New kids on the block

DayTwo.

I'll begin day two with, leaving heathrow. Honestly not proud of how i look in any of these pictures, but anyways ...

I actually walked around london looking like that with my hair like that. shocking, i know xD

So our first 30 mins trying to understand the tube vs. the normal train line was confusing.* We finally got the hang of it and sorted ourselves out with an oyster card, best thing out! So anyways, we had to make it from heathrow to central london to collect our keys for the apartment. It was a lovely, (standing) ride from heathrow to Camden Town.** the country was beautiful, meadows and flowers everywhere, mmm so pretty! (i have videos not pictures of this). My sister was mesmerised by this boy who got on with the clearest blue eyes, he was not white btw, it was seriously cool. Anyways ... Man, the underground is amazing, there are dedicated trains (colour coded by the line) and the trains come every 2-3 mins! so no worries about missing your train.***

One disadvantage is, many stops on the tube don't have lifts or escalators D: so i attempted and failed so hard at trying to lug my suitcase around. And since the trains come so often i had little time to try and get up the stairs before the next train came, i was not fast enough because before i knew it a new horde of commuters bleed out of the train. However, at Piccadilly a lovely gentleman with lovely blue eyes, actually carried my suitcase up two flights of stairs.. how amazing is he?

I wish i had a picture of all my luggage but sadly, i don't xD so i can't show you the amount of excessive weight i was lugging around. Our short stop at Camden Town to pick up the keys landed us straight outside american apparel, i was so tempted to run in there, but i refrained**** Anyways, from Camden it was onto The London Bridge stop on the tube. I only have love for the tube, except for lack of lifts whilst we had suitcases xD 

i look terrible but this photo has many things i wanna show. 1. red double deckers :) 2. union jack taxis, they look super awesome. 3. mini cooper :D 4. look at the traffic! So crazy how people drive around here!

so anyways, after our mission around london to get the keys for our apartment, we got to london bridge station and was confused as to the direction of our apartment. LOL, so silly of us. so we walked for 10 mins up and down the streets, admiring as we went, but getting further frustrated at our luggage at the same time, at least i was :( the jet lag didn't help, good thing london time is behind tho i guess. 

So my sister and her boyfriend planned an early flight so we would have a full day and not waste it, due to a late flight, made no difference lol. so after about 20 mins of aimless wanderings we managed to head in the direction of tower bridge. once in view of this iconic blue we knew where we were :) and ta da, 2 mins later we were turning the key to the door of the apartment :) weeeeeeeee yay. 

so after dropping off the luggage. we went in search of a grocery store. left our apartment and turned left then we ended up at sainbury, 8 mins away, pretty convenient (so we thought). It was pretty awesome, had everything and HEAPS of fresh fruit for around a pound, lol they charged 18pence for a banana sounds quite weird to pay per banana ayes? but oh wells we had nectarines and plenty of strawberries (2 packs of 1kg varieties of berries for 5pounds, sounds good to me). so we set off back to the apartment with our purchases, i just wanted to dig into the strawberries, mmmmmmm.*****

got back to our apartment only to discover that there was a small grocery store 3 doors down on our right, biggest LOL! not to worry the fresh fruit selection at the other place was much better so not too devo, but still lol since it had everything else we needed xD good for anything else we might need i guess.

What i love: there are bike stations every where. So like you can hire a bike for the hour, day ... etc and return it at any of the bike stations all over london. honestly, you can't go 500m without finding a bike hire station. damn, fit europeans! hahahahaha, such a cool thing tho.

i honestly don't remember what else i wanted to add to this so i'll just end it here. hahaha, perils of doing something after it's happened, only worsened by the fact i left it this long to complete hehehehehe. oh wells.

*Totally professional now, LOL not really but i understand how it works and i ADMIRE IT!

** PEAK HOUR, so many people squeezed into the train ... people leave for work at 9-10am unlike the 7-8am we have in sydney

*** Cityrail, you just FAIL so hard!

**** luggage was holding me back, damn you silly julia, PACK LIGHT NEXT TIME! I'm sending half my shit home soon xD

***** The grapes here are amazing! so sweet :) so cheap!