Day 1 of London

(Originally Written April 3, 2015)

Day 1 of our London trip.

We arrived in London to find that one of luggage had lost its wheel on the flight. So we dragged it from Heathrow through the tube to our hotel. On that voyage we passed an Islamic center right at the time for Friday prayers. To make the street even more crowded some Londoners had stationed a protest of the Islamic center bringing throngs of journalists and policemen to the area. Not, the most pleasant of experiences.

After a quick check in we went out for the day, heading to Piccadilly Square, randomly finding the first ever red phone booth and putzed around the city a bit. We headed to the Kensington Gardens to see the Peter Pan statue before getting caught in the rain. We decided that it was dinner time and went to Islington to hit up this vegetarian Indian restaurant. Very good food, very strange décor. Before we got to the restaurant though Erin discovered a fruit shop where we got passion fruit, figs, green coconut, blood oranges, fresh dates, guavas and something called snake fruit.

Being jetlagged and a bit tired, we headed home for the evening and found that we could see the London Eye from our hotel room. Pretty good day overall.