Summary of the 2013 Eurotrip

The trip is over. Actually, as I write this it's the 30th July 2014 and I'm sitting in my hostel in Kendal, England because I'm already on my next trip. I fell behind on my blogging while I was travelling because I was too focused on creating content, and then never really caught up when I got home. Guess I was too busy working to save for this trip.

I was away from home for 170 days, saw ~45 cities/towns although I didn't actually count that and went through around 30 countries.

What's changed?
I don't feel like I've changed drastically although there are a few small things that I can identify that have changed.

• I'm more confident meeting new people because I had a lot of practice. I probably met at least 2 new people per day on average over the whole trip.
• I'm more confident getting around and between cities.
• I enjoy hiking more. It's not like I ever disliked it but the times I went walking amongst nature on my trip are some of the most memorable
• I'm not worried about having nothing booked. I'm a planner so going to Europe with nothing booked was a little scary. The fact that I survived it means that my approach of knowing where I can go/what I can do but only booking things as needed works well.

Did you try new things?
Of course I tried new things. I went cheese tasting for the first time in Amsterdam. I slept with an eye mask and ear plugs for the first time although it happened a lot more than once. Speaking of sleeping, I left home not being able to sleep on planes, trains, buses, etc at all but now I'm a bit better because I can manage to get a few hours of sleep in those uncomfortable seats. I'm still not like some people who can sleep for entire trips.

There were also a lot of things that aren't quite as good for you that I tried: lots of local beers, the local fire water all over eastern Europe, lots of goulash, space cake, Shisha and Snus (the nicotine bags from Sweden).

Did you see everything?
Although I saw a lot, there are still a lot of things I missed:

• Portugal
• Scandinavia
• Ireland and the UK (apart from London and Brighton that I did see)
• Baltics
• More of Spain
• Italy (apart from Venice); Rome, Naples, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre
• Switzerland
• St Petersburg
• Flyboarding in the UK
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Morocco
• Sicilly
• Iceland
• Ukraine (Chenobyl)
• Kosovo
• Bosnian pyramids
• More Greece exploring

I wanted to try couch surfing but it never happened because it takes more effort to organise. I also feel like I could've tried to hitch hike more in eastern Europe although I did it once for 5 minutes in Cappadocia, Turkey but there were more opportunities.

Was it hard/lonely?
I travelled on my own and I met a lot of people who were doing the same, so it's not a strange thing. I also met quite a few locals/group travellers who seemed shocked that I was on my own and the common question was "Is it lonely?". It's not. I might be travelling on my own but I'm never on my own because it's so easy to meet people in hostels. I really enjoyed being a solo traveller for a few reasons:

• You can always move at the pace you want to.
• There's no compromise on what to see like there might be with a group.
• It's easier to squeeze onto transport/get into hostels when there's only one spot left.
• You can form a group out of solo travellers to do things together but because they're all independent, they won't be offended if you go off and do things on your own.

I don't feel like it was that hard either. Admittedly I played it pretty safe and didn't put myself into situations where I might not have transport or somewhere to sleep but I just kind of cruised through the whole thing. At the start though, looking forward, it did seem quite daunting but I guess that's like a lot of things in life, they seem a lot easier once you've done them.

Random thoughts
I had a lot of time to think while I was travelling and here are some of the **sarcastic voice** profound things I came up with.

Every time you meet someone, you both have an impact on each other. That impact will change both your lives but in most cases, probably not by much. I met so many people while I was travelling and I hope that I've had a positive impact on all their lives. For me, I feel like all the people had a positive impact on me but not for any particular action or event, just because I can look back and feel happy knowing I made so many new friends, heard lots of stories and made lots of great memories.

I've taken the Myers Briggs personality test a few times and each time, I score borderline introvert-extrovert and I think this trip has helped me make sense of why this might be. When I'm at home, I have more projects on the go than I'll ever finish and I'm happy when I'm on my own working away at them (the introvert Tom) but when I'm travelling, I don't have anything to occupy my time so I become more extroverted to meet people and go do things.

I was surprised that I met quite a few people who live in the northern hemisphere who didn't know that the southern hemisphere has the opposite season. I guess they don't learn about the southern hemisphere like we learn about the northern?

Is the blog just about eating and drinking?
I had a few people ask me this and it wasn't my intention. Eating is something you do a few times a day and most times, the food was new or at least interesting so I thought it worth mentioning. I do enjoy eating too though.

