Wednesday 10 August 2011

Guests #2 + #3

I've decided not to incluce too much text in my next posts. Firstly, because I don't want to bore you and secondly...it would take too long (and although I'm not getting sleepy yet, I still don't want to go to bed at 5am, heh). But well, I might change my mind as I continue writing ;).

The first day:
In the morning Ranja, Nina and I decided to go and see the changing of the guard at the Buckingham Palace. We ended up not really seeing it, we just caught some of "the people on horses". Whoever wants to see it - click. Then we went to the nearby park, St. James Park :). It was almost like being in the ZOO with all those different animals...



Then we walked around the centre for a bit - went to Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, had fish and chips, and in the evening went to see Lion King - the musical :)). Wow, as always with the musicals in London I was really impressed!! We all were, actually. They were just amazing! You can see a glimpse of it here.




Second day:
This day also Gregor (my brother) and Jure were there. Luckily they could all fit into our house :). It was like the perfect timing, because none of my housemates were there - Andrea went home for 2 weeks and Tom left for good, moved into another flat (just after 1 month). Don't even remember if I told you that Zubair (the messy, loud housemate) left. Well, Tom was OK, but didn't really see him that much.

We went to Greenwich by boat. The guy that was telling us a bit about the famous buildings around the river Thames was so funny!! :) It was amusing to listen to him :).


In Greenwich we went to the National Maritime Museum, and of course walked to the observatory.


We returned to the city centre by train.

Then we went to climb the 311 steps of the Monument. It's 62m high, making it the tallest free-standing Doric coloumn in the world. The view from it is really nice. + for students it only costs 2 GBP!


Some of us (the girls) then went to Tate Modern and saw the Sunflower Seeds exhibition. It was quite unbelievable..to think that all of this seeds were hand painted!!! All of them!! And they look so real...

The day was still not over. In the evening we went to see Ballet Boyz. They were just...surreal! During their performance you could just think "WOW", "ooohhhh", "how can they do this??"... Really great! Video And a lot of songs were from this artist.


3rd, last day:
We decided to go to Wimbledon :). Unfortunatelly they didn't let us walk on the grass... But still, we were there. I imagined it being bigger! It looks almost like a normal tennis court ;).


 Wimbledon Museum

Wimbledon Park

Last day
They went home, so I felt all alone :(. I was walking around with 4 people for the last few days and then all of the sudden, none. Quite a shock!
I decided to go to Museum of London to see a photographic exhibition on London people... And then to what I thought (till a few days ago) it was Spitalfields market. Only yesterday I discovered that it was really Smithfield meat market!! Hehhehe... It was closed anyway. But seemed interesting :). And just found out that it has a bloody history - they used to execute people there! Scarry...


[1oz = 1 ounce = 28.3 grams]

Will continue tomorrow or the day after... :)

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