Roads to Ruins

I stayed closer to "home" this weekend. Friday night we had tickets to a night club called Fabric. It was really hyped up with talk of 7 floors and multiple dance floors. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to our expectations. I gave a it a good shot but fog filled dance floors with music so loud my brain rattled was not doing it for me. I didn't take my camera out that night so I don't have any pics. Just imagine your stereotypical rave. Thankfully, no one else could stand it either and we peaced out early. The "highlight" of Friday night would have to be the walk back. The club was far from South Kensington and to my annoyance the tube stops running at 12:30. SO we pretty much walked home, for 2 hours until we finally broke down and split a cab. The night buses here confuse the heck out of me because their routes don't go to all parts of the city. I gotta work on figuring those out.

The rest of weekend was better except for the cough I picked up on my 2 hours walk. On Saturday, we walked to Notting Hill to the famous Portobello Road for the Portobello Market. Tons of stalls, tons of people, it was amazing. I added some of the pics I took. The food was amazing (crepes, fresh greek, smoothies, it was never ending) and I spent way too much money on it. I will probably going back every Saturday I have a chance and buying stuff for myself and for Christmas presents.

On Sunday, we took a impromptu trip to Stonehedge and Winchester (it was a packaged deal). Yes, I rode 2 hours to visit a pile of rocks. It seriously is in the middle of nowhere, i'm talking fields and sheep surround it. So i guess it's kinda cool to wonder how they got there. Now I can say that I've seen another of the 7 wonders of the world (though I'm fuzzy on the list, we googled it and found different ones).

After that, we headed to the town of Winchester. It was of course historic and beautiful (i'm learning that every town here has more charm than at home). We walked around the shops, along the river, and through Winchester cathedral. We also stopped to take a picture of the house where Jane Austin lived. I thought that was kind of cool. However, apparently i'm the only Pride and Prejudice fan because not everyone knew who she was. Where is Preetal when you need her? I know she would be enthusiastic about this.

Overall, it was a nice day trip and I was able to see the countryside and take lots of pic. I discovered a new feature on my camera and became obsessed with it. However, I noticed when going through my pictures that i'm not really in any of them. I will have to work on that this week. Thankfully, there are 3 or 4 Facebook albums online that the rest of the Albion girls put up in case you need to see more. With 8 Albion brits in London, this semester is getting VERY well documented.