Ok guys i know i took like a week longer than i said, but i don´t have much time weekdays and i´ve been a bit lazy too, so i never got around to that update i was talking about. BUT, here it is.
Day1: Ok, so i left for London Monday afternoon and arrived at about 8pm in London. My cousin came to pick us up and we drove down to London. We got to his house at about 9pm and went out for a meal basically right away before all the restaurants closed. We went to the Harvester in the end :) Afterwards we went home and after catching up on the years we´ve been away we hit the bed at about 1am.
Day2: So we had planned to just hit the shops and have a look around in the area where my Auntie and Uncle live (Harrow), so we didn´t exactly have to get up real early. I think we got up at about 10 and left the house at 11ish. We went to a mall close by and brought quite a few things, i saw this comic shop and went in. There were Final Fantasy figures there but they were so expensive :( And there were some nice ones too....the highwind from FF7 or Clouds Fenrir motorcycle.....but they were like 30Pounds each and i knew i couldn´t just blow my money on that kind of stuff on holiday. So it was of home after hours of shopping. Oh, and we also saw some typical english vandalism. ;)
Day3: Today we headed towards Camden. Now for those of you that don´t know what Camden is, it´s a area in London, but with a difference. Here you will see people of all sorts. Here people dress different. Here people don´t care about what you might think of them. Blue hair, green hair, red hair, you name it you´ll see it here. And the shops are amazing! They have just about everything down there. Countless little shops with everything from clothes (quite wierd, but cool clothes) to shoes (i saw some shoes with like a meter sole) to drug accesories (flavoured smoking papers, weed crushers. I don´t do any of that by the way) to tattoo/piercings. I brought quite a few London souvenirs here for some friends back in Spain, as there was alot of good stuff. Alot of novelty T-shirts too.
Another cool thing about Camden are the outsides of the shops. There are alot of them with big models or cool designs on the walls - some pics below.
Here are a few more cool pics from Camden;
Manequins in clothes shop
Cyber Dog This is a shop called Cyber Dog, but it´s absolutely crazy. It´s like a night club in the shop. They have hard hosue music on full blast, neon lights everywhere, and crazy glow in the dark t-shirts, hats and alot of wierd clothes.
Dragon shop
Shoe shop
A different shoe shop
Jeans Shop
More crazy shops
Painted beach shop
A horse wall
Yet more crazy shops (this one has a plane on it)
Punky Fish - Yes, thats a teabag splattered on there :D
Some crazy hair dude giving out leaflets
Camden lock Bridge
A few more clothes shops
Some wierd little restaurants
Ok, so after a long day at Camden we headed home and got ready to go out to eat. Alot of my family from England came and in the end we were about 25 people. We went to an American Restaurant called TGI Fridays. I must say the food was very scrumpcious :)
Day4: We went to Central London on Thursday. We woke up a bit later than expected (at about 10) and headed for the train station, because driving into central London would take forever, not to mention the congestion charges they have now a days. So we caught the train at Kinsbury, and went to Baker Street to go to madam Tussauds. We got there at about 12 and by about 2:45 we´d finished there. It was very good there i must say. The wax people look like real. This was the first time i´d ever been to a wax museum before, and i was quite suprised at the realism. I took a shit load of photos of all the famous people but i can´t be bothered to upload them all so you´ll have to make do with these 3;
Samuel L. Jackson
Captain Jack Sparrow
Nicholas Cage
Alright, so after Madame Tussauds we headed back to the metro and caught another train to waterloo where the London eye is. It´s only a 5 minute walk from the station but it just happened to start raining just then. What a bastard, it hadn´t rained since we got to England (and it didn´t rain again after this) but just now, when we had to walk around outside it starts raining >:( So, we went on the London Eye which takes about 45 minutes to do one whole turn. It was cool, because you get some really nice views from up there. After the Eye we went to a near by McDonalds and arcade place for about an hour then walked across the bridge to see big Ben from close up. By the time we left McDonalds, it was already dark, so the London eye had put on the lights it has. blue lights go all the way around it and it looks super sexy. So we took more pictures, loved it all, and caught the train back home.
More London pics;
London Eye (again)
London eye at night (Blue lights)
london from high up
lights started coming on while we were at the top
Big Ben from high up
Big Ben from low down
big Ben close up
Panoramic view of London eye at night - I´m really pleased with this pic. I should get it printed out in big and frame it :D
Day5: Friday was a little more relaxed. We went to see my Grandparents that live about 100 miles north in a city called Coventry. We stayed there for a few hours and headed to northampton where i have more family, again stayed a few hours, headed home and chilled out.
Day6: Saturday i walked to some shops close by and brought a few things. I went to HMV and brought a few movies (A clock work orange, Laputa and Nausicaa-last 2 are animes) I went to a corner shop and brought a bag full of sweets and drinks that i can´t get in Spain, namely Hubba Bubba, Nerds, Dime bar, Wine gums, Mars Milkshake, Iron Bru, Dr.Pepper, Banana Milkshake :) Mmmm, goodies!
I headed back home to get ready to go out later that night. We left the house at about 10pm and met up with some of my cousins who were coming too. We had to order 5 taxis and went to club called Stanza which is pretty damn expensive. But for one night it didn´t really matter. Plus it was my cousins birthday and he wanted to come here, because he´s a bit of a big spender. Just look at a page of the price list (1pound = 2dollars more or less). I didn´t drink a great deal, but i was a bit tipsy i guess. I know when to stop, not like my brother who ended up getting sick in the taxi on the way back XD We got home at about 4am
Day7: Last day. We went to Wembley Market. It´s changed alot since i´ve been there. Apart from the new stadium the market´s changed alot too. We browsed the market for a couple of hours and had a lovely chicken Tikka wrap. I brought some copy CDs of the new stuff that isn´t out yet in Spain. And thats pretty much that. Headed home and started packing for the trip back on Monday.
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So there it is, my slightly more detailed post of my holiday. Though i missed out alot of details and little things you should get the basic jist of it all. And you better fuckin like it, because it took me forever to upload all them photos!!!!