4 posts tagged “london”
After along 8+hour flight,
i get to nice and cold London. Immigration was a breeze this time. there was guy with my name on a sign waiting to take me to the hotel. It was along and twisty drive.since i was working on little sleep and a little hungry, i started to feel a bit sick. Then all of a sudden we are at the Thames and minutes from the hotel. I check in and i'm on the 7th floor. that would be considered the 8th floor in america, but they clal gorund level ground and the first level up 1, which makes sense, but is just slightly different enough that i was constantly pressing the wrong buttons.
I feel exhausted, so i sleep until about 5pm. then i walk up farringdon road to black friars bridge.
along that road was a nice irish pub where i has a chicken and mushroom stew.I walked across black friars bridge to south bank
it was a bit cold out but not too bad so i walked to the eye. I pondered a bit about going on the eye at night or during the day. there was a pair of girls who wanted on the eye but were under 18 so could not go. we went together. they were very nice. the trip on the eye was quite lovely and i wasn't as scared as i thought i would bethe i walked along to another bridge to cross and see big ben and parliament.
monday i bought a ticket to ride one of the bus tours.
tuesday i spent in the office. then i went back to the hotel room and stayed in. i was tired and exhausted. I tried to watch a cricket game, but it was too confusing.
Wednesday we went to manchester and spent the day in that office. We took the virgin trains there and back. They got me a spectacular seat to see lord of the rings.
It was a musical, which was greatly amusing. it wasn't the most amazing play i've seen, but it wasn't bad. it's like the movie but in musical play form. quite a bit different than the stories, but i guess it's hard to condense 3 books into a play.Thursday i had a more formal interview which was quite intimidating. They i went back to the room and packed a bit since i was going out drinking with some mates. i bought a train ticket to get to the airport. i was a bit early to the train station we were meeting at, so i walked around tottenham court road. Finally we all found each other and walked around a bit to eventually find a pizza express. We got back on the tube and went over to joe's place and sat around chatting and inventing strange drinks.
Friday i had a horrible time wrangling my suitcases on the train. the taxi dropped me off at the correct kings cross station for my train, but i needed the other one to print my ticket. so i missed the first train i wanted to get. they are only a block apart, but that quite far when you are lugging around 3 pieces of luggage. so i get back, and there is not an elevator down to the platform, so the nice usher helped me down. the airport was very easy to navigate. i had a lovely brie cucumber and tomato sandwich. i have come to the realization that i do like brie. i thought i hated it all these years.
now i'm home and quite happy. i'll find out later this week if they offer the job to me or not.
full set of pictures are, as always, on flickr
the interview is going well. i'm going by train to manchester to meet the office there. i'm having a wonderful time aside from my ankle being very painful.
i've taken many pictures, but this internet connection is super slow to upload, not all of them are in my london set yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vampiress144/
I leave for London on November 10th, and I arrive on the 11th. I just love timezones :(
I'm very excited and nervous. I've never been to London before. I'll be navigating their notoriously confusing tube (subway) system to get around.
I finally have everything for my trip except a coat and shoes. It's damn hard to find a nice warm jacket in Orlando. I'll have to hit up the outlet stores this week.
I do have 3 nice suits for interviews. I'll borrowing my friends suitcase so i don't have to squish a week's worth of clothes in one bag.
i have a fair idea of where i need to go to get from the airport to my hotel.
I know i want to go to a museum and the london eye
i've been using http://www.visitlondon.com/ and http://wikitravel.org/en/London for ideas
I have plans to meet up with some internet friend as well.
Anyone have a must see while in london idea?