So I'm Back in London...

Once again, I didn't intend on blogging today, but once again, things have changed.

Today I woke up, ate, showered, and checked out of my room. I was out of the hostel by 10 this morning. I immediately hiked down the big ass hill to get to Bath proper, and went straight to the bus/train station. I was there at around 10:30. If you recall, I was planning on going up North, to the Lake District, to a small city called Ambleside to do some hiking and relax a bit. Unfortunately, the train/bus station was going to have me take three trains and a bus to get there, and it would have cost me 77 £s (over 100 $s), and I just couldn't afford it. I tried another bus station, but they only had one trip out to Ambleside, and it had already gone out, unfortunately. I tried to go West instead, to either Devon or Cornwall, which is supposed to have some nice scenery and some good rocky coastline. Unfortunately again, all of the buses were booked!!

So I just went back to London. I could've stayed in Bath, but there wouldn't have really been anything for me to do. Here there ar several things that I sort of wanted to do, like visit the British Library and London Bridge and the Museum of Natural History... so I won't be bored. This also gives me another chance to hit up a pub in London, which I still haven't done.

My bus arrived here at 3:30 this afternoon, and I promptly got another day pass for the Tube and went into downtown. The hostel I'd been staying at, in a place called Holland Park, was a little too on the outskirts of the city for my taste. Yet aAGAIN I was met with bad luck, as the first hostel I tried was I think under construction (it was up on the second level so I couldn't really tell but there was a door boarded up where the entrance should've been) and the second hostel I tried was all booked up. So, I'm back in Holland Park. I wasted about four hours getting to the stupid place, too, but at least I have a bed tonight. I was starting to think about sleeping in a park somewhere before I got here.

Tomorrow, I'll switch hostels and go into the heart of the city, do some laundry, and pretty much take it easy and read. Monday, I'll see some more sights and hit a pub that night before waiting around in the train station all night to catch my train to Paris at 5 AM. I may write again Monday night, but at the moment I'm leaning on a no for that one. I will definitely, however, write again Tuesday night (whether I write Monday or not), to talk about how my first day went in a country that doesn't speak English :-/. I know I'll be fine, but I'm still a little nervous.

Also, I think I'm going to go up North before heading down to Spain... I think I'll visit Paris for a few days, then head straight up to Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, and Amsterdam before working my way down through the French countryside and the Spanish coast (among other things).

Anyway, see you back here in two or three days!

-Swag