✈️ 9 Days in The City of London ❤️ [Final Part]

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• Arsenal

Let it be said that I might probably never be a bigger Arsenal fan than my brother or the son of my host mother, but a big fan I am nonetheless!

And of course I couldn't possibly leave without having taken a picture with my future husband Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain *-*

 

• Gifts and Boughts

The sweetest thing is coming home beat down from a long day's walk to lovely presents laying on your bed and hot chocolate to ease your sleep. *-* 

We actually had the nicest host mother!

• We made even more selfies!

• Charing Cross

The first thing that pops into my mind whenever I hear London would probably be the Charing Cross station, our meeting point. Ask anyone in our group if they remember how to get anywhere in London and you most certainly will be embraced by silence, but ask how to get to Charing Cross and I bet you accurate directions will be thrown at you!

What I loved most about this station -aside from the Burger King right next to where we always met- was how this one big place was filled, with constantly hustling and bustling commuting workers and shoppers who only stopped staring at their smartphones every now and then to stare at massive departure and arrival boards.

 On the other hand, if you took a minute of your time to actually sit down and look around you, you would find a few laid back treads between the hurried steps and determined faces,  like the owners knew exactly what they were doing but didn't have to be anywhere anytime soon.

• Leaving London :(

I planned to write a whole novel about leaving, but at this point I think it best to put a full stop here and promise to dip my feet in again anytime from now, and surely not just to say I've been.

Lest I forget, hats off to my one and only and her undeniable talent *-*

After 5 hours I probably would have only produced a stick figure or worse.

Nur im Krieg und in der Liebe ist alles erlaubt!

✈️ 9 Days in The City of London ❤️ [Part II]

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Brighton wasn't as bright as we'd expected though, it was as windy and stormy as it gets!

We gave up on our umbrellas after about 10 minutes on the streets to avoid them getting broken

 and felt like we were climbing up a wall while walking up the streets against the wind, 

but thank God for loving shelters like Primark and coffee shops *-*  

From there on a lot more happened and of course we saw all you have to have seen in order to say you have been. Lemme zap you through all that came after:

• The Millennium Bridge

My walking over the bridge kind of happened, I didn't even realize the fact that it was something I was supposed to have been proud of doing... until it was done.

• The Imperial War Museum

  

• Harrods

This is one place you DO NOT want to go shopping without the wallet of Kim Kardashian, Rihanna or of a person who just won the lottery jackpot. I was not aware of this until I was knee-deep and left feeling like an empty bank account.  

But somehow selfies make the world a better place, even if you were like an empty bank account just minutes ago.

• Royal Drury Lane Theatre

After having read the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" twice and seeing the movie a quadrillion times, I found it highly fitting that our teachers insisted we saw the musical at least once, who are we to say no?

We even got the chance to taste one of the most famous Wonka Bars, which by the way, had a heavenly taste. No wonder Charlie and his family were all crazy about the chocolate that feels like the clouds and tastes like stars captured in a pretty wrapper.

• Thames River Boat Cruise

• The MUST SEES for a tourist :The Big Ben, London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Red Telephone Booth, Horse Guard Parade Whitehall and Birds

I tried not to look to the ground here:

I SAW A DUCK! *-*

• Made sure Matthias didn't have a good time!

• Nando's

Where I ate the most expensive "burger" in my life...till date!

• Camden Market (The love of my life) and meeting the fam *-*

"Make sure you never let your eyes off your bag, don't take any documents along and don't carry all your money about, take just what you will need", was pretty much the first thing we heard whenever we told anyone that we would be spending an afternoon at the notorious Camden Market, home of the punks and what not. Had a sister feeling like she was going to interview a brutal criminal in jail and not shopping or rather window shopping as we found that everything one shop had, the second one at the other side of the street also had. 

I and no one in my group got robbed.

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The best part of the whole trip, meeting my aunt and my cousins at Camden! *-*

Missing them awfully already :(