of the city! We learned a lot about the main tourist-y sights like Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, London Eye, Westminster Abbey, and Trafalgar Square, as well as a few others. Our tour guide was wonderful and we decided to join him for his Grim Reaper tour that night. He took us around London’s East End, going to the sites of Jack the Ripper’s murders and other sites of execution, prostitution, and poverty.
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