Tuesday, 29 December 2015

The Adventure Begins!

Wow, what a crazy 24 hours! My flight from Abu Dhabi to London was on the A380 which is a much newer and bigger plane. It was still pretty cramped but nice and new and it was so much quieter! We finally arrived in London about 6:30am Monday 28th... After about 5 times circling before actually landing! Going through customs and getting my bag was pretty cruisy, actually getting to the hotel was really easy to. I just jumped on the underground straight through to Russell Square (where I'm staying). It did take awhile though, about an hour. I had a short walk from the station to my hotel and realised that I've been here before! The hotel is nice, all I cared about this morning was a shower! After face timing with my family I jumped in the shower and got myself ready for the day. I didn't exactly know where I wanted to go except for boots! This actually turned into a necessity because my toiletries bag leaked, grr! 


I decided to get on the underground to Piccadilly Circus. I walked around there for a bit, went into the m and m store and got some goodies and then walked a bit further to Leicester Square. 
 
I then decided I would have a walk down to Trafalgar Square meanwhile looking out for a vodaphone to sort out wifi while I'm out. I started walking the way I thought was Trafalgar Square and got to some steps. As I went down I saw loads of men on horses and assumed I was on the road towards Buckingham Palace. Now I'm not interested in the royal family really and I have been to Buckingham palace before so I didn't plan on going, but it was such a nice day and I was following the men on horses! 
I also used my selfie stick (very subtly of course)
I then decided I wanted to head back to the shops so I walked through Green Park and back up towards Piccadilly Circus. 

As I was walking I saw a vodaphone store and went in to sort out my wifi. The man got it all sorted for me and told me to wait a bit for it to activate. I didn't want to go back to Piccadilly Circus so I cut through and walked down to Oxford Circus and then onto Oxford street - going into numerous shops! I stopped in at a Starbucks to try and sort out my wifi but unfortunately I couldn't so on I went in search of a vodaphone store... Again! I walked all the way down Oxford street and finally found one. This man actually fixed it and changed the settings and I'm now connected! It was nearing 3pm and I'd been out since about 10 so I was getting tired but I decided to walk down to Tottenham Court Road because it was easy to get back to the hotel from that station. Now can I just say it was so busy. I couldn't believe the people... How do people shop like that!?
My bags were starting to weigh a lot and it was getting dark so I decided to head back to the hotel. I got myself some food from M&S because I wouldn't be going back out for dinner, but I forgot to get s fork so it's going to be interesting trying to eat my salad, might just have to have the chips and chocolate! 

So now I'm back in my hotel room planning what I'm doing tomorrow. My plan is to go down to Brighton tomorrow. It's a 2hr train journey, but I think it will be worth it! I've sorted out what trains to get and also what train I need to get back to London. Tomorrow night I get to meet up and have an introduction with all the people I'm going on Contiki with! I'm excited about that! 

Anyway it's about 5:30 here and I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to stay awake, so off for a shower them to eat some dinner and get some rest!

-E

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