The other thing to remember is that the amount of space something takes up in the blog doesn't have anything to do with the space it took up in my life. For instance, I might spend 5 hours catching buses and climbing a mountain and it'll get one paragraph and a few pictures but then I might spend 30 minutes trying a new dish that I enjoyed and it'll still get a paragraph and a photo.

Are you sad it's over?
No. I didn't leave home to run away from anything, I just wanted to go exploring and escape winter. I had an awesome time while I was away but it's not something I could do forever. I think 3 months is a comfortable time away for me.

I also didn't find it hard to get back into the swing of things at home. After only one week, it was like I never left and this isn't a bad thing. I was ready to come home.

What did I miss while away?
I certainly didn't get home sick in the first 3 months but after that, there'd be days where I didn't meet anyone new and I'd feel a bit lonely, home sick. Also, because I wasn't trying to escape anything at home, there were things that I missed:

• My job. Seriously, I enjoy my job.
• My routine. When I'm at home, I know what I'll have for breakfast/lunch/dinner, I know what I'll be doing most days, I know where I'll sleep. When I'm travelling, I don't know any of those things and it's exciting at first but after a few months, it gets pretty draining.
• My stuff. I'm a bit of a hoarder and it's really hard to hoard things when you move every 2 days and have to carry all your stuff. This was, however, a good lesson that I am still something without my possessions.
• Clean clothes. You have to carefully time when you wash things when you're travelling because you need to be in one place long enough to let them hang out and dry. This means things might not always be as fresh as at home.
• Power points. It's a constant battle to find places to charge your gadgets.
• Good internet. This is very rare because although all hostels have free WiFi, there's normally so many people that it barely works.
• My motorbikes. I rode one of my bikes everyday for a few months before I left so I think I was getting withdrawals.
• Going to my mate's property at Morgan. One of the simple pleasures in life.
• Working on my cars. I love building things and I wasn't building anything (tangible) the whole time I was away.
• Privacy. Hostels don't have much although I did well at finding it when I needed it.
• GTA5. It came out while I was away and I was aching to play it.

One thing I didn't miss at all was winter. Although I still had quite a few days where I was rugged up as much as I would've been back home though.

What will I miss when I get home?
Despite the things I listed above, there are certainly things I'll miss about travelling when I get home.

• How nice everyone is. There's a certain type of person you'll find in a hostel; someone who is looking to meet other people and who is open minded enough to leave their country to experience other cultures. This means that everyone is generally a nice person.
• How easy it is to start a conversation. There are three questions you can ask anyone in a hostel: Where are you from? Where have you been? and Where are you going? Can you imagine starting a conversation at home with Where are you from? It probably wouldn't go so well.
• Constant stimulation. You see and experience so many new things every day.

I sometimes made a joke that you only ever need 3 days of conversation when you travel because you'll never know anyone for longer than that and you can recycle it with each person. That being said, if you know someone for 3 days, it probably means you've spent 3 solid days together and you'll feel like you know everything about them.

Languages
I encountered lots of different languages and I often felt bad that I only knew English. Most people who weren't native English speakers said I was lucky that I was raised to speak English, which is only true because it's used so widely and not because it's a good language.

While I was away, I had a strong desire to learn another language and I had some Spanish audio tapes but once I got home, that desire totally evaporated. There's no reason to know another language when you live (my life) in Australia. The hard thing is, which language do you learn? There's nothing as widely useful as English except maybe Mandarin.

I also spent a lot of time thinking about the phrase "that doesn't translate into English". Is it possible that the language I speak limits the concepts I can understand?

History
Australia doesn't have much history in the scheme of things. Actually humans don't have much history in the scheme of things but I digress. Europe has a lot of really old buildings and all of them come with lots of stories about what they did, how they were built and what life was like in that era. I enjoy history and I got my fair share on this trip.

Travel methods used
I didn't always pick the cheapest, which is reflected in how much I spent, but I tried quite a few methods of transport during this trip.

• Flights
• Ferry, both overnight and short day trip
• Camper van
• Coach/bus
• Taxi
• Private transfer
• Scooter
• High/low speed trains
• Sleeper trains
• Metro (these are amazing)
• Trams
• Overground suburban trains
• Bicycle
• Canoe
• River boat
• and of course walking. Lots of walking.

What was your favourite place?

This question gets asked a lot but it's really hard to answer. I don't have a single favourite place that trumps all others although if I were forced to pick somewhere, I'd say Kotor because everything just worked. The weather was nice, I met great people, the scenery was awesome, there were great walking trails and I had my birthday there.

