London - Day 5

Soho, Totoro, milk tea, scooter seats, Soho is watching you.

Day 5 - Tuesday

Today, we returned to Oxford Street, Soho and Lomography where I bought a Diana Flash for my film cameras. Then we walked to the end of Regent Street, almost to Piccadilly Circus and stopped by Lush to by some lotions. Luna tried to return a ring for a friend, but it turned out you had to go to the exact shop where you bought it, meaning we'd have to go to York. That being unlikely, we went to Camden Lock Market again, though unfortunately, I did not get the chance to look around the Horse Tunnel/Stables Market, since it was already quite late. I did however buy a delicious cup of milk tea, complete with tapioca. Yummy!

DFTBA!

London - Day 2

Day 2 - Saturday

King's Cross, Regent Street, Morris dancers? and Regent's Canal in Camden

On our first full day in London, we decided to split up. We were, after all, seven people travelling together. Luna, Lene, Margrethe and I went to Oxford Street to check out the shopping possibilities. We ended up spending most of our time off Oxford street, wandering the smaller streets of Soho, and among other things checking out a camera shop that Margrethe knew. She had shown us one of her cool little analogue cameras, and I was intrigueg, so when we entered the shop I fell completely in love with Lomography (the name of the shop). I ended up buying two cameras, the Fisheye 2 and the Diana Mini, as well as two packs of films (3 rolls of 400 ISO for cloudy days and 3 rolls of 100 ISO for sunny days). Luna also bought the Fisheye 2.

When we walked out of the shop, we found ourselves next to a crowd who were watching some dancers. I'm not completely sure what kind of dance they were doing, but it looked like a traditional dance, and since it was St. George's Day, my guess is they were Morris dancers (not that I have a clue).

After watching some dancing, we took the tube up to Camden and walked through the market. Lene and I got separated from Luna and Margrethe, and when they got tired and went home, we decided to go check out the Camden Lock Market, which Lene had been to once before.

In the evening we had Indian food, which was not only overpriced, but also billed us for the bread we got before the meal (which they didn't tell us wasn't free). (Meanwhile, Nikoline, Knut and Camilla had been to a micro brewery, and when we met them again they were quite tipsy.)

Tomorrow: Day 3 in London.

DFTBA!

Easter

Easter means spring is (almost) here. At least in Oslo. It also means the end of my fast/lent.

The last week, temperatures have been up to approximately 16 degrees centigrade, or "t-shirt weather" as I like to call it. The next step is "shorts weather" btw. Seeing the sun high in the sky, and being able to go outside without a jacket, and also the fact that it's light out longer than 6pm has lightened my mood. The fact that I'm almost done with all my obligatory assignments this semester also helps, even though I feel far from prepared for my exams in May/June, but I won't worry about those yet.

Since spring is here, I've done a bit of spring cleaning, even though I should probably do about three times as much. Hopefully my flat won't look too bad for Good Friday, but I'm not promising myself anything. Hehe.

So, lent ends 22./23. April, I'm not exactly sure which day, but it doesn't really matter, as I don't mind waiting until after I've seen the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who on the 23rd. I'm not watching it just anywhere either. I'm actually in London at the time, and will for the first time ever see an episode as it is being aired on BBC1. And then, I'll have a pint. Yeah!

Me and 6 of my friends are going to London this Easter, and will be staying there for a few days. I hope, since we are so many, that we'll do more sightseeing than me and my friends did in Edinburgh and Berlin last year. But of course we're not going to avoid shops at all costs. I for one really want to find a shop with Doctor Who merch (and other geeky stuff), buy a ukulele and go to Camden Market. If I know my friends right, I won't be going alone to any of those places.

When it comes to sightseeing I'm not very picky (although I expect Madamme Tussauds to be severly over-priced), and I'd just like to walk around part of the city, looking at the builings and people. The only thing that is a must for me, is watching the musical Lion King, and I'm confident we will go see it one night.

DFTBA!