Westminster Cathedral

Today was a bit of a stupid day that was spent doing literally nothing. So, I woke up and checked out of my hostel and went to grab a quick breakfast with my other hostelmate, Simone who is from Switzerland (and is writing a book which is cool!). I grabbed a small raspberry waffle to tie me over, and then I went to head off to the train station! Also wait look how cute my hostel common room is in the 3rd photo! Ok, so I took the Eurostar from Brussels to London, which was a pretty smooth ride. You have to security check your bags, I guess because of Brexit. But that went by pretty fast, nothing like the airport.
So basically I had a 10 hour layover in London, with my bags. I was at a loss for what to do and how to spend my time, so I honestly just wasted a lot of it. The first thing I did was get some food. I went to this restaurant called Wagamama which was kind of pricey, but so are all things in the UK. Also, Nieve and Amber who I’d met in Corfu recommended it to me, so I had to try it. I got a Japanese pork cutlet curry type thing and it was delicious. Suddenly I’m obsessed with Japanese curry. After that, I sat in a little grass area outside of the restaurant and read for a long, long while. Eventually, a man said that he was gonna close that area, so I needed a new game plan. I wandered for a short while and found the Westminster chapel. I walked in to check it out, backpack and everything, and they’re literally in the middle of a service LOL, i felt and probably looked so strange. I took a look, admired it, and got the heck out of there. Then, I went to go to a different park, just to find that it’s like privately owned? So I can’t even go. I just wanted to settle down somewhere because my back and shoulders were really starting to hurt. I decided to go and watch a movie, because I recalled the time in Lisbon when we did that and it was honestly perfect. I was afraid of falling asleep though, but I went anyways. This was literally the most posh movie theatre that I’ve ever seen in my life. It had like a bar and whole meals. And then the theatre was very intimate and also had like couch seats. I didn’t realize that I picked a double seat…… but the person left or moved after the first 30 minutes hahahha. I watched Oppenheimer- would’ve gone for Barbie, but Oppenheimer killed more time. Considering that I’m not someone who is particularly interested in war, politics, and history or anything like that, I found the movie to be really interesting, I didn’t fall asleep! After that, I grabbed a junior chicken (called a mayo chicken here) from McDonalds as a quick bite, and headed to the bus station for my 8 hour bus ride to Edinburgh!

This bus ride….. was interesting. I bought melatonin so that I would pass out but I still woke up probably 6 times. My seat wouldn’t recline, and my phone was at 29% (the charging ports didn’t work…..). So it wasn’t looking good. I really never want to do this again (I have to do this again on the way back).Read more