London 2007 - Trip

Vojtěch Šolta

student fr

om grade

seven

I wanted to visit my girlfriend Bára in England. So

I started

looking for some friends who would like to go

with me and see the sights of

London for one week. Michael, Aneta and

Roman told me they wanted to go but

they would have to ask their parents. In the

end the only one who was going

with me was Roman, my schoolmate.

ArrangementsSo we went to the Student Agency office to buy our bus tickets

and eventually our accommodation as well. The accommodation was the biggest problem

because our credit card didn't work on internet. So we asked Bára

to book our accommodation in a hostel.

TravelSo we soon left by train for Prague where we spent

the afternoon and then we set off on our journey.

The travel was O.K and it took about eighteen hours. We got off at London

Victoria Station where Bárawas waiting for us.

We bought one-week underground tickets for 22 pounds

and Bára led us to Belsize hostel in Belsize park.

AccommodationIt was a three-floor building with a

basement. After our having asked a receptionist for the keys of our

booked room she answered we were missing on

her list of guests. She offered us two vacant places but they were much more

expensive than they had been supposed to be. She said we should have

bought the accommodation on internet and we would have saved a lot of money. She

mentioned about 40 pounds (approximately 1600 CZK).

So we had to buy more expensive accommodation and then

we had less money to spend.I lived with three more people. The first

one was Latvian with German citizenship who worked in England.

The others kept changing themselves.

FoodThe food was awful. Breakfast consisted

of toast and jam, beans, sometimes soft boiled eggs, tea and everyday coffee, which we could stand, but most of the main meals were

something like livers and potatoes. We had

a choice between two dishes but the second one was often even worse.

I don't recommend to have a water pipe in a restaurant. It is really very expensive (15 pounds)

and it isn't good.

LondonBára had a fantastic book,

something like "See whole London by

own eyeball". During the week we got familiar with almost all the

well-known London sights: Big Ben, Chelsea,

Greenwich, St. Paul's Cathedral...

The weather was mostly beautiful

and our London sightseeing was amazing.

England is an expensive country

but its sights are worth seeing!