London & South East England

Hey folks, after my Trip to Egypt a few weeks ago, I just got back from my (actual) trip to London. You can find some saving tips for London on the bottom of the post. If you just want to see the pics you can find the Set or the Slideshow on Flickr.

On this trip I also played around with the video function of my D90 for the first time.

My journey started on Friday the 7th of August at 5:30am. I took a train to Frankfurt Central Station where I had to catch an ICE heading towards Chemnitz with a change to a local train in Nuremberg. I arrived in Chemnitz at 12pm where a friend picked me up. We headed towards Altenburg Airfield (Yes, that’s field. Not port!) at about 6pm and took a RyanAir flight to London Stanstead for just 10€ incl. all  taxes.

At about 21:45 London time we arrived in Stanstead and passed security after another 60 minutes. We took a bus to Victoria Station and headed towards Heathrow Airport using the District and Piccadilly Lines… Arrived at the Heathrow Terminal 1-2-3 Station at about 1am the next day… There were no busses operating at that time, so we first wanted to walk(!) to our Hotel – the Sheraton Heathrow Airport hotel. But we abandoned that idea very quickly, took a taxi and arrived at the Hotel at about 2am after 23h of being awake. “2 Adults, 1 Child. Is that correct?” Errrrr, nope!!! …

The night was short, we already got back up at 7am, because we had less than 36h for sightseeing in London. My travel buddy did such a great job (she’s already been to London several times), that even though there was a lot of maintenance work going on on the Underground, she managed to get us to all the important sights on the first day.

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Jubilee Line: Completely suspended.

District Line: Part suspended.

Circle Line: Completely suspended.

Victoria Line: Part suspended.

All other lines were operating in good service. (Heck yes and they were crowded!)

In daylight we managed to see Read more…