London > Classes

My class skipping last week continued with a trip to London to visit Andrea. 4 days was the perfect amount of time to see all the major attractions without being exhausted at the end of the day. I think I actually saw everything and even got fish and chips for only 3 pounds! The city has a different feel from Oslo - much more sophisticated and populated. One thing though that is similar to Oslo are the high prices for everything. Womp.

I was completely overwhelmed when we went to Harrods. I knew it was an upscale store but I expected it to be more like Saks Fifth. Nope. Saks Fifth is like Walmart compared to Harrods. Harrods was HUGE. A maze of designer clothes, shoes, toys, home decor, kidswear, accessories, and pet things. We picked up a scarf that was 950 pounds! It even had 2 gift shops just for the store. If we even got close to touching something there was always someone a couple feet away from us watching to make sure we didn't ruin it.

Harrods

Designer pillows for your dog? Why not.

Camden was the most interesting part of London. It had tons of quirky shops and delicious smelling food places. We were bombarded with free samples of chicken just walking down the food strip. And other times when they wouldn't openly offer us samples we'd just stick our hands out and ask for them. It worked most of the time.

They had fish pedicures where the fish would swim around (and eat stuff from?) your feet

Places to sit 

Andrea and I managed to get many people to fall in love with us, including a duck inside Regents Park. You may think it was just hungry and begging for food, but really it fell in love with me.

It came right up to me and put its beak against the fountain <3

And here are some touristy pics:

Lions in Trafalgar Square

Had to.

Getting back to my bed in Oslo was problematic and tiring. First the bus back to downtown Oslo was delayed so I arrived after the last metro. Since I didn't want to pay for the cost of a taxi by myself, I opted to sleep in the bus terminal for 4 hours. Doesn't sound too terrible...but the heat wasn't on, they would only let me sleep sitting up instead of lying down, the bathroom cost 10 kroner, and there was a questionably drunk homeless man winking at me and asking "Hvordan har du det?" Google translate that if you don't know Norwegian.