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