Sunday, 16th May 2010

Today was another excursion day – we visited London and many of its famous places.

First of all we were at St. Paul’s Cathedral, with the quite huge, amazing dome.
Near Westminster Abbey we stopped, left the bus and split our two classes into three groups, which made some different tours through London.
So we visited, as I already said Westminster Abbey, the House of Parliament (with its clock tower; Big Ben), watched the Changing of the Guards, saw Trafalgar Square and ended our tour a bit later at Piccadilly Circus.
From then we had some time off, so we could, for example, buy a little souvenir for someone. [We were - like everybody from the continent - at !MC DONALD’S!, the last reasonably safe point of good taste in the whole United Kingdom, as Mr Weber had told us.]
So we spent the afternoon doing those different activities and made some interesting

experiences:

• In the Royal Park (everything is Royal in England, as Simon noticed) we sat down and fed some squirrels. They are so cute; also elder people become children if they look at these really cunning animals.

• After this trip through the Park with - you wouldn’t believe it - !Royal! grass, we met somepeople on roller skates, who skated through the streets, with music, a really peaceful demonstration.

• Also interesting were those souvenir T-shirts you can buy in many shops, with funny prints saying things like “(front) I am schizophrenic – (back) Me too”.

• Finally, we made a boat trip to the Tower Bridge, the very famous and great building across the river Thames.
  Our guide told us during the tour some interesting information like this: “London (!) has spent 9 Billion Pounds for renovation work for the Olympic Games in 2012!”

Thus, the day contained a really well mixed program with funny parts to laugh, boring parts to buy something to eat and amazing parts were you could only be astonished about this busy city.