My profound realisation is that travel is all about the people. Who you meet is a huge factor in how much you enjoy the place. I went to the Eiffel Tower on my own and it was ok but I've done other things, that might be considered mundane, with the most awesome people and it'll be something I'll remember forever. It's all about the people.

Kuala Lumpur Day 1 - 8

23 - 31 October 2013

Day 1: Flying over
The flight wasn't as bad as I was dreading. I watched The Hangover 3, Now You See Me, World War Z and the start of The Internship plus I even had a bit of a sleep, which I was pleased with because it meant that during my travels, I'd gotten a bit better at sleeping on transport. The food was great too, I don't know why everyone knocks airplane food.

Getting to the hostel
Kuala Lumpur has a train, the KLIA Ekspres, which makes getting into town simple. It's a half hour ride and you get to see some of the countryside too, which is extremely green and lush with some farms and pockets of huge buildings. I then had to catch the metro two stops and it was really well set up with machines that let you buy tokens (in English) and it's also super cheap; you can go pretty much anywhere for 30 Australian cents. I did arrive at peak hour so I had to squish into the train but it wasn't so crowded that I couldn't fit.

Rooftop bar
Once I was at the hostel, The Reggae Mansion, I had a bit of a nap before heading up to the rooftop bar. The drinks aren't cheap (but still cheaper than Australia) but you get a pretty good view of the KL Tower and the Petronas Towers. Everyone at the bar seemed really friendly because I joined a table of people and started having a chat. Another Aussie guy and I ordered a beer tower but for the rest of the night we were drinking buckets because it was cheaper than beer.

There was also a guy on the mic organising activities and I didn't think of it before he said it but he told everyone to stop calling him Mr Chow (from the Hangover) and it was hilarious because he really did sound and look like him. I think he might own the bar so hopefully he doesn't read this.

When the bar closed we organised a bus to take us to the street with all the pubs, not that I had any idea where that was, and we carried the party on there. I caught a taxi with some other guys who said they were going to the reggae hostel but it turns out there are a few of them so I ended up not really where I wanted to be. I think I was actually quite close to my hostel but I had no idea so I walked for about 20 minutes in the wrong direction and then had to walk all the way back, all the while with only 4% battery on my phone and trying to decipher the map. I eventually made it home at 5am, not such a good way to beat jet lag.

Day 2: Petronas Towers and Batu Caves
I made it to breakfast, not feeling too awesome, but it was a great breakfast with wedges and fried noodles. Just the thing I felt like. Much later in the day, once everyone was feeling up to it, we headed out to go see the Petronas Towers and the absolutely spotless park next to it. We wanted to see the fountain show at the towers but because it was still daylight and there wasn't anything to do to kill time, we caught the train out to Batu Caves. The caves are very impressive with a huge flight of stairs (271 actually) and some huge statues. There are also monkeys that are cute but also really cunning so we had a few laughs seeing them steal water bottles from people.

At the top of the stairs, in the cave, there are a few chickens walking around, which isn't something I expected to see. There were also lots of pigeons at the top and bottom of the stairs. We took some photos before heading back into town.

Now it was dark, we went back to the Petronas Towers and got some dinner in the food court. I ordered something that was meant to be chicken noodles but the "chicken" had a really strange texture to it, like it was too soft. Not one of the best dishes I had in KL but trying new things, eh? We missed the fountain show but we went out and took the mandatory photos in front of the towers.

To the bar!
This is starting to be like Athens because we went back to the rooftop bar again tonight. We played a few games of pool this time and I'm not very good but I'm proud to say that I pulled off some really lucky shots. The night ran pretty late again and at the end we ended up at McDonalds, which broke my "no fast food" streak that was running for a few years before that, oh well. I ended up in bed at 4am, still not beating that jet lag.

Day 3: Lazy day
I didn't achieve a lot today although I did go exploring and found some great nasi goreng. The hostel has a cinema in it and one of the movies they were offering was Fast and Furious 6 but they need a minimum of 3 people to play a movie. I couldn't find 2 friends so I paid for 3 tickets, which was still cheaper than a movie ticket in Australia.

Day 4: Shopping centres
I made breakfast early today and it's a totally different crowd to the one that comes later. There were a lot of Asian school kids, but I don't think they stay at the hostel, they just come to eat.

