Stonehenge & Windsor Castle, England

On our last day in London, we woke up bright and early, Drew took the tube while I slept in (Oh the joys of being sick on vacation) and picked up the rental car.

We rented a car through Sixt. It came with unlimited kilometers and it was our way to catch our early flight out of the airport the next morning.

According to Google Maps, Stonehenge is about an hour and 45 minutes away. An hour on the high way then 45 on little back roads. Stonehenge is in the middle of NO WHERE.
We spent maybe 45 minutes on the highway then the rest of the time on a little two lane road. All the tourist attractions outside of cities always seem to be in the middle of no where.
I had heard it was better to buy tickets in advance because of the tours of people that came, so I went on Stonehenge's website and bought tickets. I would suggest doing this because the lines were crazy when we got there!

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London, England

In March 2014, Drew & I dropped the dogs off at the boarders and headed down to Nuremberg, to head to London, England. This was our first flight with Ryanair. Ryanair is fantastic! It was under 200 euros RT to London Stansted. It was a 2 hour direct flight, of course one of the things I remember about this trip was how I was so sick. 2 days before I had finally called sick out of work only to find out I had a sinus infection! Flying, or traveling of any kind while you are sick is just the worst!

We arrived in London early afternoon, gaining an hour since Germany is an hour a head of England. Since England is not a part of the European Union we had to go through customs (make sure when traveling you have the address of where you are staying, IDK why they asked for it, but they did) and I got another stamp in my passport. :)

London Stansted is an hour out of the city of London. I did research and found a bus that would take us to the main train station, Victoria station, and from there we could use the tube to our hotel. Only thing, was that the lines were incredibly long and when we finally got to talk to someone, he said that it was better to take the tube on our own because our hotel was no where near where they would drop us off. So we followed the signs (Everything's in English! YAY!) and found the train.We talked to the cashier and told her where we wanted to go, and she gave us directions and the tube station where we wanted to go to.

London <3

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