Well, I flew thousands of miles, and the first business I see after getting off the plane is... Starbucks. It made me laugh, so I bought a tea, that's where my first dollar was spent overseas. Then I rode the Tube to Picadilly Circus, I got above ground and was surrounded by beautiful buildings with columns and carvings everywhere, and the buildings were just boring old businesses, nothing special. So this is my first impression of London. I walked around and saw Buckingham Palace, St James Place, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. They were all very big and beautiful, just like they look in pictures. I wandered around the River Thames (which is very dirty- ick) and hopped aboard a boat to eat fish and chips and drink some tea overlooking the
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