6th of June on a Sunday morning we woke up to eat our first breakfast at the hostel. We were planning to go do some serious sightseeing! We headed towards King's Cross tube station and hopped on a tube and started to look for the Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament! I've been wanting to see Big Ben since the third grade when I started reading english and I opened my first english book and the first chapter included a picture of Big Ben. It was absolutely amazing and much higher than I thought it would be! We couldn't get our eyes of it. We walked past it and past it again and again. And since the London Eye is also very near we got to see that too. We didn't wanna pay to get into it but we saw it anyway. :)
Then we made our way towards the famous Westminster Abbey which was closed because it was Sunday but we could go to its courtyard and that really appealed to me. There was like one tourist and us so it was great! There was this saying on the floor" Remember the men and woman of the armed and auxiliary forces who lost their lives in times and places of conflict since the second world war". It was relaxing just to sit there and wonder the world and it almost felt like being away from everything. :) After "coming back to this world" we continued our way and found the first telephone boxes and of course we had to take the compulsory pics! :D Then it was time to see the Royal home, Buckingham palace and the parks near it! There were many tourists..! Then it was time to go check out the Piccadilly Circus which we had seen so many times in movies and pictures etc. I was personally a bit disappointed because there was renovations going on and it wasn't that magical. Right next to it we also saw the Ripley's museum, Believe It or Not which was one of my favourite shows when I was growing up. :) The last sightseeing of the day was Trafalgar Square and the national museum right next to it. :) It was pretty impressive. :) At that point, we were a bit lost and thought that it's easier to get a bus back to the hostel than find a metro station. It took us quite a while to find the right bus. We asked many people and no one new 'cause we were standing right beside this HUGE traffic circle with at least six ways to go.. One boy even game his map to us.. :D We finally hopped on some bus and hoped that it would take us somewhere near to were we lived at and enjoyed the ride of this red douple storey bus. :)
At the hostel we were pretty exhausted after walking all day almost none stop! By eight o'clock we were ready to go to sleep but we thought that hey, it's only a couple of days in London! We went next door from Journey's to buy some alcohol and there was this hang around party at the hostel's kitchen. That was so much fun!! People from all over the world chatting with each other, sharing life and travel stories. Some were making dinner, some were right next room watching some movie, and Wilson played his guitar and by the way he did that well!! The staff was hanging among us and the first days we didn't even know who was staff and who wasn't, and that, was just great! Saija had an adventure of her own and went out with the milan boys to some club while I hang at the hostel! And we both had a good time :)
Oh, before we got back to the hostel from our sightseeing day we decided to go to St Pancras railway station (right next to King's Cross metro station) to buy our Eurostar train tickets to Paris. We had been planning like what time we want to take the train and stuff. When I get to this office I'm like telling this young hot officer guy that we are going to Paris on 9th at 16.00, we've got these interrail passes so we get some discounts and two tickets please.. The guy looks at me and answers, noooo.. You're going to Paris on 9th at 5.20am and you get no discounts and here are your two tickets.. So that didn't go as we had hoped for but the guy was real nice and he only laughed at us.. :D
In the first couple of days we had some slight misunderstandings language wise for example with Wilson. We are asking him something about the tube and were trying to explain to him what we meant.
Us: " You know like area 1 is it..?
He only laughs at us and we try again: "area one, c'moon!??"
Wilson answers to us: "What?! Is there gonna be a war or something..? It's called a zone not an area..
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