{"id":5080,"date":"2013-02-18T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:25:52","slug":"london-calling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5081\" href=\"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/londonskyline2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5081\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonSkyline2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonSkyline2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonSkyline2-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5081\" href=\"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/londonskyline2\/\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5084\" href=\"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/londonday1-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5084\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonDay1-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonDay1-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonDay1-5-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long time no see! Sorry about that&#8211; it&#8217;s been rather hectic in this neck of the woods. I&#8217;m back in Europe for my second semester of studying abroad, this time I&#8217;ll be spending the next term in London! It was absolutely lovely being home for the holidays, but it felt far too short. So far, the city has been absolutely amazing. I haven&#8217;t gotten much time to explore on my own yet, but my study abroad program took us on a bus tour the other day which was a great way of seeing the sights and getting oriented. London is so much bigger than Amsterdam, so navigating the city is proving to be a bit more challenging. I miss being able to bike anywhere I needed to go within a half an hour!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll be finding &#8220;my&#8221; spots in London soon. I&#8217;ve been scoping out cute cafes in the hopes that I&#8217;ll find somewhere that I&#8217;ll become a regular (they knew my name and drink order back in Amsterdam&#8211; probably means I drink too much coffee!). And with any luck, I&#8217;ll be volunteering at the Victoria and Albert museum! Now I just need to work on my British accent and I&#8217;ll be all set \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5087\" href=\"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/londonday1-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5087\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonDay1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonDay1-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonDay1-3-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5088\" href=\"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/londoneye\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5088\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonEye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonEye.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/02\/LondonEye-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no see! Sorry about that&#8211; it&#8217;s been rather hectic in this neck of the woods. I&#8217;m back in Europe for my second semester of studying abroad, this time I&#8217;ll be spending the next term in London! It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/02\/18\/london-calling-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emma-de-vries-14-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}