My god, what a trip!!! The flight from Taipei to London was possibly the longest, most painful experience of my life... haha. But so worth it!!! Were here and I love it!!!
On the flight we had a horribly rude french lady and her two obnoxious children in front of us, and when they werent abusing the flight crew they had their seats so far reclined back we probably could have looked down at them on our laps... Made it a Loooonnnnnggggggg 14 hours. The last 6 hours seemed to drag so bad. We all felt sick (maybe from the lady beside us sneezing the whole way. We all had sore throats and runny noses by the time we landed. And numb butts!!! I think for the trip home I need to find me a butt pillow. haha.
Once we landed we realised the flight crew never gave us our landing card, so by the time we filled that out 2 more flights got ahead of us in Border security and it no joke took us an hour and a half to get through. I was worried someone had stolen our bags or something, but we found them beside the carousel waiting patiently :)
Then we were on our own. We found the tube, caught the train and got to our hotel. Even though I was knackered I was still getting excited and pointing out every little thing like the buses, the phone boxes, the awesome taxis and the fact that all these boys have UK ACCENTS!!! Im in heaven.
Our hotel room is compact but were are right in the city. Almost next to train station and plenty of shops and things close by.
We went and got dinner, then after I almost fell asleep in my pasta we decided to call it a night. I argued with Laura because I just wanted to sleep but thankfully shes such a good little sister and made me get into pjs and take off my make up :)
As theres no fridge in the rooms, we bought bottles of water in reception vending machines and mine and lauras were fine, but when dono put 10 pounds in, of course the machine froze!! Woops, the people on reception said the cafe own the machines so when they open this morning hopefully he gets it back.
Its so hard trying to decide if things are cheap or not. Im pretty good so far at converting it in my head. But im also using the currency exchange program on my phone (using wifi, no data roaming!!).
Today were off to explore. I was too excited to sleep so im going to wake the others now :)
Miss you all.
Yeah - with all the concern about airport security they really don't give a damn about who picks up which luggage off the carousel do they - glad yours was waiting patiently. I am reviewing all your blog and putting in some comments (rather belatedly) as I go. I have only been to London once - for a week and I loved the buses, taxis and tube too.
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