{"id":8761,"date":"2013-05-12T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:16:51","slug":"fish-n-chips-ahoy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/fish-n-chips-ahoy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish &#8216;n Chips Ahoy! by Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For weeks I have been hearing the song &#8220;Good Life&#8221; on the radio, which starts off with the lyrics: &#8220;Woke up in London yesterday, found myself in the city near Piccidilly&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0Well, today that finally came true and I couldn&#8217;t be happier about it. \u00a0The day started off with a simple breakfast at the hotel, and off at 9 for a bus tour around London. \u00a0The day&#8217;s weather started off lovely, mild with blue skies. \u00a0We saw all the highlights you would expect to see in London: Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace (along with a changing of the guard) Tower of London, the list goes on and on. \u00a0After a lunch break near Coventry Gardens, we were off on our Charles Dickens walking tour. \u00a0The rain rolled in as the walking started, but it didn&#8217;t dampen the beauty of London&#8217;s historic buildings. \u00a0After a Fish &amp; Chips dinner along the Themes River, we were able to disperse to spend the evening as we wished.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I am determined to enjoy every moment of London and absorb as much as I can. \u00a0London is everything I expected it to be, modern, internation and cosmopolitan, yet it still manages to surprise me. \u00a0It is like New York, if New York was clean everywhere. \u00a0London also isn&#8217;t a 24 hour city like I expected it to be. \u00a0The tubes stop running after midnight. \u00a0Also, I was surprised at the number of shops that were closed on Saturdays and Sundays, or had limited hours.<\/p>\n<p>To me, our shared American\/British history helps make London a very comfortable place to visit. \u00a0I don&#8217;t feel like a stranger in a strange land, I feel comfortable, even if things are a bit unfamiliar. \u00a0I know I have only been here a few days, but I already know I will be back after this trip is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For weeks I have been hearing the song &#8220;Good Life&#8221; on the radio, which starts off with the lyrics: &#8220;Woke up in London yesterday, found myself in the city near Piccidilly&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0Well, today that finally came true and I couldn&#8217;t be happier about it. \u00a0The day started off with a simple breakfast at the hotel, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/fish-n-chips-ahoy-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fish &#8216;n Chips Ahoy! by Scott<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-8761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-western-europe-business","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22177,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/22177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}