Final days in the UK
Jun 28th 2011Sean4 months in Europe
After leaving Cardiff, we took the train down to Salisbury to catch the bus to Stonehenge. Upon arriving in Stonehenge, we spoke with a Druid who was telling us all about the festivities over the last few days. We setup our tent for the first time and prepared for 2 days of relaxing/camping. The first night we all gathered around a big communal fire and jammed out a bit… Jord and I even joined in… don’t ask how. Bottle of Jameson might have been our inspiration. Haha! We met lots of locals and one girl from New Zealand (Vashti) who was travelling around on her own… like Jord and I are. The following day we went to Stonehenge. Amazing!
On Friday we took the bus back down to Salisbury (Vashti joined us for the company) and we all headed to London. We arrived in the ghetto of London in mid-afternoon and checked into our hostel. The following day we did the tourist thing around London… changing of the guard, Big Ben, Circus, London Bridge, etc…
That evening we headed out to a club/pub called Koko with Vashti (she got some free tickets). After a few drinks and getting lost on the tubes a couple times, we finally made it there.
On our final day/night in London, we headed to Clapham Common to catch some rays (32c over here!). Later that night we met up with an old friend of mine… Jeremy Petley. Jeremy, Jordan and I began a little pub crawl (to put it lightly). After losing Jordan at around 10pm, Jeremy and I continued our debauchery around the town. A few Kabooki-Kabs later, we ended in Soho. Jeremy and I stumbling back to the hostel at 3:30am to find Jordan had already made his way back (phew!).
The next day we woke up a little discombobulated and walked to the nearest train station to head down south to Dover. We ended our day in Calais, France after catching the boat. Goodbye Britian. It’s been a slice! We are now happily on the ‘continent’.