Day 5 London

Today we walked our asses off to see a large department store. Sound ridiculous? It was. We walked through the Palace again, followed some smelly horses under an old arch, walked by lots of designer stores and eventually arrived at Harrod’s. After two minutes looking on the ground floor, we couldn’t remember why we came, and after a small domestic in the poshest store in London, we walked out. We ‘discussed’ things on the footpath, and decided that after our friggin long trek, we weren’t leaving now. We rode the elevators, took illegal photos of the food hall, played in the Toy Department, and then walked out again.


We went through Hyde Park (the real one….) and walked all the way down Oxford Street and went home to make dinner. We caught up with an Aussie friend after dinner in Trafalgar Square, while watching a live screening of Swan Lake Ballet from the theatre on the large screen and drinking wine and beer (really cheap from the supermarket).


We remembered at 10PM that we had to get up again in a couple of hours! Our flight to Edinburgh left Gatwick Airport at 06:30 the next morning…this meant we had to check in at 4:30….this meant that we had to be on a bus to Gatwick at 03:30….which meant we had to leave the hotel by 2:00 am……We ummed and ahhed about going to the Airport that night, but decided we’d paid for a bed, and even a couple of hours sleep would do us good!! We woke up at 1:00 am and set off on a very exciting adventure! It was pitch black, so quiet in London and we had to get 2 buses to the coach station. We worked ourselves out and arrived at the coach station with heaps of time to spare! We boarded our bus to Gatwick at 03:30 and made our plane to Edinburgh on time!