So... I didn't want to bring down the last blog with the story of what happened with our flights, but I may just explain it a little now to fill everyone in. Not to get sympathy or anything like that, but it may just benefit someone, someday, as no matter how prepared you are shit can go wrong!
The long story short is that our flight was cancelled/rescheduled and were not advised. The tough bit though, was that as we had a particular type of agency tickets that means only STA could reschedule us. And they were uncontactable/unhelpful etc. So we were stuck in the airport for 23hours in total I think, & ended up having to wait 2 more days anyway and purchasing new tickets ourselves. We are seeking compensation & all that jazz, but the moral of the story is to check what kind of ticket you have and that the airline can always help/reschedule, because it would have saved us a whole bunch of trouble, and really once you leave, you dont want to be relying on a company in another counrty/timezone etc.
But as you all know, we are now safe & happy in London!
So... we flew into Stansted which is the airport quite a while out from the city so decided we would stay in a little town close to instead of making the trek in late at night. The town was Bishop Stortford. It was so refreshing to be here, the bus driver of the bus we caught ( the bus really? a bus driver? who'd have thought?) Anyway this big jolly bloke was so friendly & helpful we just felt welcome.
The town was exactly what you expect of Britian & cuper cute, we stayed in a B&B where the host asked us what time we would like Breakfast & what we wanted. Was fantastically traditional & I wish we had more time there.
Anyway ,we are now in Kilburn for a week, just to the NW of the city & it has been heaps of fun. We are only a few minutes from everything & have a room with an oven and everything so are eating well again ( anythings better than airport food!) We went to Big Ben & checked out Westminster Abbey and so forth, we went to Lords Cricket Ground, and today we strolled through Portobello Markets. I tell you if I was rich I could have blown ALOT of money, and am still kicking myself for not getting this super cute dress...but anyway...
Yesterday we also went to Abbey Road Studio's. We walked across the crossing (yay!) but due to all the cars, couldnt get a pic of us doing so...so we shall return!
Loving the history & the stereotypical things to Love ( the cops hats, phone boxes, buses etc)Looking forward to continuing to explore everything! Oh & we got absolutely drenched both of the last 2 days because it seems to like to trick us with sun in the mornings, we will learn!
Tomorrow its Buckingham Palace for The Changing of the Guard, and then Leicester Sq, Picadilly Circus & the famous Apple Building where The Beatles did their rooftop concert.
Every day is full of wonder & fun. Very Happy & looking forward to the rest!
Much love
xxx
No comments:
Post a Comment