The Hatch

Since London I've spent the last couple of weeks in middle of nowhere on a little farm in worcestershire with my cousin. Its pretty much your typical English country home with plenty of hills, hedgerows, and sheep of course. It's definitely one of the most beautiful areas in England though.

Although I am in the middle of nowhere, I've been keeping plenty busy. I've gone to visit some of the small towns around here which are super cool just because everything is so old. I swear there is a 500 year old church everywhere you look. I've also gone to see some of the more well known places in Worcestershire such as Ludlow, the malvern hills, and Worcester (sauce city). All of which I'd definitely recommend anyone visiting. I've also been able to experience the pub scene fairly well, and with that comes English bar food and warm beer. There are nature walks a plenty out here so of course I've been able to go on a few of those as well.

Also in living out here in the English countryside I've been able to partake in the tradition of plucking/semi gutting a pheasant, which wasn't that bad after I spent 30 mins crying.

Some things i've noticed are that I've had more tea in the last couple of weeks than in my entire life. There is a condiment called brown sauce which is new to me which the English put on almost everything it seems like. Apparently every person in the uk despises Margaret thatcher to put it lightly, they were planning her funeral at one point. Finally, my advice to anyone visiting England is if you're ever served black pudding, don't ask what it is.

Week 1

Thought I'd be going on this thing more often than I have been, but now is a good time to look back on my first week in England. London was really nice. As a tourist I found out you in fact do not need a map to navigate your around. Just walk in one direction for a really long time, find some cool stuff along the way then once you get lost locals can just smell a lost tourist somehow and they pretty much just come up to you and tell you where you need to go. Also found out that Indian restaurants are deceiving, but Moroccan restaurants are awesome. In Hyde park alone exists every known breed of dog to ever exist, even the ones everyone thought were extinct. Also met some really interesting people in the hostel I stayed at. I found out that you do not need to be of youth to stay at a hostel. In the end London is still my favorite city on earth, but if I stayed there any longer I'd be eating too many apples and mixed nuts... so bloody expensive, but the free museums make up for it.. Finally anyone who goes to London needs to go to the royal Albert and Victoria museum... it's awesome, especially trajans column

Going away dinner

A delicious going away dinner with the fam at redwood lodge for my last American meal

Day 1

Off to a good start so far, remembered everything... I think. I sat next to Jordan Taylor's brother on my first flight to Cleveland so at this rate hopefully on the flight to London I'll be seated next to robin van persie's sister. Looking forward to hanging with the Brits though, just hoping I don't offend too many people while I'm there. Ive been working on my Canadien accent though to ease any animosity people might have towards the land of McDonald's. Finally if airport food is any indicator of the price of food in Europe, I'm going to be eating a lot of apples and mixed nuts. My arteries will be nice and clean when I come back in August :)