Explore.Dream.Discover.: Trip #2: Nottingham

The trip began with us foolishly thinking that 1. Megabus would leave from the bus station because 2. megabus was a bus. Well, we were wrong on both accounts because Megabus is in fact EastMidlands Trains and therefore leaves from the train station.

It was a very nice train...

So then we got confused because everyone else had actual print out tickets from a machine and all we had was the reference number from when we bought it online. We asked multiple people, looking like true morons and then just decided to hop on the train and hope for the best. At first Erica and I sat in someone else's reserved seat, so we had to awkwardly move; but the conductor ended up never asking us for our tickets, so we were happy campers. On the way home we asked a ticket vendor what was up and he explained that we actually did the right thing, that since we bought it online it was "ticketless travel." We quickly realized that this meant we could have just gotten on a train with nothing and claimed ticketless travel without paying, but we're better than that.

Once we arrived it was about 8pm and we were starving! Unfortunately around 8 all the nice restaurants are packed and most of the decent ones are closed. So what did we do? Head to YoYo Noodle. It was either that or McDonald's so we decided to take the risk. And it was delicious!

yummy stir fry

Sorry this is turning into a detailed play-by-play, I'll fast forward.

On Saturday we went to Nottingham Castle and saw the Robin Hood Statue.

And played some dress-up in the hood...

After the Castle we went to the oldest Inn/Pub in England. It is built into the hilly rocks that the castle is on so its basically a cave.

Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Inn

We then went to the Museum of Nottingham Life which had a section of caves you could go into that they used during WWII for protection from the bombings. Next we made our way to St.Mary's Church which was cool because we were the only ones in there... then we spent the rest of the day going to a few other historical sites, etc. and found some cute shops.