London II - Chelsea

Welcome to part II!

Continuing from last time, I exited Hyde park from the south and went for a walk in Chelsea area (see Chelsea, London). A quick stop in a garden:

Just in case you're curious about buying a property in Chelsea, a little house with 125 sq m:

Cheap housing

Afterwards I made my way up to the Natural History Museum:

NHM

I didn't feel like waiting in lines so I just tokk a few photographs and left. Took the tube to King's Cross station and took a photograph of platform 9 and 3/4 from Harry Potter:

Sorry about the random person, it wasn't easy to get a clear shot. All this and it was still 10 am!

Went outside, and took a shot of St. Pancras station:

St Pancras International

Not very far is the St Pancras Hotel, which is quite amazing to see um close:

If you want to know more: Hotel

After this a went to Camden town and had lunch but didn't take any photographs, I didn't feel like it.

Next post will be about the Zoo.

See ya =)

Lisboa - London

Hello!

Last Sunday I caught my flight to London – Heathrow, the first step of my journey to New Zealand!

Song for the post (click): Fatboy Slim - The Journey

Take-off

It was 15min late, nothing serious. The flight was very smooth, no turbulence, no noise, no crying babies… I was impressed actually.

We were served a mid-flight dinner with two main courses to choose from:

The menu

I chose the veal, of course:

My dinner

It was surprisingly good! The salmon looked very fresh and tasted very nice. The meat was pretty good also, a bit overcooked but good tasting, together with those peas and aspargus. The little peace of bread was warm and crunchy!

This was the replacement dessert:

Fundão Cherry

Honestly I think I prefer the cherries over the rice pudding. And they were really good and very sweet.

Moving on, we started our descent towards London right after the sunset:

Sunset, 5000m high

After landing and parking the plane we have to walk a long way to go and collect our luggage. It's supposed to make you feel like you don't have to wait for the luggage but I was one of the first people to exit the plane and the passport check was rather quick, so I still waited about 15 min for my bag.

Next I walked to the Heathrow Express terminal, a train that passes every 15min and goes directly to Paddington station, 15 min away:

Platform 2

The train chair are very comfortable and there's a lot of room for your bags. I was a bit empty but it was close to 11pm, so I guess it's normal:

Heathrow Express

And a selfie:

=)

No photos from Paddington station, maybe next time.

Bye.