Free Day #1

For our first full day in London, a few of us spent our free day exploring some of the main sights. We took the tube to Hyde Park, walked through Green Park (both of which had tons of daffodils in bloom) and went to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard.

After, our quest for lunch took us farther into the city where we found a pub for fish and chips. 

After that, we took in a few of the major sights, including the National Gallery and Trafalgar Square, the latter which was swarming with St. Patricks Day celebrations. After, we walked toward the river and saw Big Ben and Parliament, as well as Westminster Abbey. The Abbey was closed since it's Sunday so we couldn't go in, but the outside was still impressive.

We decided to see the rest of the sights on one of our other free days with a bus tour we have tickets to, but walking through London ourselves was really interesting and surprisingly easy to navigate. Even the Tube stations were really easy to figure out, so we could zip right back to the stop near our apartment building very easily.

Tomorrow we visit Brandelhow School and Kew Gardens and more schools in the day following that, so more garden related posts are to come.

-Abby