After many, many hours in JFK airport, I have finally arrived in London! My flight ended up leaving about 5 hours late due a "hydraulic leak", so we disembarked and reboarded before finally leaving at around 3:15am EST (8:15am BST). We arrived just before 3pm BST, so after going through customs I finally left Heathrow airport at around 4pm.
My first time on the Tube was nothing but memorable: a rowdy, most likely drunken crowd of young men wearing black suits in varying stages of formality boarded just after I did at the terminal. The one who sat down next to me told me that they were rugby players from Amsterdam, so of course I thought it was hilarious (and immediately thought of my rugby-playing friends!). They got off at the stop just before mine, so I spent a good hour with them, talking about New York and rugby and travelling and such. They asked me if I'd come visit them in Amsterdam... we'll see about that!
My hostel is very nice - as soon as I arrived, I took a nap. Yay.
Tomorrow: meeting up with Dr Fonder!
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