25 March 2014
Bright (well dark) and early at 4AM, my friends Kacey, Cassie and Amanda and I grabbed our luggage, hopped on the bus to Centralstation and then another bus to Stockholm Arlanda to hop on a plane to our vacation in London for a week.
The view for Sweden from the plane.
Once we landed, in the London Gatwick airport, we took a train from the airport and then from the train station the London tube to our stop and then walking 2 miles to our apartment.
It takes a lot of transportation to travel to a country.
This is my friend Kacey looking out into the distance.
Secretly she's thinking about breakfast, which I was thinking about too.
London Train Station
Victoria Train Station Tube
The route to our stop.
Highbury & Islington.
Note to future posts, the London tube is very confusing and it took me 6 days to figure it out. Even then, I was still hesistant.
The moment we stepped off the London Tube we saw this pub.
WELCOME TO LONDON!
That white door was the door to our apartment, the restaurant was a Mediterranean bistro that we never ended up going to.
Oops
Pizza Hut was right next to our apartment, which was to our excitement as the thought of thick crust pizza had our mouths drooling.
Note: Sweden does not have thick crust pizza, it's thin and healthy which for an American is unacceptable.
I am sorry Swedes, but nothing compares to greasy, unhealthy, thick crust pizza.
Our apartment was still getting cleaned, we dropped off our luggage and explored the neighborhood, Islington, where we would stay for the next week.
Also, London has a Dog Squad in the park.
English Dog Squad. Don't bloody hell mess with them.
Obligatory red phone booth picture.
Another fun fact: These phone booths are not rare to find in London.
They are everywhere.
Another Obligatory red phone booth picture, pretending to call someone.
And yes, this picture was planned and I purposely wore my red dress to match the phone booth.
Yes, I think about my outfits in advance, but let's not get into that.
After an hour of exploring, our apartment was ready and clean and we could finally take pictures of the place before trashing it.*
*Trashing it, meaning that clothes, purses and suitcases all over the place #girlissues
This was our living room and Kacey.
My friend Cassie was attempting to take a panorama of the living room, which is why Kacey is posing.
The master bedroom.
There was only one bed in the tiny apartment, where we took turns sleeping in for the week.
The tiny kitchen that only held up to 3 people at the most.
And yes we had a washing machine in the kitchen, which didn't surprise me.
Our apartment had a balcony with little Japanese lanterns if we want to sit out at night.
We didn't. This balcony was never used the whole week we were there.
Oops.
After taking pictures of the apartment, we unpacked, semi-trashed the place and met up with our friend Sofie, who had taken a later flight, and ventured off to sight see the tourist parts of London.
Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and London Eye
Worst news ever
During our time at the palace we noticed that we blended in well. Taking pictures of every angle of the place. Noticing that we weren't the only ones, here is a segment that I like I too call:
PICTURECEPTION (me taking pictures of people taking pictures)
Segment done.
Big Ben!
And I quote
"BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG!"
The London Eye: a giant ferries wheel built in the late 90s and opened in 2000. Each bubble in the ferris wheel hold about 15 plus people and moves slowly seeing the view of London.
Around 25 pounds, and waiting in line for over an hour to then go on for 2 plus hours, we decided to NOT to go on the London Eye and just admire it from afar.
After being tourists on the first day, we returned back to our apartment, made dinner and had some wine and then settled into bed to start our tour bright and early at 8AM.
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