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Day 22 – London baby! Yeah, yeah

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Mel

Woohoo what a great day.

We met for breakfast at 8:30am at the coffee shop under the hotel as it is cheap and easy. After a toasted sandwich we caught the tube from here to Baker Street and walked up to Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. We got there as it opened and the line was massive already…note to self: go early for the london dungeon tomorrow.

The wax museum was awesome. I took heaps of dorky photos like me with wolverine (mmmm Hugh Jackman) and me with Captain Picard…I mean Patrick Stewart….

Oh and of course one with Shrek 🙂 all my girlfriends will like that one!

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After the wax museum we headed our separate ways for the day as Emma really wanted to shop and I really didn’t. She hopped off the tube at Oxford Street and I headed off to the science museum. It was AWESOME!! The natural history museum was pretty cool as well, especially the dinosaur section which had a life size moving T-Rex.

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After T-Rex love, I did a little bit of shopping at Zara’s (yay, pretty birthday dress) and bought some souvenirs. I walked all the way from the museums down to Buckingham Palace and took some photos. It started to rain at that point but the walk through St James’s Park was still beautiful and I saw lots of squirrels. THEN ONE CAME AND SAT ON MY FOOT! I squealed like a little kid, Japanese tourists took heaps of photos of me. I didn’t get one of him on my foot but I did get one of him sitting next to me eating a nut. I love squirrels.
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I walked through the park and down towards the house of parliament and Big Ben. I also walked through Westminster Abbey which was beautiful.

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After Westminster Abbey I walked across the Westminster Bridge and back to the hotel. All in all, I walked about 12kms today and I am exhausted! Tomorrow we are planning to go to the London Dungeon, Tower of London and the London Bridge so HOORAY more walking. The day after that we leave to come home *sad face*

Percy did come out with me today but because it was raining a lot and I was on my own, it’s hard to take pics! He will have to live vicariously through me 🙂

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Day 20 – London to potters bar

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Mel

After a delicious lie in (9am out of bed) we had breakfast across the road from the terrifying royal national hotel and then checked out at 11am. We walked to Russell Square tube station and caught it to Finsbury Park where we had to change to a national train line…which had no signs and lots of stairs!

We were lucky, the first train we got on happened to be right. Plus a very weird but helpful drunk soccer fan helped us out. Ahh the English.

In total it took us an hour and a bit and £10 each to get there which wasn’t bad considering our noob status on the tube. Our lovely aunt came to pick us up and we had lunch with her (Jane), Nick, Sarah and Rebecca. We then attempted to go and play golf as an afternoon activity but the wait was 2hrs long so we ended up at a massive shopping centre instead. Emma and twin #1 Sarah went off to shop and myself and twin #2 Rebecca went to play in the apple store and be dorks.

Rebecca was horrified to find out I was 26. That’s so old! I suppose it is to a 17 yr old.

After shopping we went out to a local Indian place for dinner (minus the girls who have social lives) and then to the pub. There was a huge bar fight at the pub and my uncle watched on gleefully, he used to be a detective so thought it was amazing to watch the lead up, punching and then after effects of it all! As we were leaving he realised the cops had left the cop car running with the keys in the ignition and suggested stealing it to teach him a lesson…

We all walked home (too much beer and cider) and ate drunken toasted cheese sandwiches. Then bed.

I quite like my English family, they promised to take us to play gold next time we are here hahahaha. Back into London today to explore for a few days 🙂

Head cold and asthma seem to be improving, I think being away from all the cigarette smoke indoors throughout Europe is definitely helping.

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