4. The first day: Thursday
The day dawned bright, with a spectacular sunset and a blue sky without a cloud. It certainly was not what we expected to find in London, but not only was it the first day, but everyone else. And the temperature great, we could go with a short-sleeved shirt and a jacket over not too thick, and of the time still had to wear the jacket in hand.
The hotel served breakfast from 7:30 to 9:00 in the morning, so we put the mobile alarm to get up at quarter to 7, and to shower and dress with confidence to be down about 8. As we have soon, we look to the room of José Luis and Anna, who was like Diego and Elena but had a very rigged Samsung LCD TV. For my taste was the best rooms. And then we went down to see Jose Antonio, who was the individual .... and it was really individual because barely fit one person. What a shoe box!. He had just enough room for the bed, and a small hole in front of it with the TV cabinet. There was a door to the bathroom with toilet and shower but the sink was in the same room, at bedside, and you could play with your feet while you were lying ... In the hotel website put the photo of the nice room, but that had to touch them to others.
As Diego and Elena had just got off wake us for breakfast while they were wearing. Given the choice for breakfast coffee, orange juice or hot chocolate, though
could ask more than one thing. There was also a self service table with a cereal, milk and fruit, although the menu said that only a piece of fruit per person. At the tables were also Sugar, salt, pepper various sauces, including HP Sauce that is seen in all parts of London, a little pot with butter and another pad with jam orange. Also I brought a couple of slices of bread per person, and eggs with bacon, choice of scrambled or fried. Come on, a strong breakfast ...
The eggs were bland but as the bacon was quite tasty as they offset one another.
finished breakfast and waited in the door of the hotel to Diego and Elena breakfast, but as they got down they were already enough people take long to serve with what, as usual, we had to wait quite a while ... ;)
trace our plan and we went to Victoria Station to buy a one day ticket (the subway is quite expensive and better to buy a ticket out of these you can use as many times as you want for a day) for 5.10 pounds each. We took the subway and went to our first destination: The British Museum.
5. British Museum
Leaving Oxford Street underground and went to the museum to give a little walk to soak up some of London's environment. We saw lots of buses 2 story, we took some pictures, browsing the shop windows and I took money from a bank teller named Abbey, but had the same logo that the Banco de Santander. I had to take the credit card, debit card because the did not give me the fucking cashier. At last we arrived at the museum after getting lost a little bit.
The British Museum archaeological stores of different civilizations and eras, and is enoooorme ... To see it all in detail would have to spend all day and still could not stand much in everything. We did not have much time so even started rather slowly in the area of \u200b\u200bEgypt, then we had to accelerate and leave us some rooms with no view, it was approaching lunchtime.
had enough people in the museum, although it was not a holiday, but we did well to go that day because the day after the Passover began there, and the other English hotel told us after they were on Saturday and was petadísimo people.
6. Covent Garden
Before lunch, we had a quick tour of Covent Garden Market, where we saw a guy doing magic tricks and some pampering characterized statues made of metal too.
7. To eat
After leaving the British Museum began to discuss where to eat. At the door of the museum had a hot dog stand that has a good pint, but the brother of Diego had recommended we try a Pizza Hut buffet that was there, so after the brief visit to Covent Garden first got us in a pub and have a few pints of beer and then we went to Pizza Hut to do to repent the day decided to buffet free.
The pub beer was pretty good, ask a Lager type, and select the Kronenbourg. Do not get too cold, but not bad. Moreover, as pointed Diego, the funny thing is that although they are not very cold temperature maintained during the time it takes to drink it, do not overheat. About the price, in this pub I remember that we gained about 3 pounds per pint (about 4.5 euros)
The pub we went to Pizza Hut but was full of people, so look for another (there are pizza huts kicking ) and found that all had a buffet, or at least all we saw. We got to the inside, and you could only choose between pizza buffet for 4.95 pounds, or buffet of pizza, pasta and salad for 5.95. The truth is that one does not control that, because the pizzas, pasta and salad ingredients together and there was no one controlling what I missed you. I guess like so many other things to simply rely on the honesty of the people, something that we are not accustomed English.
However, we were honored and pedirmos buffet of everything, and I know if I would come out that day to make a cash account, because you just needed to see the mountains of pieces of pizza that caught my hungry friends to realize that the business was for us, and not for the pizza.
