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London 2007 - Trip
Vojtěch Šolta
student fr
om grade
seven
I wanted to visit my girlfriend Bára in England. So
I started
looking for some friends who would like to go
with me and see the sights of
London for one week. Michael, Aneta and
Roman told me they wanted to go but
they would have to ask their parents. In the
end the only one who was going
with me was Roman, my schoolmate.
ArrangementsSo we went to the Student Agency office to buy our bus tickets
and eventually our accommodation as well. The accommodation was the biggest problem
because our credit card didn't work on internet. So we asked Bára
to book our accommodation in a hostel.
TravelSo we soon left by train for Prague where we spent
the afternoon and then we set off on our journey.
The travel was O.K and it took about eighteen hours. We got off at London
Victoria Station where Bárawas waiting for us.
We bought one-week underground tickets for 22 pounds
and Bára led us to Belsize hostel in Belsize park.
AccommodationIt was a three-floor building with a
basement. After our having asked a receptionist for the keys of our
booked room she answered we were missing on
her list of guests. She offered us two vacant places but they were much more
expensive than they had been supposed to be. She said we should have
bought the accommodation on internet and we would have saved a lot of money. She
mentioned about 40 pounds (approximately 1600 CZK).
So we had to buy more expensive accommodation and then
we had less money to spend.I lived with three more people. The first
one was Latvian with German citizenship who worked in England.
The others kept changing themselves.
FoodThe food was awful. Breakfast consisted
of toast and jam, beans, sometimes soft boiled eggs, tea and everyday coffee, which we could stand, but most of the main meals were
something like livers and potatoes. We had
a choice between two dishes but the second one was often even worse.
I don't recommend to have a water pipe in a restaurant. It is really very expensive (15 pounds)
and it isn't good.
LondonBára had a fantastic book,
something like "See whole London by
own eyeball". During the week we got familiar with almost all the
well-known London sights: Big Ben, Chelsea,
Greenwich, St. Paul's Cathedral...
The weather was mostly beautiful
and our London sightseeing was amazing.
England is an expensive country
but its sights are worth seeing!