First stop: London.

I am going to do each city as a separate post to keep myself organized.

So, on Tuesday May 26, Alex arrived in London a few hours before my dad departed for the US. We took the Tube to the train station from which we would catch the Eurostar to Paris. Since we had plenty of time, we left St. Pancras and stumbled upon the British Library by accident. I would never have gone there otherwise, and I would have missed out on seeing the Magna Carta, Shakespeare's first folio, handwritten Beatles lyrics, and a million other cool things.

We also made it to the British Museum and saw the Rosetta Stone before heading back to the train station. The train ride was not long at all and we made it to Paris before we had time to play but a few hands of cards. (We played a lot of cards during the 2 weeks.)

We got to our hostel in the Latin Quarter and after a brief walk ate a great supper at a restaurant on Rue Mouffetard. The hostel was kind of ratty, but as it was the first one we didn't have high expectations yet.