Anyway, we ate well and thoroughly, and we got the energy to face the rest of the day. We went from tipping as it is assumed that the tip is to service, but when we were serving buffet us, so ....
8. Forbidden Planet
D
fter eating women were devoted to further examine the Covent Garden market and shops around, and men, like good geeks we are, we entered the Forbidden Planet store where had figures of all sorts of characters from comics, tv series, movies .... as well as comics, books, DVD's. costumes and merchandising of all kinds. Awesome store. There was a section with heaps DVD editions TV series, ancient and modern. Even series that I had no idea that had been released on DVD some time, like Blake's 7, or the Tomorrow People.
9. The time and limited cafelito Toilets
After much walking and would take a coffee mood for beer and empty bladders, so we got into the first Starbucks we saw that there are indeed kicking. As first things first, oteamos a bit in search of service and of course what we saw, we asked. To our surprise, no service, so with them we go in search of another cafe where they had meódromo. Here we noticed another difference between UK and Spain. At least not always in London pubs and cafes have services. In Spain you must have it, but apparently there is not, so finding a place to take a meadita not so easy. At the end we got into an arcade where we spotted a sign indicating that they had Toilet, so after circling around (was very big and quite chaotic, with stairs everywhere, neon colors and lots of people ) we found the meódromo and we let nature take its course.
more calmly now we got into another Starbucks and English when they saw that we were put to meet a girl that was so, so we could rest a bit of English and understand each other better. The English girl was nice and friendly, but another Englishman who had had a bad fuck that pa why.
10. Harrod's
After coffee we had a tour of Harrod's, which is like the English Court, but real English ... There a lot to look but nothing to play, but with cars that looked at the door dressed as admirals metiendoles types of shopping bags in the trunk and becomes one with the idea that just will not go in the Mercadona neighborhood. Inside there is a hall decorated like in ancient Egypt, with statues of pharaohs, columns and such, all very posh. Well, we were seeing watches worth about 70,000 pounds (about 115,000 euros), so one can get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow they spend there.
Another thing that caught my attention is the curious distribution of the site, and you're in a room watching jewelry jewelry display cases, go through a door and find yourself in a bloodbath. Interesting contrast.
And not much else to say about Harrod's, apart from the memorial that are dedicated to Diana and Dodi that is uglier than a pain, and a statue of the owner of wax out there because it is so real that it seems that from one moment to another is going to climb down to say hello.
11. Hyde Park
After Harrod's we went to Hyde Park to have a stroll
to between the trees and take a break from the bustle. Very nice park, lots of grass and a lovely lake, but the trees were still mostly leafless. Sure in a few months is better.
In the lake there, lots of ducks and swans, and there we sat for a while, watching the ducks and resting. And Elena amusing to scare the pigeons: D
12. Dinner with show
As dusk began to cross Hyde Park in search of a subway station and went to Oxford Street. There gallivant a bit to find a small alley, which I remember as it's called but it was very close to another called Marlborough Street, and was full of pubs. we got one that was good looking and was quite lively and a waiter told us to go up above that had room.
climbed, another waiter served us, we sit down and ask a few pints, and Anne and I that we were hungry we also ask the famous Fish & Chips, to see how it was.
While waiting to be served, the show began: a girl who was with friends at the table in front suffered a seizure and do not see that mess. They had to call an ambulance, the poor girl on the floor convulsing and throwing up half the friends helping as they could ... Soon the ambulance arrived and climbed the toilets. The girl had calmed down a bit but was still bad, so they put oxygen and taken away.
The waiter apologized later in serving, but of course ... I was doing. They gave us drinks and fish & chips and we talked a while with the waiter, who was French and had friends in Spain, etc, etc ... The fish & chips was not bad, basically a piece of battered fish with chips and a couple of sauces for my taste but I found it quite dull. The good news is that fish had virtually no thorns, found only 2 or 3.
13. Back to hotel
As we were tired we returned to the hotel, but by de Diego, José Antonio and me there was some intention to stay a little longer of beers out there, but ultimately overcame fatigue and we all went to hotel.
Back at the hotel, we caught the front desk and proceeded to search us and told us we had to pay 3 nights and missing, so we paid and went to rub. I paid with a debit card with no problems (visa electron) but back in Spain, to watch the movements I have seen that the bank charged me $ 2-plus fee for foreign purchases.