The day's mission was to go exploring and the first stop was Jalan Bintang, which is a street that has a lot of shopping centres and they're all massive! I walked through a few of them and they all seem to have 12 floors and so much space that the top floors are either empty or not filled. One of them even had a theme park INSIDE of it (the park is called Times Square). I also had a look in the Low Yat Plaza (I keep thinking low fat), which is completely filled with tech stuff.

Day 5: Theme park
My friend from Seattle, that I first met in Paris, turned up today. We hadn't planned to meet up, it just randomly happened 5 months after we both met and after we'd both been travelling through two different continents.

I suggested that we should go to the theme park that I found yesterday and an Aussie guy and my friend were keen so that was the plan. On the way to the theme park, we stopped past some of the computer stores to see if we could get photos recovered from a dead SD card but no-one seemed to know what was going on with it. I get the feeling they were more into sales than fixing things.

The park wasn't very busy so we had the chance to ride the rides multiple times. We did the roller coaster (Supersonic Odyssey) three times, the Space Attack twice, Ooort's Express once and the DNA Mixer once. Once on the DNA Mixer was even too much because we were all sporting a hangover and it shook up things in us that we didn't want shaken.

After the theme park we went for a wander through the mall and in Tiny Taipei we found a store that sold waffles on a stick, so we had to give them a try.

KL Tower
The next stop was the KL Tower. It wasn't that far away but it did start raining while we were walking there so we got a bit wet but it wasn't cold so it wasn't all that bad. When we arrived at the base of the tower it was still quite foggy but we decided to pay to go up to the observation deck anyway. It turned out to be fine because we stayed up long enough to see the flog get blown away and it also got dark. This meant we got "day" and "night" photos from up there. As we left the tower, it was still raining lightly but we could hear a strange noise. After a few seconds I figured out that it was a stream of water landing on car roofs and noticed that it was moving. It turned out to be a stream of water falling all the way from the top of the tower and the wind was blowing it around. Obviously we all looked up to see where it was coming from but just as my two friends did, the wind blew the stream of water right over them so they got slammed in the face with huge rain drops. Rain is dangerous stuff! After some swearing, everyone was ok and we headed off to get dinner.

On the way back to the hostel we had to avoid some drunk guys who were hiding in a shop and throwing firecrackers at people who walked past in the street to scare them. We made it back and hit the rooftop bar again for some drinks and played some pool.

Day 6: Deja Vu
6 days is a long time to stay in one place when you're travelling. It also means that you'll probably be on your second set of friends because the other lot have already left. My current bunch of friends hadn't seen the Batu Caves yet and because they're free (the caves, not the friends), I was happy to go see them again.

Just like last time, we saw water bottles stolen:

The Aussie guy that was with us had a bag of chips and an ice cream and the monkeys wanted both. They weren't afraid to jump up to try and grab them and in the end, he decided he'd sacrifice the ice cream to distract them some we could get away. He throws the ice cream just before the video starts.

Back at the hostel we watched a movie: Side Effects and then went over to the Petronas Towers to take photos and get something for dinner. After the towers we headed back to the hostel to the rooftop bar. At the bar I learnt a trick for the perfect high five every time; look at the other person's elbow, not their hand.

Although I'd already seen all the tourist things we did today, I still had really good fun because the people you do it with are what makes it worth it.

Day 7: Taking it easy
I was running out of energy so today was a recovery day. My Seattleite friend and I went shopping for a KL magnet and tried to get an ice cream sandwich from Chinatown because it looked interesting but they didn't have any.

In the afternoon I watched the movie Oblivion with a Danish friend before we went out to find something for dinner. We ended up at a restaurant where they seemed to have a bunch of people working there who'd be assigned to customers and do everything for them. So the guy who served us also went out the back and cooked the food and served it to us. I guess it's a good business model to encourage people to work hard.

In the evening, a bunch of English lads that I met in my room and I tried to go to the SkyBar. It shouldn't have been that difficult but we couldn't get a taxi that would take 5 people and one of the guy's shorts split as we ran across the road so we chalked it up as a fail and went to the rooftop bar because it was easy.

Day 8: Last day
Today was really about killing time before the flight. I did some blogging, bought some sunnies in Chinatown, wandered through the shopping mall district again and found an arcade to play a few video games in before catching the train out to the airport.

The flight went fine and I got to watch the rest of The Internship as well as The Great Gatsby and part of The Lone Ranger.

