LONDON DIARY

Last week we spend four days in London, visiting the main attractions and spending some time enjoying ourselves in the city. One of the tasks we could choose was to do a video trip diary, explaining what we were doing everyday. This was not the task I chose, but I wanted to explain a little bit what we did there, so I'm going to explain it day by day in this post, with some photos I took to illustrate it. 

DAY 1

The first day started very early, to be accurate, we had to be in front of the high school at 2:20 a.m., so most of us barely slept that night. The bus left at 2:30 from the high school and we headed to the Barcelona airport, which was a journey of about two hours. Once in the airport, we went through all the controls and then we waited for the airplane. The flight was also about two hours long, and when we arrived to the British airport, we took a bus to get to our hostel, which was about one our and a half away. When we got to the Safestay Elephant and Castle hostel, we left our suitcases and we took the tube to go to the centre of London. We got off in Trafalgar Square and we walked a little bit around the city, until we got to Covent Garden. There, we had some free time to eat our lunches and to have a walk around the place. In the afternoon, we were taken on a guided tour around the city. Angus, our guide, showed us several palaces, such as the Buckingham Palace, while he explained different facts about the places we visited. The tour ended in the Big Ben and from there, we went to Picadilly Circus. We had a walk around there and then we went to the restaurant where we had dinner. After that, we went to the hostel and finally arrived to our rooms to rest. 

DAY 2

The second day was maybe one of my favourites. In the morning, we visited the British Museum, and there we did our task of finding some important objects. After that, we took the bus and went to Camden Town. There we had lunch in the food stands and had some hours of free time to have a look to the different shops and stands. I had a really good time in Camden Town, and I really liked getting lost inside all the stands, which where like a labyrinth. There we found the things were quite cheap (depending on what, of course), so we took advantadge to buy some souvenirs. In the afternoon, we took a little boat from Camden with which we were taken on a tour through the canals, which was very relaxing. When the tour finished, we went to Picadilly to get something fast to eat, and then we took the tube to meet with Álvaro, our Spanish guide who took us on a Jack the Ripper night tour. The tour was interesting, and we were able to see a different part of London that is not the typical one. After the tour, we went back to the hostel. 

DAY 3

The third thay started in the National Gallery. We spend part of the morning there, seeing the paintings, and in my case, I did there my task which costsisted of explaining a painting in there. Paula Caball and me chose the Arnolfini Portrait, and we explained there (even though we were interrumpted by the guard). When we got out the musem, we had our free time. My friends and I decided to go to Oxford Street, so we caught the bus to get there. We looked for a restaurant there to have lunch and after that we went shopping. When we were tired, we took the tube to get to the Natural History Museum, which was the meeting point. We got there earlier so we sat on the grass and relaxed a little bit. We made a quick visit to the museum and then we went to visit Harrods. We didn't spend a lot of time there, and then we went to a British pub to have dinner. Once we had had dinner, we went to Picadilly to see the lights and the atmposphere there, and then we went to the hostel. 

DAY 4

This was our last day in London. In the morning, we had a walk around London and we saw the Saint Paul's Cathedral, and visited and some of us went up The Monument, where we could see amazing views. We also crossed the Tower Bridge and we had lunch in the Borough Market. After it, we visited the Shakespeare Globe Theather. When we finished the visit, we went up the Tate building, were the views were also amazing. Then, we took the tube to go back to the hostel, we grabbed our suitcases and we went to the airport with the bus. We had dinner in the airport after we had went thorugh the controls, and then we took the plane. We arrived to Barcelona's airport and then we went back to Castelló, where we arrived at about 4:00 a.m. 

And that was the end of our trip to London. I enjoyed it a lot, I really liked the city, we visited interesting places and I had a great time with all the classmates.