when we got there we managed to get lost so had to ask a rather cockney speaking postman where to go, luckily he told us the right way. When we got there it was a lovely hotel and the room was really nice, it even had a microwave!
Our first destination was to head to oxford street, straight away we went to primark, oxford street primark isn't like any old primark its amazing!! after going round and a few purchases later we headed down the rest of oxford street, along the way i found the forever 21 shop which is amazing, there are only like 3 in the uk so i had to go in! its all young and funky, a cross between new look, river island and primark, i could have spent all day in there!
after a few shops later we was in need of a sit down so we headed to john lewis, 5 floors and many escalators later we reached the top floor restaurant which is actually fantastic, the cakes are beautiful, i had a lovely lemon meringue tart.
Later on we headed further down oxford street in search of the m & ms world which i had heard about, it had 4 floors full of all things m and ms!
There was a wall of m and ms in every colour going! i tried to get a small amount but still it cost over 4 pounds but oh well, its not every day you can get love potion mix of m and ms.
Then we headed to Leicester square where it seemed to get really busy, london seems to get more busy in the evenings unlike here, we bought tickets to go see blood brothers for the friday night although we should have really shopped around for a better deal.
After what seemed like hours of walking later we decided to head back home to the hotel, we got home and then went to the pizza hut which was just round the corner.We made the most of the unlimited salad and went back to the hotel ready for the next day.
The next day we decided to go to buckingham palace, one thing i don't enjoy about london is the tube, one line in particular goes down very deep and when your on the tube it feels like your on a rocket its horrible but oh well it has to be done!
When we got to buckingham palace there was crowds of people and we didn't know what was going on, people seemed to be waiting for someone but i didn't know who, after ages of waiting later there was the changing of the guards in which the guards change over from the ones in grey to the ones in red, also a while later some people came in to the building in carriages, i think they was korean, it is funny how the british have such a tradition, it was really fascinating, during this time they kept shutting off the roads which meant at some points we couldn't get out, i felt like a caged animal!
later on when we was allowed out we walked over to st james park which was lovely, there was alot of wildlife, including pellicans, some woman was trying to feed them a biscuit, how stupid!
we wished we had taken a packup to have in the park, when we got out the park we ended up back in the main centre again even though we was going to the embankment, so we decided to have a costa and then go to covent garden, on the way we saw lots of statue people in the street, one was layed down swigging a bottle except he was covering in bronze stuff, he looked amazing, you wouldn't know he was real , we also saw a man who looked like he was running and someone had pressed pause, i don't know how he could stand there all that time!
We walked over to covent garden market and it was great, i love all market type things, in the market area there was a lot of entertainers including a magician and a man on a rope, there were a lot of unique shops including a moomin shop! i loved it.
when we headed back home we got off at the wrong stop and ended up a few stops away, we ended up walking past loads of private estates in nottingill, i wonder who lived there! when we finally found the right way we headed back to the hotel before heading back out to the theatre,
when we got to the theatre it was a really small place and really old, our seats werent too bad but there was too many peoples heads in the way!
the actual show was really good, the lead roles had amazing voices and marti pellow from wet wet wet was also featuring in it, afterwards it was getting later and the streets were packed, i noticed that there was loads of casinos and seedy bars in london!
we headed back to the hotel and stopped for chips on the way, no fine dining on this trip!
The next day was our final morning so we went to a small shopping centre in bayswater which was empty, Ive noticed that london on a saturdayportobello road but once again got lost but after asking someone we found our way there, when we got there it was a huge street full of all different colour houses and hundreds of stalls most selling so called vintage items, there was also stalls of food and we bought 2 huge cakes that were literally 4 times the size of normal cakes!
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