I was pleased that Australian customs let me bring in the cheese I'd bought in Amsterdam as a present, so we're off to a good start.

Welcome homes don't get much better than my family meeting me at the airport to take me home. During the drive home I felt like everything was so open because all the houses are single story and so spread out. It's probably because I'd spent most of the past 5 months in big cities.

Thoughts on Kuala Lumpur:

• there's so much advertising for Samsung (and phones/gadgets in general) and fast food like McDonalds, KFC and Burger King
• most local people are dressed very smartly, despite it being hot
• there are some really tall buildings
• most of the city and roads are in good condition but, like any city, there are still some poor, run-down bits
• it's quite humid, but not so much that you can't survive however it's perfect at night
• public transport is cheap but still frequent, punctual, clean, all that good stuff.
• it has that "Asia" smell, which may just be humidity. I like it though
• all the buses are turbo diesel and the have no mufflers on them so they're stupidly loud. The drivers drive them like race cars too, which sounds pretty funny
• lots of pedestrian crossing have no lights so you just have to make a mad dash across the road

Trying to fit in a kids ride at Times Square Theme Park

My friend from Seattle and I on the Space Attack

This is the Space Attack

Always inappropriate

Waffle on a stick (with ice cream)

The rooftop bar of my hostel seen through a telescope in the KL Tower. It took me forever to find

The city and Petronas Towers from the KL Tower

In the KL Tower. It sucks taking photos in here because the windows reflect the light from all the shops.

At the base of the KL Tower. Imagine water falling from the top of this thing into your face.

Coloured trees near the KL Tower

Enjoying a bucket at the rooftop bar

A statue at Batu Caves. He has people in his chest.

The main part of Batu Caves. 271 steps.

Monkeys at the caves

Another monkey

And another monkey

AND another one. I'll stop now

A skylight in the cave

Looking back at the entrance to the cave

Umm, what?

Dusk Petronas Towers picture but not from the usual spot. We're in the park

The typical tower picture

The Petronas Towers from the bottom

Great food in Malaysia

The view of the Petronas Towers and KL Tower from the rooftop bar

Making friends with the Aussie guy

Sometimes you have to take photos from a funny angle to fit all the towers in

I ordered this thing not knowing what it is. Turns out it's tofu

Some of the ATMs are like calculators and not like phones. Super annoying

Decorations for Deepavali. It's all coloured rice

Inside one of the shopping malls. There's 3 more floors below the green stuff and another atrium (so twice this)

Panorama of the theme park

A Google Street View car

London (part 3) Day 14 - 19

16 - 22 October 2013

Day 14: Bus ride
This bus ride was cheap so I had pretty low expectations and it started out living up (or down) to those expectations. The driver that we had at the start wasn't a very smooth driver and because I can't sleep on buses, it was going to be a long night. Immigration gave me quite a few questions but this is probably because Aussie backpackers are the biggest visa overstayers in the UK (or so I've heard).

Everyone has to get off the bus while it's on the ferry and it's a mad rush to get upstairs first to get a couch to sleep on. I didn't realise this until I got up there as one of the last but I still scored a chair to (try to) sleep in. Back on the bus and after navigating some early morning traffic, a very sleep deprived Tom got off the bus.

I caught the train to my cousin's house and had a lazy day. After a nap the two of us went to the pub for lunch and it was good; beer and burgers. As a bonus even the weather was nice so we could sit in the beer garden.

Day 15: Greenwich
Today I was meeting my friend at Victoria station so we could catch the ferry down to the Greenwich museum. The plan was to meet at the Burger King in the station but, wouldn't you know it, there were two Burger Kings *facepalm*. We both went to different ones but we eventually both had the same idea and went wandering and bumped into each other. Life is a lot harder without mobile phones you know.

We caught the tube over to the river and jumped aboard the ferry. It was a pleasant ride and it's good to see things from a different perspective. The petrol head readers will like that the ferries are turbo diesel and they make awesome turbo spool noise.

We went to the museum with the timeline and observatory first and here I learnt about why they use knots for speed, how pendulum clocks work, saw a 28" telescope (it's the size of a shed) and of course took a photo on the timeline. Afterwards we went to the planetarium to see a show called Undiscovered Worlds. It was narrated by an American and aimed at kids but it was still good.

Next stop was a late lunch and we found a TexMex place near the museums; I'd recommend it (but I forgot the name). Afterwards we wanted to find the fan museum that was mentioned on the map and we did eventually find it but it was a) closed, and b) not the type of fans we expected. I pictured a museum full of electric axial fans but, and this makes more sense, it was all the fold out, handheld style of fans.

