London

The last week Dawe took a short trip to London, as the flights are usually quite inexpensive from Zaragoza. It was fun, although he spent only two days there (not counting the arrival and departure). As he doesn't want to bore you with all the details, he will only write some aspects that you will need to consider when you want to go there - and, of course, show you some pictures ;)

General advices:

• The airport (speaking about Stansted) is huuuuge. It takes a lot of time to go to your gate; take this definitely into account when you are departing from London. Moreover, it takes around 2 hours from there to go to the city centre of London - no matter if going by train or bus, it's basically the same.
• London is really, really expensive. Additionally, be advised that you have to pay for almost everything extra if you are staying in, for instance, a hostel. This includes also 'commodities', such as wi-fi... even though the web page states "our rooms have wi-fi" - yeah, sure, if you pay for it. Furthermore, it will cost you around 20 Pounds (yes, Pounds, not Euros) to eat out. In Chinatown you can get food cheaper, for instance, buffets from 10 Pounds but if you want to go to a 'real' restaurant, I guess it will be easily over 100. If you don't have that much money, you will only eat in fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Subway... I even saw a 'Five Guys' (I thought those ones only exist in America?)
• If you do not want to run the entire day through the city and getting tired, you will want to take the subway. You can easily get an 'Oyster Card', which you can top up. At the end of your stay, you can return it and the remaining money on the card will be refunded. However, it is complicated to understand how it works and where you can change the subway. This results in the fact that you will usually have to ask locals for directions. 
• The same goes for the city. With its many small avenues and streets, you will be in need of a map. But be aware that not all streets are incorporated into the maps and often details are being left out. Unfortunately, you can't get those ones at the airport but every tourist information centre has it. We got our from some girls I approached (if, by any chance in the world, one of the girls is reading my blog.. BIG THANKS to you! You saved our lives!)
• London has many things to offer and it is way too much to see in a few days. Hence, I would recommend to, first, plan everything beforehand what you want to visit and, secondly, to try to stay as long as possible - or as long as you can afford it ;) For instance, we wanted to visit four museums and many other things but we simply ran out of time.
• The weather is... let's put it this way, different from the climate in Zaragoza or Spain in general. Consequently, you will need a jacket. In my case, I was welcomed by rain... typical for England.
• If you are low on budget, I assume you'll book a hostel. Maybe you should consider not to go for the cheapest one, as I am sure that it won't provide any quality in terms of accommodation.
• Different districts, different people. Camden town is fun to see the market there, but you do not want to spend the night there. In the city centre, you will see a lot of rich people, cars that cost way beyond €100,000 and, of course, many tourists from all over the places.
• However, no matter where you go, you will encounter many coffee shops. Recapping, I think every corner has a Starbucks!

Regarding the pictures you are about to witness, I will just pick some random ones, as we made over 500... would take days to upload all of them ;)

Street artist

London weather ;)

Big Ben by night

London Eye

Food from Chinatown

Yeah, pretty common to see such cars in London, especially by night...

... but also throughout the day

You will DEFINITELY need that!

Calling home ;)

The street artist from above.. I really laughed out loud during his show. Also wanted to upload parts of it but somehow Blogger doesn't want to allow me to upload videos..

Sometimes you just need some time to relax and enjoy the view

An M&M's store

National British Museum... I think we spent there over four hours. Originally we thought to visit four museums but in the end we had only time for two.