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weekend trip to London

Hi everyone!

I thought it would be nice to keep you all updated. While this weekend is more relaxed last weekend was busy and very exciting for me and two of my German friends, who came over to England to spend a weekend with me.

We met on Friday in the evening and my train arrived in London at 1 o'clock. Therefore, I had time to check in into our hostel and to fresh up. Afterwards, I went to the Museum of London, which is an interactive Musuem which is close to St. Paul's Cathedral. The musuem is relatively new and it was really good. When I arrived they asked me if I would like to join a guided tour through the musuem which was called "Roman London". I thought "Why not?" and joined the tour. It was really interesting and the female tour guide told London's history in a very entertaining manner.
I went outside afterwards and because I had a little more time I went into Topshop and lucky as I am I found a nice skirt and a pretty top. I just love Topshop all the people are so trendy and the clothes are just pretty.

Later, I met J and L (two very good friends from Germany) and we were all hungry so we went to a nice restaurant which I had tried with my other friend. It is vegan and because one of my friends (J) is also vegan we decided to go there.
We ate different curries and enjoyed the nice atmosphere in the restaurant "Deliciously Ella". She is a famous English cook and I here is a link to her youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJCAQHe4QIauovILB5oekA
The vegan restaurant "Deliciously Ella" close to Bond Street

We strolled through the city streets and saw the nice christmas decorations. It was really pretty seeing Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus and all other streets so brightly illuminated.
Here is one little insight of what we saw

We went to our hostel (Generator Hostel, a cheap and clean youth hostel with a great location!) and we just stayed in the hostel bar for some drinks and talked and talked and talked. It was relaxing with the two girls and good to catch up. We went to our room and slept because we had big plans for the next day. 
It was L's first time in London so J and me showed her around. We downloaded maps and just walked through the city. We wanted to present her Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, The London Eye, various bridges, St. James Park and many more sights. So, we did a long walk through London. 


J wanted to buy something from the Hard Rock café so we went into the famous Hard Rock café which is located next to Green Park. After our long tour we wanted to eat something nice so I recommended Wagamama. It is a food chain which serves Asian cuisine and I went to one restaurant in Manchester so I really wanted to go again. The food is ever so fresh and very tasty.
 Wagamama
After this we had to get back to the hostel because we wanted to arrive on time in the Wembley arena! We had booked tickets for a concert of our favourite bands! THE KOOKS!
So we bought something to drink for our way and went to the arena. The took a train to Wembley park and then the arena was only 5 minutes away. The opening act was "DMA's" and the whole concert was just amazing. The Kooks played among all famous songs (like "Be Who You Are", "Ooh La", "She Moves In Her Own Way", "Naive", "Shine On", Always Where I Need To Be" my favourite song "Sweet Emotion". At the moment I am listening to the album again and again because I am still infected by the euphoria of being at a great concert :D

In the evening we went to our area (the area around King's Cross where platform 9 3/4 is located) and we went out for drinks. We stayed up until 3 o'clock and J and L had to leave because their flight left really early.
I could sleep and I also had the sundays to spend in London because my train just left at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I had a big English breakfast in the hostel, went to the "Natural History Museum" and enjoyed the very relaxig day.

On this day I also bought my present for Secret Santa with my cousins (yes all the shops are open here on Sundays!) and then I just strolled around London.
I love the atmosphere and London is still my favourite city:)


That was my weekend with impressions. I really enjoyed the time with my two crazy friends and this weekend will be very relaxing. I will visit the "Lincoln Christmas Market" tomorrow and on Sunday we will go to church and relax :) 
The weekend after this weekend I will travel to Manchester (again) and to Liverpool (for the first time) with the French assistant. This journey will be busy again because my French friend loves visitig places and she always wants to get up very early to visit as many places as possible. So let's see how this will be!:D I am looking forward to visiting Liverpool with the docks and also the Beatles Musuem!

Lots of love, A XXX

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