Day 1
So we went to London [June 11th 2012, in the Netherlands would it be as '11-06-2012'].
We had an amazing time together! the only thing what got on my nerves was the bus travel to london. We were in a traffic jam, and the bus was driving to slowly, it felt like it was an endless road from the netherlands, through belgium/france to London. We arrived in London, at the hotel The royal national, an hour later than we expected.
But, we knew our ways so when we got our hotel keys, ran towards the lift [elevator]. ran through an almost endless hallway [with contantly visions of the twins from the movie the Shining :P]. opened the door and threw our suitcases inside, and made our way first to Sainsbury's, to get some food and drink and when that was done we made our way to Russel Square/Piccadilly line underground.
And there we were in Piccadilly Circus! It was late though, it was raining hard, and shops were closed, except for HMV, and that was the reason why we went :P. Tayfun bought a lot of dvd's and a shirt from Family guy. Soaked from the rain, but we went back happy after all.
Day 2
was also a rainy day, but not as much as the first day.
We went to Camden/Stables market. But we arrived there to early, the stores weren't open yet.
It's our favorite place to be if you want something entirely different. we bought a lot of things there, even the souvenirs for our families. I even bought souvenirs for my own, lol.
I also bought two shirts, with a print from the art of Banksy.
Tayfun bought some shirts there [five in total]. There is also someone who sells fresh orange juice on the corner of some street there, my favorite drink so far, it was delicious!
The best place to eat is at Stables Market, you have there all kinds of food, we ate pizza ;).
Then we made our way back to the hotel, threw our stuff there, and walked to the British Museum, what was just 10 minutes away from us. There was a lot to see, I can't really explain what I saw, you have to see it for yourself :) We loved it.
Day 3
was Big Ben day, a very nice and sunny day, and all of the things that's around. I was excited when I saw the house of parliament + Big Ben. We made photos of it, and photo's of us with the big ben on the background. we ate icecream, and we had a nice background music from a man with a bagpipe.
We saw the London's Eye, we didn't go in though. It was crowded!, and I don't want to waste an half hour just for being up there+ an half hour for waiting to be next, we don't have the time for that :P. so we walked around and we saw some street performers and we walked over the hugerford bridge back, and walked to St james park. St James Park is a very beautiful park, with a lot of squirls, but to be honest we have seen squirls there in every park, there was even one squirell in park nearby our hotel :D. We bought a peanut bag [the ones with the shell still on it] to feed the squirls, it was fun :). I wished we had parks like that here in the Netherlands, I think that they have parks in noord/zuid Holland. But not here in Brabant.
We searched on our way back for the Sherlock Holmes pub, we didn't know that we walked passed it when we were on our way to the Big Ben, we found it and made a photo of it, lol :D.
Day 4
We went back to Camden, because we had enough time still left before we went to Hyde park and Kensington Gardens, it was going to be a long trip [we always walk ;)] so we bought the delicious orange juice again and some food before we left camden for our 'pilgrim' walk towards the park. We first needed to walk our way through Oxford street, not our kind of shops ;) it was crowded and the weather was hot! After a while we entered hyde park, the park was big and very beautifull, very alive.
people walking, sporting, being there with there kids, picknicking, sleeping on the grass. VERY ALIVE. I really liked the atmosphere. we sat there in the grass for a while, drinking, resting, eating making photo's, of course. and after being a bit rested we made our way to Kensington Gardens.
At first we were a bit lost, it's a very big place. but we found it, and it was beautiful and very big D:
and again very alive, you don't see that here. astonishing[ I am someone who loves parks, and nature and such ;P]. '
Day 5
Our way back to the netherlands, lots of traffic jam, tired, rainy weather.
I made 500 photo's ;)
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