[October 26] London: Just an average rainy day in London!

DO NOT let the blue sky in the picture on the left fool you. I took it over a month ago when blue skies were more common... Today, it's gray and rainy and feels exactly like my lovely western Washington home. 

I'm terribly behind on blogging. I've yet to blog about visiting Oxford, Stratford, Greenwich, Belgium... the posts are on their way though...

But as this week is midterms and Thursday morning we head to Scotland for four days... Well, we'll see when that happens. 

This post just has pictures of the South Kensington tube station that is closest to the Res Hall, and therefore the station I use frequently. For the first several weeks of class, I just used the tube station until one morning I decided to try using the bus. I was just fed up with walking to the tube and being squished onto the tube with a milliondy other people and sweating like crazy before I even got to class. It was just a big rush. The bus is so much more relaxed and I can sit and read and calmly listen to music and just look out the window and actually SEE London instead of zooming around underground everywhere and magically popping up somewhere. However, the bus is slower so you really need to have extra time to get to where you're going. I love to sit on the top in the very front.

Also, I'm pretty happy taking the bus especially when we get closer to Sloane Square (near my Res Hall) because there's a whole street of window-shopping (well, drooling?) at Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Armani, Gucci, Fendi, Miu Miu, and gosh I can't even remember what else. It's just fantastic. I love looking at all of the buildings—I definitely prefer the older ones. But I suppose the newer ones are in place because of all of the bombs that were dropped during WWII. It's hard to imagine London being under attack like that...