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London (just for 1 night)

11/13/2019

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Wednesday, 13 November 2019

I forgot to mention that when we checked into the hotel in Liverpool yesterday they said that they were upgrading us to a bigger room.  I'm pretty sure that even though the room was bigger, it wasn't an upgrade because the room was right on the main street and there was crazy noise all night.  Drunks yelling at all hours of the night, recycling trucks sucking up glass from a bin (or at least that is what it sounded like), a garbage truck later on in the morning, lots of noise.

Anyway, I didn't sleep well, but the noise didn't even seems to bother Tim at all.  The good news is that the only plan today is to take a train to London.  Our train is at 11:47 AM, so we were able to sleep in a little bit which was nice.  Around 10 AM we headed out to find breakfast and sandwiches to take on the train.  We returned to the room, checked out, and walked the 5 minutes to the station.

We are traveling on Virgin Railway for a 2 hour train ride to London.  We boarded the train at 11:25 AM.  This train is pretty nice.  The ride is very smooth even traveling over 130 miles per hour...wow.
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We arrived in London right on time at 2 PM.  The hotel I found by the train station allows check-in starting at 2 PM, so we headed straight to the hotel and went up to our room.  We chilled out for a couple of hours and then headed out.  Of course we found a brewery, so we had a flight.
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Little Creatures Brewery, London, England, 13 November 2019
I found another brewery about 20 minutes away, so we finished up the flight and headed to it.  When we arrived there was a private party, so we couldn't get in.  So, we headed back to the hotel room.  We are only here in London for 1 night.  Tomorrow we catch a train to Brussels. 

Why are we going to Brussels?  Well, we have a bit of a Visa issue.  When we landed in Ireland we received a 3 month Visa which should of been fine since we were only going to be there for 30 days and then headed to the United Kingdom where they should give us a 6 month Visa.  The problem was that when we traveled to the UK we did go though immigration since there is an open border between Ireland and the UK.  Because of this open border, the UK and Ireland have an agreement that they would each accept the other countries Visa.  So, if we landed in the UK first, then we would have a 6 month Visa, but because we landed in Ireland first, we have a 3 month Visa.  Anyway...we are staying over here for 4 months and we have a 3 month Visa.  To get a new Visa, we have to travel outside of the UK.  The good news is that it is giving us the opportunity to travel though the Chunnel by train.  The easiest trains rides is to Paris or Brussels.  We were just in Paris a year ago, so we decided to travel to Brussels and spend a few days drinking Belgium beer and eating mussels.

Our train tomorrow is at 11 AM, but since it is an international trip we think we should show up at 9:30 AM to get though security and immigration.  We got back to the room before 6 PM so we watched TV and enjoyed our first night in London.
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