And nothing more, just beaten down and stay in bed until the next day fried.
The hotel served breakfast from 7:30 to 9:00 in the morning, so we put the mobile alarm to get up at quarter to 7, and to shower and dress with confidence to be down about 8. As we have soon, we look to the room of José Luis and Anna, who was like Diego and Elena but had a very rigged Samsung LCD TV. For my taste was the best rooms. And then we went down to see Jose Antonio, who was the individual .... and it was really individual because barely fit one person. What a shoe box!. He had just enough room for the bed, and a small hole in front of it with the TV cabinet. There was a door to the bathroom with toilet and shower but the sink was in the same room, at bedside, and you could play with your feet while you were lying ... In the hotel website put the photo of the nice room, but that had to touch them to others.
As Diego and Elena had just got off wake us for breakfast while they were wearing. Given the choice for breakfast coffee, orange juice or hot chocolate, though
could ask more than one thing. There was also a self service table with a cereal, milk and fruit, although the menu said that only a piece of fruit per person. At the tables were also Sugar, salt, pepper various sauces, including HP Sauce that is seen in all parts of London, a little pot with butter and another pad with jam orange. Also I brought a couple of slices of bread per person, and eggs with bacon, choice of scrambled or fried. Come on, a strong breakfast ... The eggs were bland but as the bacon was quite tasty as they offset one another.
finished breakfast and waited in the door of the hotel to Diego and Elena breakfast, but as they got down they were already enough people take long to serve with what, as usual, we had to wait quite a while ... ;)
trace our plan and we went to Victoria Station to buy a one day ticket (the subway is quite expensive and better to buy a ticket out of these you can use as many times as you want for a day) for 5.10 pounds each. We took the subway and went to our first destination: The British Museum.
5. British Museum
Leaving Oxford Street underground and went to the museum to give a little walk to soak up some of London's environment. We saw lots of buses 2 story, we took some pictures, browsing the shop windows and I took money from a bank teller named Abbey, but had the same logo that the Banco de Santander. I had to take the credit card, debit card because the did not give me the fucking cashier. At last we arrived at the museum after getting lost a little bit.
The British Museum archaeological stores of different civilizations and eras, and is enoooorme ... To see it all in detail would have to spend all day and still could not stand much in everything. We did not have much time so even started rather slowly in the area of \u200b\u200bEgypt, then we had to accelerate and leave us some rooms with no view, it was approaching lunchtime.
had enough people in the museum, although it was not a holiday, but we did well to go that day because the day after the Passover began there, and the other English hotel told us after they were on Saturday and was petadísimo people.
6. Covent Garden
Before lunch, we had a quick tour of Covent Garden Market, where we saw a guy doing magic tricks and some pampering characterized statues made of metal too.
7. To eat
After leaving the British Museum began to discuss where to eat. At the door of the museum had a hot dog stand that has a good pint, but the brother of Diego had recommended we try a Pizza Hut buffet that was there, so after the brief visit to Covent Garden first got us in a pub and have a few pints of beer and then we went to Pizza Hut to do to repent the day decided to buffet free.
The pub beer was pretty good, ask a Lager type, and select the Kronenbourg. Do not get too cold, but not bad. Moreover, as pointed Diego, the funny thing is that although they are not very cold temperature maintained during the time it takes to drink it, do not overheat. About the price, in this pub I remember that we gained about 3 pounds per pint (about 4.5 euros)
The pub we went to Pizza Hut but was full of people, so look for another (there are pizza huts kicking ) and found that all had a buffet, or at least all we saw. We got to the inside, and you could only choose between pizza buffet for 4.95 pounds, or buffet of pizza, pasta and salad for 5.95. The truth is that one does not control that, because the pizzas, pasta and salad ingredients together and there was no one controlling what I missed you. I guess like so many other things to simply rely on the honesty of the people, something that we are not accustomed English.
However, we were honored and pedirmos buffet of everything, and I know if I would come out that day to make a cash account, because you just needed to see the mountains of pieces of pizza that caught my hungry friends to realize that the business was for us, and not for the pizza.
Anyway, we ate well and thoroughly, and we got the energy to face the rest of the day. We went from tipping as it is assumed that the tip is to service, but when we were serving buffet us, so ....
