Greetings from London!

Anne Hathaway Cottage

Shakespeare's Family Home

Warwick Castle

Warwick Castle

Wow, this week has flown by. On Sunday evening as usual, I tuned in to my new favorite British television show- Dancing on Ice. Not going to lie, this show is AMAZING. It's basically Dancing with the Stars except on ice.

Anyway on Monday, I went to work as usual. After work, I went to The Guardian, one of the national newspapers here in the U.K. for my international journalism class field trip. It was really interesting to see how a large newspaper operates. The building was brand-new, swanky and very high-tech. (Although I personally think that the MSN building is way nicer- but that's just my opinion). It was neat minus the 30 minutes I spent walking around aimlessly looking for the building.

On Wednesday, I went to Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon and my favorite part of the day- a European football game. I was pleasantly surprised by Warwick Castle. I actually got to go inside the castle which made it a million times more interesting. The best part of the castle was walking the 500 plus stairs in the tower/rotunda. The view at the top, and for that matter along the way, was breathtaking. After Warwick Castle, I went to Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. While it was interesting to see the historic cottages, I preferred the old-fashioned sweet shop directly across from Shakespeare's home. I then indulged on way too much delicious fudge on the 2 and 1/2 hour bus ride back to London. For those interested, I got two medium packages of fudge- one was milk chocolate with nougat and the other was maple-walnut. The maple-walnut fudge was ten times better than the milk chocolate, which tasted very similar to a Snickers bar.

But, the football game was definitely the best part of the day. The game was at Craven Cottage Stadium, home of the Fulham Football Club, in West London (not too far away from Chelsea actually). On this Wednesday night, Fulham played Blackburn. Interesting tidbit, Fulham is owned by the guy who owns Harrods. Anyway, the stadium was fairly big as to be expected. Sadly, Fulham lost. The score was 2-1. More to come on my adventures soon. Cheers!