England

My experience in England was a little bit different than France and Ireland. I was only able to spend one day in England because I had to fly back to Israel to then go on the Nativ trip to Poland, so for my one day, we did things that I wanted to do, or made sense for the group. So after getting in really late at night, we just decided to get a little dinner and then go to sleep in our hostel towards the outskirts of London.

The next day, we make it into the heart of London for yet another free walking tour of the city. We had a little trouble finding it, and had to do a lot walking, but eventually we made it to the start. The guy we had as our guide was a lot of fun. He is actually a trained actor, so while some of his talking was way over the top, in general he was a lot of fun. One really fun moment we had with him was in front of the parliament where we were discussing old torture methods, so he was demonstrating the method that would be used on people who committed treason. Naturally he needed a volunteer, and naturally I volunteered.

In general, we saw a lot on the tour and it was a good tour, and I’m glad I spent a chunk of my one free day doing that. In fact, towards the end of the tour, we ran into another person on Nativ who was in London with her sister who lives there, so afterwards we went to this pub to get lunch, and obviously I got fish and chips. They were delicious.

After lunch, we went as fast as possible to the British Museum, because that was the one thing I’d wanna see if I could. There was soooo much there. We only had an hour and a half, so I did what they recommended and I saw a bunch of really amazing things.

That night we went on a Tower of London/East London tour. It was basically a tour about the history of Jack The Ripper. Very interesting. Very creepy, and very odd that it was basically a story of Jews. 

London is a really cool city, and one day is most certainly not enough.