Its just you and me mom and we are off to LONDON!!

June 29th: Mom and I said good bye to lil Phil, who left the 28th back to the states, and started our lone adventure to new places!! Our first stop… London!!! We left very very early on the 29th (like at 6am) however the flight was cheap so we made due.

Morning of and ready to go!

Our first stop in London was of course the crazy 'tube' aka subway system they have. I though Paris was bad however London is worse. They have a half gazillion lines and are not named sensibly. The 'underground' sometimes has stops overground and the 'overground' is mostly underground. The price for a ride was about 2 pounds which is about $4 so we opted to get an 'oyster card' or a temporary subway pass. It cost 5 pounds but every ride was around 1 pound and we could return the card and get the 5 pounds back so it was a good deal. After we figured all of this out, we had to figure out where to go to get to our Airbnb place. It was about 20 minutes north of downtown however the directions were a tad confusing. We managed to make it there around 9am and usually the host of the apartment we were staying at let her guests in around 3pm. We tried to stay out and about until 3pm yet we failed. We started off at a very cute and organic restaurant for breakfast/lunch (picture above). 

We both got the scrambled eggs, I got mine with mushrooms and mom got hers with a roasted tomato.

 Next we went to church, as it was a Sunday, and then sat in the local Starbucks for a little while. We only made it to about 1pm before we were falling asleep. So we asked the host if we could come over a bit early, since we were just exhausted from the early flight. She was very accommodating and we finally got a good nap!

 The entrance to our little apartment for the week! With our reservation, we got one room and access to the bathroom and kitchen. It was much more accommodating than the place we had in Rome since our host was single and she was usually out all day working or going to the gym or whatever. It was only a two bedroom apartment on the third floor of the building, so there wasn't much space but mom and I loved it there! We had such a great time, the mattress was great for sleeping, and the area was quaint and quite for two pretty amazing travelers!