After waking up with a bit of a sore head this morning we said our goodbyes to family (they were yelled up the stairs to the twins as 17yr old girls don’t get up for anything at 10am on a sunday) and headed back to London.
The highlight of the morning was our uncle throwing some nuts out onto the lawn so the squirrels would come out for us! They thought it was hilarious how much we squealed and giggled. I don’t care, I still think squirrels are cute.
Our aunt was kind enough to drive us into the tube station at cockfosters rather than drop us at the local station as it is a Sunday so national line service are limited. We had to do a line change to get out to Lambeth North and then discovered to our joy the tube station is LITERALLY ten meters from the hotel. Awesome! We dropped off out bags and hopped back on the tube out to Camden Markets.
I really enjoyed the markets and bought some shirts, a bag and some tourist crap. Emma got similar things and I also very nearly bought some amazing leggings (similar to Black Milk) but the woman was such a cow to me I couldn’t bring myself to buy them from her. Yeesh.
We hopped on the tube again and headed to the embankment then walked across the Hungerford Bridge. My dad had said there would be lots of performers and card trick people along there but we didn’t see any 😦 there were some cool shows on the south bank though including one guy who did some crazy limbo moves!
We lined up for 40mins and went on the London eye. The other tourists in our capsule were a bit rude and didn’t move for other people so that was a bit of a downer but by eventually being rude back, we got some magnificent photos. One of mine in particular was taken as the sun came out and everything looks golden. I’m slightly in love with it to be honest.
We wandered back up to our hotel (the Tune Hotel in Westminster) and finally checked in. For £40 a night it is great but gee am I glad we went for separate rooms as they are tiny. I will enjoy my double bed tonight, that’s for sure.
The view from my room has a billboard in it but is still pretty cool, I like the building opposite (see the last photo).
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