8. Forbidden Planet
D
fter eating women were devoted to further examine the Covent Garden market and shops around, and men, like good geeks we are, we entered the Forbidden Planet store where had figures of all sorts of characters from comics, tv series, movies .... as well as comics, books, DVD's. costumes and merchandising of all kinds. Awesome store. There was a section with heaps DVD editions TV series, ancient and modern. Even series that I had no idea that had been released on DVD some time, like Blake's 7, or the Tomorrow People. 9. The time and limited cafelito Toilets
After much walking and would take a coffee mood for beer and empty bladders, so we got into the first Starbucks we saw that there are indeed kicking. As first things first, oteamos a bit in search of service and of course what we saw, we asked. To our surprise, no service, so with them we go in search of another cafe where they had meódromo. Here we noticed another difference between UK and Spain. At least not always in London pubs and cafes have services. In Spain you must have it, but apparently there is not, so finding a place to take a meadita not so easy. At the end we got into an arcade where we spotted a sign indicating that they had Toilet, so after circling around (was very big and quite chaotic, with stairs everywhere, neon colors and lots of people ) we found the meódromo and we let nature take its course.
more calmly now we got into another Starbucks and English when they saw that we were put to meet a girl that was so, so we could rest a bit of English and understand each other better. The English girl was nice and friendly, but another Englishman who had had a bad fuck that pa why.
10. Harrod's
After coffee we had a tour of Harrod's, which is like the English Court, but real English ... There a lot to look but nothing to play, but with cars that looked at the door dressed as admirals metiendoles types of shopping bags in the trunk and becomes one with the idea that just will not go in the Mercadona neighborhood. Inside there is a hall decorated like in ancient Egypt, with statues of pharaohs, columns and such, all very posh. Well, we were seeing watches worth about 70,000 pounds (about 115,000 euros), so one can get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow they spend there.
Another thing that caught my attention is the curious distribution of the site, and you're in a room watching jewelry jewelry display cases, go through a door and find yourself in a bloodbath. Interesting contrast.
And not much else to say about Harrod's, apart from the memorial that are dedicated to Diana and Dodi that is uglier than a pain, and a statue of the owner of wax out there because it is so real that it seems that from one moment to another is going to climb down to say hello.
11. Hyde Park
After Harrod's we went to Hyde Park to have a stroll
to between the trees and take a break from the bustle. Very nice park, lots of grass and a lovely lake, but the trees were still mostly leafless. Sure in a few months is better. In the lake there, lots of ducks and swans, and there we sat for a while, watching the ducks and resting. And Elena amusing to scare the pigeons: D
12. Dinner with show
As dusk began to cross Hyde Park in search of a subway station and went to Oxford Street. There gallivant a bit to find a small alley, which I remember as it's called but it was very close to another called Marlborough Street, and was full of pubs. we got one that was good looking and was quite lively and a waiter told us to go up above that had room.
climbed, another waiter served us, we sit down and ask a few pints, and Anne and I that we were hungry we also ask the famous Fish & Chips, to see how it was.
While waiting to be served, the show began: a girl who was with friends at the table in front suffered a seizure and do not see that mess. They had to call an ambulance, the poor girl on the floor convulsing and throwing up half the friends helping as they could ... Soon the ambulance arrived and climbed the toilets. The girl had calmed down a bit but was still bad, so they put oxygen and taken away.
The waiter apologized later in serving, but of course ... I was doing. They gave us drinks and fish & chips and we talked a while with the waiter, who was French and had friends in Spain, etc, etc ... The fish & chips was not bad, basically a piece of battered fish with chips and a couple of sauces for my taste but I found it quite dull. The good news is that fish had virtually no thorns, found only 2 or 3. 13. Back to hotel
As we were tired we returned to the hotel, but by de Diego, José Antonio and me there was some intention to stay a little longer of beers out there, but ultimately overcame fatigue and we all went to hotel.
Back at the hotel, we caught the front desk and proceeded to search us and told us we had to pay 3 nights and missing, so we paid and went to rub. I paid with a debit card with no problems (visa electron) but back in Spain, to watch the movements I have seen that the bank charged me $ 2-plus fee for foreign purchases.
And nothing more, just beaten down and stay in bed until the next day fried.
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