We gathered at Kings 51 at 8 am and as usual Dario was running late. He made it just in time which turned out to be excellent 'cause he was well-known with the underground system in London. It was a terrible long ride to London, approximately 2h, but... it was the first ride I had in England where I didn't fear my life. Thank you bus-driver! When we arrived we were immediately released, so we walked to the Big Ben and the London Eye. And the first thing I have to say: there are so many people in London. I live nearby Amsterdam so believe me when I say I'm used to crowded places... but London is next-level crowdness. Everywhere you look are humans. So. Many. Humans. I respect the people who have to deal with it every day. I had the urge to push every tourist who was posing like a total fool in front of the Big Ben. One picture is enough, you'll never use 101 pictures of yourself with a big clock. It is a really nice clock though. We went to the nearest underground and took the first ride from Westminster Station to Tower Bridge Station. We walked over the Tower Bridge, which is basically a huge bridge. That sounds really odd, why would you want to visit a bridge? Well it's quite impressing. It's beautiful so immensely big. To seek the Buckingham Palace we took the first ride to the Green Park Station. We were quite hungry so we decided to search an affordable shop (something like MacDonalds/KFC/Subway). We walked for almost half an hour because there was no, literally no, shop to be found. There were only really expensive restaurants, even looking at it made my wallet scream. We were relieved when we finally saw the yellow M (I have never been so happy to see the MacDonalds). No wonder that it was crowded (yeah, again crowded) inside; it was the only place you could get food without being immediately broke. After a long queue (note: they are big on queueing in England... seriously) I could finally enjoy a sandwich. Well enjoying is a different case because it was kind of tasteless but that didn't matter. You enjoy almost every kind of food when you have walked half an hour to find some. After our quick break we went all the way back to the Buckingham Palace. We took some group photos and we had to return to catch our bus. Funny thing there. Before we went on our trip we got a paper which said we had to meet at the London Eye. So we did. We were waiting at the London Eye but no one was there. Some of us got called by one of the leaders, who was mad (obviously). They had decided to meet somewhere else, that's a good idea when you're with many students and you say it when there are busses and cars passing so half of the group can't hear you... We ran 1h late but they luckily waited for us so we could hop on the bus after a long journey. Everybody on the bus hated us (of course) but hey.. we weren't the ones who changed the meeting point. We were back in Bournemouth around 7 pm so Evelien, Megan, Fei, Ida, Bella and I went to a restaurant where I ate some pasta and american pancakes (seriously... they know how to do their pancakes. It was truly heaven). We went home at 10 pm, totally devastated from the trip. One day in London is definitely not enough.
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