Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Day 1: Greenwich

Pronounced gren-itch, not green-witch, as the lady at the “Information” desk helpfully pointed out to us.
Thanks.
Below is a list of highlights from the trip:


-A hot chicken dinner and a viewing of Toy Story 3.

-A disoriented trek through the London-Heathrow airport, and miraculously discovering the “Information” desk, where a woman directed us towards the train and helped end our agony.

-Then came the ticket booth, where we unsuccessfully tried to use our credit cards to purchase a train pass. Thank goodness, because we would’ve bought the wrong thing anyways. A good old-fashioned ticket salesman helped us find the right thing, and we were on our way to Greenwich.

-A brief moment of jubilation was had.

-After an hour and a half of train time, we arrived at the correct station.




-We dropped off our bags at the hostel and headed out into the great unknown, where we delightfully stumbled upon closeout priced Ethiopian food from the Greenwich market. Dinner.


- A post meal walk was had, where we managed to scale the largest hill in Greenwich… it wasn’t much, but the view/sunset we saw at the top was good.



-We then journeyed further to find a grassy and surprisingly nice park, which was home to our first “old church” sighting. The steeple looked like a needle.


-We made it back to the hostel by dark and promptly passed out on our bunk beds.

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