You've discovered
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
memtracks, a travel blog for Molly M. This was created mainly for friends and family to keep up with the fun while across the pond (and various other land-masses). Feel free to check out the pictures, read the (hopefully) witty commentary, and leave your own comments.
Wish you were here!
- Location:The World
Tokyo is huge and we have a week until school starts. Obviously, this is the time to explore. On Saturday, we headed to Ikebukuro, a young person's hang out that is actually quite near us (and with our new commuter's pass, we can go there for free!). It was time for exploring and longing for things that were too expensive to buy.
( Adventures in Tokyo~ )
Well, the day started with a bang (literally!) as Mitch somehow got through airport security with a bomb on his hat. This picture was taken in the Vancouver BC airport which is quite possibly the nicest airport I have ever been in, full of food and high class shopping and waterfalls and canoes and giant aquarium walls. New favorite airport.
( 日本にようこそ！ )
The next day, I woke up early and headed to the Sherlock Holmes Museum. This was the first of my few solo sightseeing adventures, as everyone else complained about having too many papers to write. To that I say fooey because I wrote four papers (43 pages) and did all this sightseeing and was still the only person to return from London with all of her papers finished. Obviously it can be done. ANYWAYS, I set off by myself and explored the Sherlock Holmes Museum which was everything I wanted it to be.
( Goodbye London )
After a long hiatus (with no excuse), the travel blog is back! I intend to finish my semester in London in the next few entries today. Hang onto your hats, folks.
This ominous looking pathway was the path into Waterlow Park, a park you must venture through to get to Highgate Cemetery and Karl Marx's grave. Nushi and I got it into our heads that we were going to go and see it. Unfortunately, on this particular day, we left a little too late and arrived exactly as the cemetery was closing it's gates (at 4!). So all we have to show for our efforts are lots of pictures of a kind of dark and gloomy park.
( Sightseeing began to pick up in the last few weeks )
Paris! Paris was our destination on November 24th. We set off from St. Pancras International at 7:30 in the morning. I'm not going to lie; I was a little sad our destination was not Disneyland Paris. :)
( The City of Lights )
It was at this point in my London career that my parents came to visit. This is only the first half of their trip as day four was Paris and probably 1/4 of all my pictures from this semester are from that single day. So, the 24th will be skipped over in this entry and will have it's own entry, which will probably appear right after I finish this entry. Anyways, on the 21st, my mom was awake and ready to explore while my dad just wanted to sleep. Leaving him in the hotel room, we went out to Oxford Street and Picadilly Circus to sight see a bit.
( The Muldoons Infiltrate London! )
Well, I returned from Copenhagen and promptly turned 21. There are, unfortunately, no pictures from my birthday as not much of anything was done on my birthday. I turned the big two one standing in line at the Post Office and the only celebration was my friends going to a nice birthday dinner with me where I scarfed down a bowl of tori domburi and laughed at everyone for ordering too little. No, the true point of this entry will be the two walks Nushi and I went on in November. The first was for my Representing London in the 18th Century class, which I'm writing this post to take a break from writing a paper for right now actually. The walk consisted of going to places of social importance in the 1700s and learning something. That might have happened. We definitely saw stuff, though.
( Lots of pictures of old things. Also, nature. )
As an English college, Queen Mary has a week called Reading Week where you simply do not have class. In theory, it means you spend that week writing papers and catching up on homework. In practice, you travel the world. I followed Mary back to her current town of Copenhagen, Denmark and decided to take a shot at this "to be or not to be" nonsense.
Just a warning, there will be a lot of pictures in this entry. As I type this, 90 pictures are being uploaded on my server. So, if your computer is really slow, maybe borrow someone else's.
( Friendly old girl of a town )
If you will remember, in our last meeting, Tally was visiting and we were waiting on Mary. Well, Mary soon appeared and we took London by storm. When we weren't relaxing in my room, that is.
( Mary and Molly and Tally, Oh My! )
On Friday, October 24th, Tally (one of my best friends from highschool/home) arrived in London. After a mess of trying to pick her up at the airport, we arrived back at my place and relaxed. Our other dear friend, Mary, would not arrive until the following day around midnight so we spent Saturday wandering. We expected to maybe see something a little famous. Instead, we inadvertently saw pretty much anything you would ever hope to see on a postcard. This day is so epic, it gets it's own picture post. Dial up users, beware.
( A Short Walking Tour of London )
It was Carey's Birthday on last Saturday and we celebrated twice. On Friday, we all went out to Hard Rock Cafe. The food there is delicious, by the way. We got seated right away (birthday magic?) and relaxed and ate there for two hours.
( Lots of Birthday Fun This Week )
There will be many museums in this entry, as we've visited a few in the past few weeks. This one here is the Natural History Museum. Look how beautiful that architecture is, though. It didn't even have to have anything in it to be awesome. Fortunately, the Natural History Museum was ripe to be photographed and all museums in England are free so it was like a smorgasbord of entertainment.
( More Museum Fun Under Here! )
We went on a bus tour of London that first week. I took lots of pictures which are vaguely useless as they are taken from a bus and are mainly for my own reference. Only the really cool ones (read: I actually left the bus to take) are included in this, our next installment of Molly in London. Here I am at the London Tower Bridge. It's probably my favorite bridge over the Thames (and yes, I do have quite the selection). You might remember it from our nighttime tour but here it is in daylight and not blurry. A vast improvement.
( But the London fun does not end there... (Image Heavy) )
I'm starting to become used to it now but boats like to cruise down the canal outside my window. It was surprising the first time, though, and I took a picture. Now I just kind of want to join them; it looks like fun.
( Welcome Weekend at Queen Mary )
Anushka and I arrive in Terminal 5. Unfortunately, there is no one there to meet us and we have to make the half hour journey to Terminal 3.
( Welcome to Queen Mary! )
- Mood:
tired - Music:~Jason Mraz~The Forcast~
