Okay, so day one marked the arrival at London airport for me at about 7:35 am or something, which meant I flew out of Amsterdam 7 am (ams time), flight was one hour and London is one hour behind.
What I managed to forget was the fact that bus service in Amsterdam is not regular at 5 am (oops haha) (I was suppose to leave for the airport at 430), thus after almost shattin' my pants finding out the bus didn't come for another 45 minutes, I decided to run through the streets of Amsterdam at five am with two suitcases (thank goodness for burton quality luggage! those skate wheels came in handy on those cobble stone streets). then somehow when I got to Centraal station, I made the train to the airport by 2 minutes (or else would've been a 30 min delay) and was nice and on time for checking in.
Once in Heathrow, the arrivals hall was FULL of luggage, well its a no brainer why BA lost my first day to Amsterdam.
Met up with cuzn' Rita and Rita's crazy lawyer friend Tina from TO two hours later and then ran through the terminals! Also ran into Maggie Chick, old fobby school friend! What are the chances?!!?
When I saw it, I had to have it, SB, soy chai latte (darn you Lindsay!) and it costed 4 pounds!!! - that's a 10CAD chai. Never again.
One of the first things I forgot, but definitely new is the switch in driving sides of the road, I found it comical but necessary of have the "Look Left" messages at each crosswalk.
We found our way to the dorms we were staying at (London School of Economics (LSE)) and then met up with Rita and Tina's friend Fang (pronounced Fong)).
Our little personal tour guide took us to see every mentionable tourist cliche of London which was pretty cool to see but very exhausting (London's Chinatown is HUGE (well compared to A'dam that is) we then settled in a local pub, had some local English dishes (Yorkshire pudding) and then went home to crash after that.
that's day one!
1 comment:
WOW...can I say jelous much...yup me of you...
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