Hello all. Today was another exciting and riveting day... I'm just kidding we were on a train for 4.5 hours. We woke up in Glasgow and killed some time in the morning just lounging around, I still am not feeling quite better yet, so I was not much interested in going and trying to see anything before leaving. We did eventually get out of bed and made our way into the town for some breakfast before our noon train to London. We had a pleasant little breakfast in a small basement cafe near the train station. After eating some porridge and yogurt (I ate the yogurt, Ben had the porridge), we hopped over to the train station.
We tried to get onto the train we were suppose to get on only to be told we could not bring our bikes with us... Which is a bit of an issue, so we had to go to the ticketing office. In the ticketing office the ticket man wrote us a note asking that we please be allowed onto the next train with our bikes (I am not joking he really just wrote a note). Regardless we boarded the 12:40 train to London, everything was squared away, and our note was accepted as good enough. The train ride was lengthy and all together uneventful, I did take some picture though so please enjoy the lovely English countryside.
Once we rolled into London we went to go check in to our AirBnB. This will turn out to be an interesting stay. We are staying in a little studio apartment all to ourselves, but we are the first guests in this particular AirBnB and it shows. The locks to the door did not work at first, there was no cooking equipment, many of the light bulbs are burnt out, and so on... Luckily we are only staying here two nights so it won't be the end of the world.
After checking into the AirBnB we ran out to the bike store that we had communicated with about shipping our bikes home. I will say this if you want to fear for your life and feel very alive then try biking during rush hour in London... It is terrifying and more than slightly mad. We did eventually make it to the bike shop alive and unharmed. The people at the shop were very helpful and they took our bikes and told us to come back in a couple days with the other gear we want to shove in with the bikes and they would take care of it for us, which is great. That means that Ben and I can both get rid of about half the things we are carrying in our bags for the rest of the trip.
After getting all this stuff squared away we went to dinner and had some "proper" hamburgers, in other words American style hamburgers. The burger were actually really quite good and the milkshakes were really good and thick. Since we were now bike less and I was tired we decided to get an Uber to drive us to our apartment from the burger shop. This was an interesting experience because I sat in the front passenger seat of the car, meaning I sat in the front left hand side of the car, while the car drove without my input. My brain was really confused for the whole trip as to where the steering wheel was, and what was going on... Because normally when I am sitting in that position I am driving. But alas we did eventually make it back to our "great" apartment and just settled down for the night.
Tomorrow we are going to go to the British Museum and see about finding somewhere to wash our biking clothes so that way they are not biological weapons at the end of their shipping experience to the States. Anyway that is all I have for you, I apologize for yet another bland post (if you stop reading the blog until Iceland on June 26th I would understand. We are going to be camping in Iceland so that will probably be more exciting, not to mention all the amazing landscapes and the fact that I had better be over this cold by then). Best wishes and until next time.
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