London, this is where I am meant to be.

For as long as I can remember, I've wanted and dreamed about going to England.If you look at my old social media pages they all say something about getting lost in London, and finally, I am here. It doesn't even matter that I didn't sleep on the thirty hour flight it took to get here. I was wide awake and ready to explore.I was a little bit nervous because it was my first time travelling alone, but I checked into the Generator Backpackers. The first day I spent wondering around the area I was staying in. It took me over an hour to walk into the restaurant to get food because I have this weird fear of eating alone. But I finally did it and was so proud of myself.  The first night I met these two girls from Switzerland and one from Canada and they were all super nice, the Canadian girl was on her second last night so she offered to take me around to all the sights the next day cause she hadn't seen them all either.We had a massive day. It started at like 9am. First we walked to the British Museum, where we spent two hours looking around, mostly at the Greek and Roman things. I reckon it would take a week to see every exhibit in this place. We then continued into Soho, where we got lunch before we did Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Eye of London and finished in Hyde Park. It was 5pm by the time we left the park so we just trained it back, to exhausted to walk back.The next day I did a tour out to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath. I wish I'd spent more time in Bath, it was this cute old fairy-tale like town with lots of fudge shops and the main tourist attraction is the roman baths which is like a really old pool, the water is green, its where people used to bath apparently. Windsor was fun, a girl I met on the bus, we were both travelling alone so decided to stick together, we almost missed getting back to the bus on time because we stayed for the march and they close the gates while that's on, but luckily we just made it. Last stop was Stonehenge which was really beautiful and powerful, there was some energy there that was just breathtaking.When I got back to the backpackers that evening there were two new solo back packers sitting in there on their phones. I asked them both if they wanted to head upstairs for food, the Argentinian girl said yes, but the German girl declined.  We headed up stairs and we just clicked, she reminded me of a girl I knew back home and we got along so well. Half an hour later the German girl came and joined us. The night then turned into six rounds of drinks, and four in the morning. The German girl hadn't had a drink in her life before this. We just had so much fun together so spent the next two days and nights just exploring London and partying by night. It was such a fun experience and I really hope I cross path with these girls again, even the Switzerland girls I met on the first night. I met so many amazing people while travelling by myself.After they left, the room was replaced with two German boys, a girl from Perth and some other people I didn't get the chance to associate with. I spent the rest of the week mostly with these three because we were all leaving the same day. The first night however we all went our own separate ways so I went and saw Lion King, in Piccadilly. When I was on the tube home I met this English guy who looked very much like Tom Felton so I went and had a drink with him, it was almost four in the morning when I got back to the back packersHere is the main con about staying in backpackers.An hour after I had passed out, I was awoken from the Perth girl screaming about people being disrespectful and storming out of the room, turning the light on as she did. Turns out some had brought back a girl and they were having sex on their top bunk. He did the walk of shame out of the room, muttering he was sorry, he checked out that morning and didn't come back.The next day I caught up with a friend from Brisbane who was in England for a working visa, we are both awesome nerds, so our day began at Kings Cross Station where we tried to get onto the platform 9 3/4 to catch the Hogwarts express. It then continued onto Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum where we did some fabulous poses with fake famous people and characters, it was a good laugh. We ended the day giving my Mushu Pop Figurine and her Simba one a play date while we had a delicious Indian dinner with some mouth watering cocktails.Just a note for the photo below, I'm a Hufflepuff also, but I lost at scissors, paper, rock.I spent the next day wondering around some parks, oxford street and other places with the girl from Perth, we then went to the Asian restaurant, she says they have it all over the world and she goes to it in each country. I can see why, it was such good food, I still often crave it. We then returned to the room to get dressed up, we joined the German Boys, had a few drinks and went clubbing. The clubs are so much fun, they played Disney music, like what?In one part of the night, the Perth girl had gone home, one of the German boys was flirting and the other was dancing by himself in the middle of the dance floor with his awesome dance moves, so I was by myself dancing and the photographer was going to have the DJ announce I need friends. Luckily some guy heard this and came over and pretended he knew me, the photographer didn't believe us so asked us what each others names were, we both guessed, completely wrong guesses but it was enough to make the photographer let me off the hook.It was a great night, but I was not looking forward to getting up early and hungover to find a train to Scotland.
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Published on July 11, 2016 04:07
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