Speculations of a Teenage Girl: LONDON!!

As I'm writing this I am waiting for the pictures on my iPod to get to my laptop, so that I can share them with you. The week was so amazing and relaxing!

Monday
The flight didn't leave Arlanda until late afternoon so in the morning I relaxed and made sure I had everything I needed. When we landed at Heathrow we had to wait for my friend's luggage for about half an hour (mine took about 25 minutes to make its appearance) before we could head to the underground and take the tube in to our beloved city. We stayed in a hotel in Earl's Court (where, despite three earlier visits) I hadn't been before. During my first trip to London I lived in a hotel pretty close to there though (Gloucester Road). On our first evening there we mostly relaxed; we had dinner at Pret (one of my absolute favourite places to eat, in heavy competition with Wasabi), and went to Sainsbury's.

Tuesday
Up there on the list of the best days in my life!! After a morning where we ate the hotel's mediocre breakfast, visited Fortnum & Mason (and other things around Picadilly Circus), Trafalgar Square, and looked around a bookshop there, we headed to Euston station. Wanna know why? Because we had to take the train to get to where we wanted (and had booked tickets) to go. Where was that, you might ask. TO HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER STUDIO TOURS, that's where!!! It was sooo AWESOME! (And took the entire afternoon, and sort of the evening too.) You could see Sets and Props, costumes and special effects. So totally awesome! You could also try riding a broomstick (and the Weasley's car) in front of a green screen, and try Butterbeer (which was disgusting!!). This is where like 99% of my pictures are from. We also got to see the model of Hogwarts they've used for sky-shots and stuff. Another cool thing was the digital guide with videos of Cast and Crew, shots of things behind the scenes and the audio-guide with Tom Felton (who was Draco Malfoy, for you less invested in he awesomeness that is Harry Potter). Such a totally awesome day, that I still have trouble processing.

Wednesday
Shopping! Walking up and down Oxford Street, Regent Street and Carnaby Street resulted in aching feet, sweat dripping down one's back (because of the warm weather) and lots of shopping bags. I found a pair of fake converse on Primark (only £6), along with a T-shirt, a pair of tights and nail-polish, and a T-shirt for my brother. At The GAP I got a T-shirt, and was just thrilled! The extremely nice people at Lush got me to buy stuff for my mum, and HMV "stole" my money for the three Hunger Games books (they had the lowest price though, with only £15 for all three). I also got me some tea at Whittard's and enjoyed the trip to David & Goliath even though I didn't buy anything there. Some store for bathing suits made the day, however, by having their attractive male employees stand in the entrance in only bathing shorts - yum! (We didn't dare to go in the store though, they were kind of intimidating with their six-packs and all - not the greatest marketing trick) The day ended in Hyde Park with take-away dinner (sushi) from Wasabi - more yum! All in all, a very successful day.

Thursday
More shopping - at markets! We headed to Camden Markets, Burrough Market and Covent Garden, for clothes, accessories and food. Camden Markets was nice, though somewhat huge, and smelled weird. There I got a cute dress, and some kind of thing to tie my hair up. After that we headed over to London Bridge and Burrough Market where we ate lunch (I had only fries) and I bought my dad some fancy chocolate. For "dessert" we bought juice; I got Acai-juice (ass-eye-ee) with apple, kiwi and banana and what-not. It was brown and tasted funny. At Covent Garden I visited the other David & Goliath to get Erika a sweater that she wanted, and we headed to the Apple-house for my friend to check her e-mails and stuff. The day ended with bus-hopping and another dinner at Wasabi.

Friday
The sad day that we left London. I was quite content with leaving though, even though I didn't really wanted to go home. We relaxed in our room before heading to the airport (where I had to go through some weird machine in security, becuase I beeped in the first one). Lunch at Pret, got Cosmopolitan at WHSmith, and then I had no money left. When we landed in Stockholm again, where we got our luggage pretty quickly, I started reading the first Hunger Games while waiting for Arlanda Express.

Now I'm gonna eat some lunch while waiting for the damn photos to upload..
*leaves laptop to eat*

And here we go: