Down South.

I’m from Yorkshire and for the first time in my life, I went to London. This is a blog about my trip…

Before The Trip
London. Well what can I say? I’m not going to lie and say I was spazzing with happiness; in actual fact I hated the thought of it, the city has never really appealed to me. But I decided to be optimistic and try and enjoy the trip.

London Underground
We used the underground several times, probably about 50 over two days and I love it; the rushing feeling of wind powering down the tunnel before the train is immense. This is a map of the underground; appears rather complex, but it’s simple…kinda. It’s an experience and if you ever go to London use it. Not only is it easy and quicker, but it’s fun.

Celebrities
I didn’t see any, but I think I got confused for one. Often, like on the tube, people pointed at me, whispered and made others stare. This happened many times, making me paranoid something was sucking my brain, or very similar to it…Anyway, now I’m trying to find out who I look like, just out of curiosity.

Hyde Park
We walked through this on both days, and it was pretty cool. Got some great art photos too. It’s hard to believe that somewhere so tranquil is in the middle of such a busy city.

Day One

Tower Of London
So what’s it like; not very interesting. I mean the crown jewels were impressive, but it’s not my sort of thing, except ‘The Bloody Tower’, a small section dedicated to instruments of torture, but it really was small. There was also a statue, well a small memorial where people had been beheaded; that was interesting.

Tower Bridge
We walked across here, and while on it we saw some filming. There was a silver mini van on a filming truck, with a guy in it, who looked like:
-The Guy on the far left.
-With the curly hair of this guy
-In this sorta hat

I didn’t recognise him…but I guess I’ll have to look out for whatever he was filming for.

Thames
There’s a walk way at the side of the Thames, that we followed from Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge, passing such sights as the Globe, London Eye; and it’s quite a distance away, look it up on google maps if you so wish.

Houses Of Parliament/Big Ben
Walking past them, they seemed small. Well small compared to other things. There’s little more I can say, just that they were quite nice to see, and rather interesting, especially when we came back at night and Big Ben was all lit up,

Buckingham Palace
I don’t see the appeal; it was alright, just a big building. The queen was in, apparently, but still I was glad I saw it, just it wasn’t the highlight of my trip, just another posh building.

Downing Street
Did you know that if you’re dressed as a convincing police man you can get in? Someone walked up and was let in through the main gate before being turned away at the next security office for no pass. Rather ridiculous.

The British Museum
The Egyptian part was immense, some of the mummies were wrapped so tight you could make out features. I didn’t really find anything else interesting, but the mummies were immense, cats and bulls too; it was worth the long walk.

Day Two

Natural History Museum
If you want to visit it, get there early. We got there half an hour after opening and it was rather busy, but as we were about to leave a queue stretched out too far to see for the main exhibit; dinosaurs. They were amazing and they had this robotic t-rex that roared at you and moved, it looked brilliant, and I learnt some stuff.

Victoria and Albert Museum
Basically nothing of interest to me, there were some artists that I’m studying that I learnt about, and I made a hall mark on a piece of foil, because I’m awesome like that . But there wasn’t much, unless you wanted to queue for an hour, get a ticket, then queue for another hal an hour to get in; we couldn’t be bothered.

Science Museum
Bit of a let down. Not that interesting, especially since the Chemistry bit and top floor were under refurbishment, but it was a good experience, one of those ‘I’m glad I went there but I wouldn’t go again’ places.

Kensington Gardens
Originally part of Hyde Park, this is the same as Hyde Park, except it has the Diana Memorial Fountain. As well as the fountain there are children’s playgrounds and cafes in the park in her memory, things which seem to matter, but the fountain doesn’t seem worth it. I was told it cost 5 million. Shouldn’t the money be used for other things, say a small statue/memorial but give the rest to charity, I’m sure she’d rather that of happened.

Harrods
Poshness in a hat. It was rather amazing, huge and so unique, and we bought a robot hamster thing that runs about in a ball. And actually, rather surprisingly, it wasn’t overly expensive, just had lots of expensive things like diamond encrusted dog collars with rubies and emeralds.

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And these are the main parts of my two days. We went to other places like Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, Convent Garden, Royal Albert Hall…etc…but I didn’t want this blog to be too long and there’s little I can really say. But overall London was an amazing trip.