London

Hello!

Next week we have vacation here in Norway, and then I'm going to visit London with a friend. We're leaving early Monday morning from Gardemoen airport, and arrive at Gatwick airport at eight o'clock. We're going to stay at a hotel called St.Giles, which is located close by the famous Oxford Street.
This will be the first time I'm travelling to England without my parents, therefore my friend and I decided to plan a lot of the activities we want to do before we leave. This way we can get some help and tips from our parents. We've already ordered tickets to the musical Mamma Mia, and I'm really looking forward to that!

From when I was two years old to the age of five and a half, my family and I lived in Wimbledon in England. My father is an architect and was relocated due to a project for British Airways, therefore our whole family moved overseas. Even though I went to a Norwegian kinder garden, I experienced a lot of the English culture and my family made some good friends over there. My family have been visiting our old house and neighbors a couple of times after we moved back to Norway, and I always get this special feeling when I'm in England. I don't think that I will visit Wimbledon this time, but I look really forward to some exciting days in the capital of England!

My friend and I made a list of the things we wanted to see in London on this trip:
~ The musical Mamma Mia
~ Big Ben
~ London Eye
~ Madame Tussauds
~ Buckingham Palace

We used the internett a lot during the preperation for the trip, and I really recomend this website for those of you who are planning a trip to London! The site has a lot of information about hotels, attractions and good shopping areas.

I will probably write something more about the trip when I get back.