Continuing to be a Huge Tourist

All I need is a fanny pack and shorts pulled way too high. Actually, I'm going to be a huge tourist in Barcelona this weekend. I just checked the weather (and then converted the temperature into Fahrenheit because I still haven't gotten used to the metric system) and it's about 80 degrees (Fahrenheit) there. So maybe I will have to invest in some ugly shorts.

SO...here are a bunch more pictures of my host city before I leave:

My friends and I (plus about 30 other people in my program and one poor family that had to deal with us) went on a bike tour of London. I heard driving in London was bad....but biking with tons of people over bridges, through traffic, and tourist attractions is no tip-to-tip tour down LBI. But I did get a few nice pictures....

Can't ever get enough Parliament pictures. Am I right?

I call this the Buckingham BMX [or trying to get around to the palace carrying bikes].

Oh, and what do you know...I ran into another semi-celebrity. This is Josh Peck from movies such as The Wackness or hit Nickelodeon shows like Drake and Josh (he was Josh). My friend took the picture during an enticing conversation in which I realized that he was not actually acting very hard in The Wackness at all. Here's a hint....

"That's dope."
-Josh Peck



So I ALSO saw my first castle ever (unless you count that time I went to Medieval Times in New Jersey). It was, of course, the most incredible thing I've ever seen (although Medieval Times was awesome and involved jousting).





We had a lovely tour guide who told us a story of the (extremely obese) King Henry VII and how, on his way to be buried with all the other royals at St. George's Cathedral, his body exploded in the casket. Also it was beautiful inside.




We also visited Eton College. Which reminds me of how confusing the school system is here. College is something like high school, Uni is community college (I think), and University is college/university. Also what we call private schools are called public schools, and in all of these schools they all talk funny (like Fronce [France] and paster [pasta]).

So in this public college (aka private high school)...this is their school uniform:
With tails. On Saturdays, too.


There was a huge fair on the River Thames last weekend and at the end there were fireworks. I realized I'm completely spoiled and that all the fireworks displays I regularly attend at home are the most expensive displays in the US [unless you could the bi-weekly fireworks that my neighbors in Allston set off around midnight...something Dad can attest to from his one night stay].

London didn't disappoint.