Day 1-London or Hades?

My first time in London was hot! And no, not just regular hot, but "nobody uses air conditioning units" hot! It was so hot that Kai (my best friend who I carried along on my European adventure) and I were literally walking around the city looking for businesses with air conditioning and free wifi just to cool down. Picture this. It's 5 o clock in the afternoon. Everyone's heading home from work. The train is jam packed, not even a little space to scratch your forehead. It's 90 degrees F and there's no air conditioning on the train. Now picture yourself on this train. 4 stops and this train takes you right to Hades. But anyways apparently this was the hottest day in London over the last few years and it usually never gets this hot, which is why many places in London don't have cold air built into their infrastructure. I was just lucky enough to be there on this day.

Anyways, apart from the heat I enjoyed every part of sight seeing in London. Seeing that all we brought on this trip were our backpacks (and a tent which will be explained on day 2), as soon as we landed in London on Wednesday morning we took the train directly from Heathrow airport to the city and got tickets for the hop-on hop-off sight seeing bus. It's called the Original tour and I would suggest that if you're going to London to do the Big Bus tour instead cause they have more buses on their routes. Our first entry into London was through Trafalgar Square and we were immediately wowed by the architecture. It was like rel neverseecomesee! These two black Caribbean boys that had never been anywhere except to America and the Caribbean found themselves in the middle of London Wednesday morning, selfie stick in hand, ready to explore.

Now I am not typically interested in History just cause I think it's boring but for some reason I thought that the tours were quite interesting. One thing I can remember specifically was when the bus dropped us off to see Buckingham Palace that we had to walk quite a bit to get to the street where the palace was located. The tour guide said that one morning Queen Victoria woke up and saw the big red buses in front of the palace and thought that it was too ugly to be there so she banned them from passing in front of the palace ever since. We also saw the Big Ben, the London Tower (and some other places I can't remember the names of), and went on a river cruise down the Thames river.

After sight seeing we contacted my cousin who gladly offered her place for us to stay while we were in London, and decided to meet in Convent gardens (I absolutely love this place). After getting lost many times and final

ly finding the meeting spot we then took the train to Hades on the way to her house. As soon as we got home we got cleaned up and went back into the city for some late night exploring on our own. The most difficult part for us was navigating without internet which we somehow managed to do but it was all an adventure and that's the purpose of this trip.