The breakfast at this hotel is not to recommend, it was really boring stuff to eat an half of it cost extra. On top of that the room itself looked like a McDonalds and just as busy. Tomorrow we are going to try out the breakfast place at the other side of the hotel to see if it’s any better, but I doubt it.

The McDonalds breakfast room. The butter was a weird yellow color and it all tasted a little off

After the breakfast we went to Leicester square again and this time we were people watching and interviewing by passers about what they were doing here and what they liked and disliked about the place. I interviewed among others a police man, who was really nice and he could tell a lot about the place.  So today I’ve spoken English quite a lot.

For lunch we went to China town and found a nice little restaurant that served a delicious Chinese buffet.

The restaurant and what I ate.

At the afternoon we were free to do whatever we wanted and me and some friends went to Oxford Street to do some shopping. Luckily I bought new shoes because after walking down Oxford Street and around in the stores my feet were pretty sore from my old shoes.

We ate dinner at a restaurant called Fire and Stone, located by Covent Garden. Then the Leicester Square group went back to Leicester Square to see what the place was like at night time. And it was a lot more crowded and all the lightning where on. Though I thought the place was a little too busy to e comfortable to walk around in.

Day and night at Leicester Square

Today we’ve done so much that it feels like I won’t remember all of it but I’ll try to do a summary anyway. We started out really early this morning and flew to London. At the airport we had a tour bus waiting for us and it took us on a very interesting and fun sightseeing tour all across London. We saw all the main tourist attractions like Big Ben, London eye, St: Paul’s cathedral and Buckingham palace, and also some parts of London I’ve didn’t even know existed. I particularly liked the pretty pink/purple trash bins they had in East End. They lightened up the otherwise mainly gray area.

After the tour we came to our hotel and checked in. Our room are okay but they could have decorated it much better and the fluorescent bed lightning is just awful.

When we were rid of the bags and stuff we took the tube to our given places, in my case Leicester Square, to have a first real look at the place. The tube wagons here in London are really small compared to those in Sweden and it feels like the doors will chop your head off if you stand too close to them while closing. However at Leicester Square we gathered a lot of information about the place and I’ve come to like the place, mostly because all the colorful advertisement- and show posters. In the middle of the square there was supposed to be a park but it was now a closed off construction place so it was difficult to get a good overlook of the place and how the different streets are connected to each other, but I think that was just as good because I would probably concentrated too much on that park instead of the surrounding area.

We had some free time after that and we walked up to Covent Garden and looked on the market there and in some surrounding shops before retreating to the hotel for dinner. We had to take the tube one station and then walk for a while before reaching the restaurant, which wasn’t located in the hotel area as we’ve thought. At the restaurant we found out that one of the waiters were from Sweden so we really didn’t had to use much English there.

Then we went back to the hotel and had a little while to relax before going to bed.

A mix of day one

Our room

The very spectacular view from our window

Me and my class are going to London during week 12 for a project in design class. The project is about making a change to a place in London so that the life of the people there become easier, happier and more fun to live. Therefore the class has been divided into three groups each given a location; Docklands, Leicester Square or Bethnal Green. I'm in the Leicester Square group and on this blog I'll post what me and my group are doing during these four days.

I've made this blog for the English class and therefore this blog will be all in English. So while you're waiting for the next update you can take a look at the pictures above. They're from my previous visit to London, about a year ago.