A short trip to London

Yesterday I came back from London I wanted to write a blog post about the time spent there. This was the first time I visited the UK and that is why I was pretty excited. After graduating from high school I wanted to study there but in the last minute plans changed and I came to Germany instead. Maybe it was all for the better, who knows...

Anyways, I loved London from the first sight! Although it takes forever to get somewhere because of the long distances, the city offers so much incredible places to see. Unfortunately Big Ben was under reconstruction and I could not see it, but there ware plenty of other places I enjoyed. 

The London Eye

Kings Cross Station

In London every place and every building is really big, there are people everywhere and it could get difficult to get through all of them. The transport is convenient but sometimes reacquires additional long walking to get to the place you want to reach. One of the things I was very happy to find was the platform 9 3/4 and the Harry Potter fan shop just on its left. I ended up buying a ticket for Hogwarts Express (if only I could actually travel with it!) and a key chain with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows.

Platform 9 3/4 for Hogwarts Express

Another place we visited was the Tower of London, which is a historical royal palace turned into a museum. There people can learn about how prisoners were kept before eventually executed or view the royal crowns of nearly every English King of Queen since Edward V. 

A royal bedroom

5 minutes away from the Tower of London is Tower Bridge, often called incorrectly London Bridge (London Bridge is the next one on the right and has no towers)

  

Me in front of Tower Bridge

Pubs are very common in London and I guess in the whole UK. I did not order the so famous dish Fish and Chips because I think it is way too unhealthy to combine two deep fried things in one meal. So I tried a salad with salmon and some cider. 

Tasty meal in a pub

I also visited the Natural History Museum that turned out to be the best museum I have seen. There was a real size dinosaur, which was moving and roaring! Visitors could also experience how an earthquake feels like, there was a platform and a decors of a supermarket, you get on it and everything start to shake. I hope I never experience it in real life but when I know it is only a simulation it was nice. 

My friend, at whose place I stayed, and I also took a stroll around the Buckingham Palace, Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus (looks like a small Times Square). I was also impressed by the M&M World, basically a very big M&M store, which has the worlds biggest candy wall! 

So all in all, London offers a great variety of entertainment and places to visit, as well as good fitness shape because you have to walk a lot, no kidding.  I got the feeling that living there would be great but stressful, everyone seems to always be in a rush to get somewhere. I wish I had time to visit all the other awesome places I could not this time, but this is a good reason to go back and visit London again in the future. Thanks to my friends, two old classmates of mine, I had a  great time there and really enjoyed myself. When you have the opportunity to visit this city, do not hesitate and do it. And definitely try one of the cutest cupcakes I have ever seen - Lola's Cupcakes !