London

Title says it all...took me quite a while (sorry Laetitia!), but I've finally found some time to write a blog entry about my trip to the amazing city called London.

I'm not in the mood for any creative writing, so I'm gonna stick to lists:

What I've seen: (in no particular order. or well, no order that anyone but me can understand.)

• The Big Ben (duuuuh...:p very nice, very big, very...hard to get a decent picture of)
  
• Tower Bridge
  
• Trafalgar Square (also hard to get a decent pic, but very cool)
• Leicester Square (my favourite place in London! Not exactly sure why, but I love it)
• Houses Of Parliament (see Big Ben, would really like to go in there one day. the houses of parliament that is)
• Buckingham Palace (Nice, the big statue in front of it is very nice as well! Didn't see the changing of the guard here, we went to Whitehall instead)
  
• Harrods (impressive, but nothing too special. That's probably cause I didn't go in.)
• Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (was on my wishlist, only saw it from outside, but was cool nonetheless)
• Tower of London (A classic of course. Very cool, bigger than I thought)
• King's Cross (I gotta admit this was one of the highlights for me. Hey don't blame me, I'm a Potterfan! Took quite a while to get there, since i was going to take mom there, but got us to the wrong station XD. Seeing Platform 9 and 3/4 was all worth it though! I also saw this place where they have been filming scenes for the Order and the Phoenix movie)
• Downing Street (Too bad about the fence...I would have really loved to get a closer look)
• Whitehall, the Horse Guards... (was really cool to see, horse guards are funny, well some of them, but the changing of the guard there wasn't what it used to be, according to my mom)
  
• St. Paul's (The part of it that was visible, was nice. They were working on it though...and it was raining while we went there...and i was tired...so basically don't remember too much of it :p)
  
• Chelsea Football Stadion (well we basically went there to buy stuff for my bro, but was cool nonetheless)
• Oxford Street (The Disney Shop!!! =) Very cool other stores as well, and a lot of Pizza Hut and McDonald's restaurants (all at the same side of the street! lol...joke between me and my mom))
• Hyde Park (niiiiiiice! We did this on Sunday afternoon, so I was pretty much exhausted, but it was still cool! Kept looking for the Diana memorial...which was quite a disappointment (i'm talking about the "fountain", not the memorial at Kensington Palace, i (read: my feet) didn't make it there))
  

Of course i've also seen stuff like Westminster Abbey, the Tate Modern,... Oh and I walked on Millenium Bridge... but the list above was what I really wanted to see.
Oh, something that was not on my list but really nice: Piccadilly Circus! It's like a mini Times Square (New York)...It's brilliant! The road between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square on a Saturday night was one of my fave moments.

Impressions:

• The Tube is brilliant...gets you everywhere you wanna go sooo fast...I wish we had an underground service like this!
  
• The people: very nice, friendly and polite!
  
• General atmosphere was really good, I can well imagine myself living there one day :)
  
• Can't imagine you could ever get bored when you live in London :p
  
• Travelling with Eurostar: very comfortable and fast
  
• Security: very very tight in the UK! No luggage lockers or bins in Waterloo station, and my bag got searched when we left. In Belgium, however, no security whatsoever, you can just walk in really.
• Cars driving on the left: weird feeling in the beginning, but you get used to it soon :p the "look to the right!" signs on crossroads are very useful!
  
• Food: very international.
  
• Supermarkets: lots of "put it in the microwave and eat it"-food.
• Magazines/newspapers: looooooots of them!
  
• Expensive.
  

Oh, and Kettle ships are the best...we need those in Belgium!

Conclusion: I wanna go there again!


I don't seem to be able to upload pics right now, so i'll keep those for a later entry.