Off to Leeds!

Thursday, May 8th:


We woke up this morning and ate another English breakfast which consisted of bacon, eggs, tomatoes, baked beans, and toast. It was sad to leave Sandra and Doug this morning because they were so welcoming to us. Sandra and Doug were the owners of the Pub/Hotel/Restaurant and the Hostel. They served us breakfast, drinks, and supper everyday that we were in Greenhead. They even kept us up to date on our news because we were away from a TV and Internet the whole time we were there.


After breakfast, we walked to catch a bus to take us to Haltwhistle where we got on a train to head to Leeds. Our train ride today was gorgeous! We went through the Pennine hills and through the Yorkshire country.


We are now in Leeds, and this is a lot different of a city than we are used to. It’s modern and full of people our age! There are around 75,000 university students here, and the town shows of it. We were walking to find somewhere to eat tonight, and there was trash everywhere. We had a bad first impression of it here, that’s for sure. We don’t know if there was some sort of a festival going on before we got here, but the garbage cans were over flowing and it just looked dirty.


We are only here for a night, and we’re headed to London for our final stretch of the trip. We are going to have a busy last 5 days of our trip because there’s so much that we all want to do! We just don’t have enough time or money to do everything we want!


I also noticed today that I’m breaking out from something, possibly the water. I have red blotches all over certain areas of my skin, but it might just be from all the sun we have been getting over the past 3 days. O well, I’ll hopefully live!! =) Well, it’s off for a night in Leeds, I’ll see you all back home in 6 days!


Oh, and all of you back home will be happy to know that I’m going to take a little trip out to Wimbledon! Yay!