so here we are at our london hotel, the luna simone. sabz and gen got the normal sized twin beds...
... and i got some jacked up cot that was as wide as the length of my arm. i feared rolling off the bed all three nights we spent there.
us eating at an italian restaurant on the first night there... mostly cuz it was close by and still open.
we strolled by buckingham palace... i took this time lapse shot and realized there was a dude in the picture taking a similar shot. good thing he didn't move cuz it made for a sweet shot for me :)
ano? mayron tindahan pilipino sa london?... i guess so! too bad i didn't go in. i wonder what their food tastes like.
me sitting atop a double decker tour bus exposed to the elements... everyone got the covered seats!
in the little black cab en route to the london eye. it was suggested that we pre-purchased our tickets for the eye at the same time we book our trip, so we did. you get to pass the lines and basically walk right into the pod. however, a gloomy london day does the exact same thing! we had maybe a dozen to 20 people in our pod, but it holds up to 40 or 50. it was quite spacious and very enjoyable. they say you can see 40km around on a sunny clear day. but you can see the major london sights pretty well on a cloudy, drizzly day too.
i know it says to NOT lean against the doors... but i DID! (just for a split second, tho! that thing is SO high up!).
even homer got scared.
135 meters up. aaahhhhhh!the view from the eye...
big ben/saint stephens clock
county hall
pods
photos of westminster abbey
yummy... lol!
ummm i mean, THIS was yummy. enjoy the sandwich shops in london... it's about all i could afford!
trafalgar square
ugh... pigeons.
the hop-on hop-off buses were a great way to get around. we took it for the first day and a half cuz we'd be seeing the sights anyways and the bus would get us there... if only it would stop raining!
hyde park gate
30 saint mary axe a.k.a. the gherkin
the tower of london
yes, it was a bit windy.
ridiculously hot water at a hotel washroom.
much like our grizzlies and orcas, london has guitar monuments all over the place.
on a ferry on the thames... inclusive of our hop-on hop-off bus pass.
i gotta hit up the tate museum next time i'm in london.
the eye from the thames
the view from our hotel window... hey is that sun?!
so the last full day we were there, we were lucky enough to see the sun!... it lasted for a minimal amount of time... but we managed to catch the changing of the guards.
and THIS guy looked just like a greasy papper!!
and there are the guards.
wait a sec...
those guys are radio controlled!!
oh harrods! how i wish i were ballin!... this place made me feel so poor. there really were middle-eastern royalty shopping all over the place. and ferraris, and lambos and even a corvette. an american car in london? madness. that's why we hit up the confectionery... i bought delicious chocolates.
mmmm goodies. too bad it's all marzipan... bleah!!
walking around and being silly...
this was actually laid into the concrete. haters!
fun in kensington park
it was getting gloomier as we got to portobello road and nottinghill
on the regular public transit bus. and gen just can't get enough sleep!
so this concludes the london leg of our trip. isn't rain just great?
