London for the 3rd time on this trip

Trip Start Nov 23, 2005
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Trip End Feb 27, 2007


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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

We arrived in London at Gatwick airport, neither one of us had been to this one before. It cost an arm and a leg to get into the city from here, the tube does not run to Gatwick. I think it was about 40 pounds(over $80 Canadian) for a train pass, it did include an all day pass for the tube though. We made our way into the center of the city. We had prebooked a hotel near Paddington station. We managed to get a nice hotel for 60 pounds, which was an absolute steal. When we arrived they had no info on our reservation, thank goodness we got the name of the guy who booked it and had taken our credit card number. It turned out in our favour, they had no rooms left for what we booked, and we were upgraded to a king size bed in a larger room.

We didn't have a lot of time to do things. We decided to end the last night of our trip with seeing a show. What better way to end it with the irony of bringing our trip around full circle from where it started. We saw the live performance of the Lion King. It was amazing, we would recommend it to people of any age group. The costumes were magnificent. The show started with life size elephant costumes coming down the aisles of the theater. There were giraffes, leopards, all kinds of birds, lions, and zebra. there were many moving parts to the stage and set. The music was great too. One of the best parts of the show was the hyenas, there were 3 of them that were hilarious, it was like watching the 3 stooges. It was a great way to end the last day of our trip and bring back incredible memories of Africa for us. Unfortunately photographs were not allowed.  I wish we could have taken some to show the incredible costumes to everyone.

The next day we had about 2 hours to waste between check out and needing to get on the tube to Heathrow for our flight. We hopped on the tube and went to Harrods, we wanted to check out the store, since neither one of us had ever seen it. We had heard so much about their Christmas set up. It was a beautiful set up of Christmas trees decorated with all kinds of things. We also went to a tearoom across the street and had a big pot of tea and the most delicious scones with Devonshire cream and jam, yummmmmmm.

Now off to the airport to fly back home to Vancouver. What a mixed bag of emotions we were. We could not believe the year was over. We were sad about that, but excited to come home and see family and friends.
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