So ok, I've been back for almost a month now, but a lot of school work and pure laziness have kept me from writing about my wonderful adventures in the beautiful city of London. What you are about to read I wrote on the plane back from London, in a notebook that I got in the teen magazine Top of the Pops. :)
Friday 27/11
First I had to go to school (obviously, since our plane wasn't leaving untill 6:55 PM). I had PE first period and then sort of workshop untill lunch. After Lunch we had a Math-test that was way easier than I thought it would be (so I studied a few hours for, well, I was going to write nothing but that is not true... I learned a lot about graphs by heart and I can easily explain perpendicular and why two axis that are perpendicular have the product of -1) And now, a few weeks after, I know that I got a MVG (A) yay me!! xD
After the test, when I finally realised that you could leave once you were done, I said good-bye to most of my friends, who went home. E and I stayed in school untill 3:20 PM and then I went to meet my father. About 4 PM we got to mom's job where my father dropped me of. Mom got of work at 4:30 PM (I spent the 30 minutes talking to D and mostly S in my cell) and then we went to T-Centralen. From there we were to take the Arlanda Express to Arlanda (ofc), but luck was not with us so we missed one and never saw the second. When a train finally arrived we had to wait about 10 minutes for it to leave. We got to Arlanda 45 minutes before departure and had to rush to the plane, starving. We finally had some onion and cheese sandwich (I hate onions and they give you bad breath, I love garlic though xD) and I hadn't eaten since lunch.
TO PUT ON YOUR LIST OF THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
Fly to London on a clear night. It was so beautiful to see all the lights of the gigantic city when we flew in at 8.00 PM (local time). I was really overwhelmed.
After we landed it was an adventure in it's own to get to Cromwell road, Kensington. When we got to Majestic Hotel (do not recomend) I was really hungry and really tired. The best thing about the hotel was Sainsbury's, the neighbor. There we bought sandwiches, bagels, cheese, ham, and water which we brought back to the Hotel and ate. I fell asleep right away, it was about 11.30 PM, and after all, I had been awake since 6.00 AM.
Saturday 28/11
After we woke up, we got dressed and went downstairs for a breakfast at the hotel. We bought two continental breakfasts (and I just can't find the logic in the name because there is no way that breakfast's continental) with croissants, white bread (apparently scones), cereals, butter and jam. After breakfast we went to the Underground Station (Gloucester Road) and bought day-tickets. From there we took the Picadilly Line (too complicated to explain) to King's Cross (I <3 Harry Potter) where I took a few photos and then we went to Picadilly Circus. In Picaddilly (after I've taken a few shots of the fountain) we went to a store called Cool Britannia (we went there again on the Sunday). There I bought 2 things for S and a thing for L. I also bought a thing for D in a shop by the Underground. From Picadilly we walked to Waterloo Place and Trafalgar Sq. (and we saw the museums all around the place) we almost got all the way to Buckingham Palace but mom thought it was a bit far. Then wer took the Underground to Oxford Circus and we walked up and down the entire Oxford Street and went into several shops and a Christmas Market. We had Fish n' Chips for Lunch, but, according to my mother it was not real Fish n' Chips. Finally, well, quiet a while after Lunch, when I've had dutch-mini-pancakes we found Primark (really really recomend). O said it was a good place to shop. I bought 3 pairs of leggings, two sweaters, one pyjamas and a T-shirt.
After Oxford Street we went back to the hotel to rest before going to the London Eye. Due to delays, however, we got to the Eye too late. From there we walked over to Embankment from where we went to Picadilly Circus and ate at the Scotch Steak House. Dinner at 10.00 PM, lovely.
When we got back to the hotel I was exhausted but I took a shower anyways and thereafter I crawled into my new pyjama and then straight to bed.
Saturday weather: Clear untill noon and then clouds started to add up resulting in rain by afternoon time. The rain stayed 'til late evening and I guess the night. Sort of the same considering the amount of people. Not very many in the morning and after lunch it increased rapidly. They were everywhere.
Sunday 29/11
We woke up at 9 am by the phone ringing and someone screaming at broken English. After we fixed a few things with the hotel (we accidentally booked one night less than we needed) we went to a restaurant by the Gloucester Road Underground for breakfast. It was lovely but the ice in my water tasted chlorine, scary... When we'd finnished our breakfast we managed to get to Baker Street (so cool, Sherlock Holmes) and Madame Taussauds. Finally inside we realised that we forgot the loaded camera in the hotelroom (and we didn't think of buying batteries to my camera) so we bought one-time-use cameras. The visit was still wonderful and mom bought me a photo of me and Zac Efron <3 and one of me and Michael Jackson <3. When I get to go to Madame Taussauds again I need to have a real camera!!
After the Madame Taussauds visit we went to Covent Garden and had lunch at the Maxwell's (strongly recomend). The Lunch at Maxwell's was the best meal of the Journey!
After the lovely lunch we went to Harrods in Knightsbridge (only known word in the English language with six consonants in a row). If you don't know what Harrods is, search on wikipedia or google. At Harrods I bought a thing for O and a thing for E. I really missed all my friends!!!!
When we were done shopping we went to Waterloo to try our luck at the London Eye again. And we got Lucky! It was totally awesome to see London, in the evening, from the London Eye. Sadly it was raining. After the London Eye we went to Picadilly Circus and Cool Britannia once again, and then back to the hotel where we had dinner. At Cool Britannia I also got things for my brothers and my father (though mom paid for those stuff) and a T-shirt and a Bag <3 for myself. After another intense day I fell asleep fastly.
Weather: Rainy
Monday 30/11
I woke up early, 7 am, and praising God that I missed school that day. Wonderful! Then I got dressed (I went for black: Black Jeans, Black Boots and my new black London, England T-shirt) and did my make-up. When my mum got up I'd finnished all my packing and we got downstairs to check-out ;( We left our bagage at the hotel and walked to the restaurant where we had breakfast containing American pancakes and a not-so-good blueberry muffin. We went to Tooley Street where a Christmas Shop that mom wanted to see was located. At the station I bought a very good donut. After that we actually got to Buckingham Palace. In the park there were squirrels that were really cool, and came really close, very unlike swedish ones. When we once again got back to Picadilly we went to Gloucester Road and took a double-decker to the Palace Gates from where we walked up to Kensington Palace where we had an early Afternoon Tea. After the Afternoon Tea we took a double-decker back to Gloucester Road and walked to Sainsbury's where we bought cookies and candy and a cute snowman singing "Let it snow!" which we realised wasn't so pretty after my "adorable" mini-brother pressed the button until we all grew mental. I also bought a thing for L. Sadly, we had to go back to the hotel, get our bagage and go to Heathrow. Even though we were out in a good time we didn't get to eat at the airport. So, here I am, an hour 'till we land in Stockholm and even though I know I have loads of Homework and I miss my friends so much I just wanna go back to the wonderful city of Stockholm.
Events in my life from after this amazing trip will be posted another time, cuz I'm basicly falling asleep here...
Time difference does matter!!!
Tidsdifferensen. Haha, nu lät jag smart xD
Love all my friends, TTYL
Frida