Comedy Club
We caught the ferry back and then jumped on the tube to Convent Garden to try and find something night-lifey to do. One of the dudes on the street sold us on a stand-up comedy show so we headed off to that and it was really good.

Day 16: White Bear
My cousin, his partner and I headed out into the Kent countryside for lunch today. We went to a pub called the White Bear and I guess it was a pretty standard English style pub; cosy, exposed wooden beams and all that other stuff. They also do great food so I can recommend it.

Day 17: Catching up with friends
I was meeting up with two friends (separately) in London today, the first was my tour leader from the Intrepid tour that I did (the tour not the leader) earlier this trip. It would've been quite easy to get there if the trains were running but the Northern tube line was suspended and that made things very difficult so I ended up catching lots of other trains to go around the suspended section of line. I eventually made it and found my friend but once again; life is much easier with mobile phones. We went to a pub, talked crap, drank beer and had a Sunday carvery for lunch. HOLY CRAP, this roast was the ultimate pub food, it taste soooo good.

Time to meet my other friend now and once again, the suspended train line threw a spanner in the works. I had to catch a bus but it was terrible because we had to wait in the rain and then when we got onto the bus, it was ridiculously packed. I eventually made it to the meeting spot and, cue sense of deja vu, my mate took me to another pub where we talked crap, drank beers and ordered a Sunday carvery. This one was half the price and about half the quality but still quite good. I don't know if the English are known for good food but I'd nominate these roasts as a candidate.

Day 18: Hampton Court Palace
My friend (the first one, not either of the two from yesterday.. maybe they need codenames?) and I caught the train out to this palace that's been turned into a museum of sorts. We wandered around and saw the bed chambers (there were a lot of them), the guest apartments and the kitchen. In the kitchen I learnt that pies were used as a way to serve the food in it's own dish (the crust) but you were only meant to eat the inside, not the lid or the crust base.

There was a role play with a queen and some other characters but it was horribly boring so we bailed on that and went to have a look at the gardens. They weren't nearly as nice as the ones at Versailles, France but then the whole palace here was much smaller and I think French gardens are known for their absolutely order. We also went through a hedge maze and had a race but *cough* I lost. Anyway, onto other topics.

Dinner
Back in Beckenham I went out for dinner with my cousin and his partner to a buffet place down the road called Chom Chom. All the food is really good but between crappy self control and wanting to get the most for our money, I ate way too much. The highlights were a Thai green curry and chicken braha.

Day 19: Legoland, no Surgeon's Museum
The initial plan was to go out to Legoland but we decided that we didn't have time so instead we went to the Hunterian or Surgeon's Museum. The museum is about the history of the surgeon profession and how medical practices have changed over the years. There is also a huge collection of samples of all sorts from human body parts to animals in glass jars.

Ice Bar
The map had an Ice Bar on it and we eventually found the place but it was't open yet. When you go to an Ice Bar, you expect it to be expensive but when we looked at the prices we decided that we didn't want it that badly so we didn't bother planning to coming back and instead went to relax in deck chairs in the park.

Flying out
It was time to leave Europe so I packed my bag, ducked to the pub with my cousin for one last beer and then started the super long tube ride to the airport. There's a gotcha at the airport station because it's in a different zone, you need to pay 90p extra so it's lucky I still had some money left.

Check in went smoothly and I remembered to empty my water bottle before security so I could fill it up before the flight and have my own water rather than having to pester the flight attendants. It's the small things.

Tower bridge from the ferry

Funny looking buildings

A giant ship in a bottle

Cool clock at the Greenwich museum (can't remember what it's for)

Panorama of Greenwich

Tower Bridge at night

The first roast. Yorkshire puddings are really nice

The second roast

Hampton Court Palace entry

We didn't learn much

*giggles*

Nice display in part of the palace

Royal toilet

Statue in the palace

Weird statue at the palace #1

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An old soft close mechanism that works really well

Courtyard of the palace

Why does England have sundials? They never get any sun.

I eventually made it.

Leaving the palace

There's no pictures allowed in the Hunterian Museum but this is what it may look like

Hello?

Standing on the Greewich timeline. My feet are in different time zones

Posing outside the Greenwich museum

Um, not really sure what humped pelicans look like

I was gonna bring it back but it was took big for my bag

*giggles*