Last week Dave and I set out for our Greece trip, via London. We had plans to visit our friend Sonya while we had 24 hours in London between flights...
July 4/5
Dave and his parents picked me up at work to take us to the airport. After they dropped us off we checked our stuff in and went to kill time before boarding. Ate some food and then waited at the gate.
The flight was on time, which was nice. Boarded around 4:30pm. The flight itself wasn't very eventful, though I attempted to sleep but it didn't happen. We arrived in London early, at about 4:30am. (or 11:30 home time) and then proceeded to gather our luggage, go through customs and all that fun stuff. We were getting weary but we still had to make it to Sonya's house. We figured out the train situation and finally got moving just after 6am.
By the time we got to Sonya's house it was almost 9am. (4am home time!). Sonya was ready for us! She had organized a grand tour of the city, first by car and after by foot. Dave and I had showers and then we piled into Julian's car. It was Dave's first time on the other side of the road, and with the craziness that is driving in London I can't say for sure how he found the experience!!
After driving around til about 11am, we came back to the house and then headed out the door again, this time on foot. We took the subway downtown, and got some food to eat at this cute little pub, who's name I have since forgotten.
Full of beer and pies, we started our walking tour of the city. Sonya had gone to immense efforts and planned our trip complete with information about all kinds of things. We saw all the usual London things: Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tate Modern, Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the London Eye, Oxford St, the British Museum, amoungst so many other things. If the pedometer on my phone is at all accurate, we walked about 20km. I'm sure it's closer to 15, but on no sleep, thats pretty commendable!!
After our touring about, we went for a proper Indian dinner, where Julian bargained with the guy to get a better deal on dinner. That whole thing was so odd! I've never experienced such a thing before.
We finally made it back to Sonya's around 9pm (4pm home time!), got ready to leave again at about 3:30. We found the energy to blow up our air mattress and were asleep in moments.
We got up around 3:30, got back into the car, and Julian drove us to the train station where we could take the train to Gatwick and get on the plane to go to Athens.
Pictures of London :: http://picasaweb.google.ca/alanna.foell/24HoursInLondon
Dave and his parents picked me up at work to take us to the airport. After they dropped us off we checked our stuff in and went to kill time before boarding. Ate some food and then waited at the gate.
The flight was on time, which was nice. Boarded around 4:30pm. The flight itself wasn't very eventful, though I attempted to sleep but it didn't happen. We arrived in London early, at about 4:30am. (or 11:30 home time) and then proceeded to gather our luggage, go through customs and all that fun stuff. We were getting weary but we still had to make it to Sonya's house. We figured out the train situation and finally got moving just after 6am.
By the time we got to Sonya's house it was almost 9am. (4am home time!). Sonya was ready for us! She had organized a grand tour of the city, first by car and after by foot. Dave and I had showers and then we piled into Julian's car. It was Dave's first time on the other side of the road, and with the craziness that is driving in London I can't say for sure how he found the experience!!
After driving around til about 11am, we came back to the house and then headed out the door again, this time on foot. We took the subway downtown, and got some food to eat at this cute little pub, who's name I have since forgotten.
Full of beer and pies, we started our walking tour of the city. Sonya had gone to immense efforts and planned our trip complete with information about all kinds of things. We saw all the usual London things: Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tate Modern, Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the London Eye, Oxford St, the British Museum, amoungst so many other things. If the pedometer on my phone is at all accurate, we walked about 20km. I'm sure it's closer to 15, but on no sleep, thats pretty commendable!!
After our touring about, we went for a proper Indian dinner, where Julian bargained with the guy to get a better deal on dinner. That whole thing was so odd! I've never experienced such a thing before.
We finally made it back to Sonya's around 9pm (4pm home time!), got ready to leave again at about 3:30. We found the energy to blow up our air mattress and were asleep in moments.
We got up around 3:30, got back into the car, and Julian drove us to the train station where we could take the train to Gatwick and get on the plane to go to Athens.
Pictures of London :: http://picasaweb.google.ca
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