An early start for my morning flight to London (Stansted). Seamless integration of Salzburg transportation - S3 to the Hauptbahnhof, from there Bus 2 to Mozart Airport. The weather was pretty dreary, a good time to be getting away!
The pre/post flight processes at both airports was pretty simple. The flight itself was on time, got a window seat and an empty seat next to me. Sat next to my new friend from south of Salzburg, Gabriele and spent most of the flight chatting.
Got some pounds out of an ATM (I wasn't prepared for just how quickly these would go!) and took the train into Liverpool St Station where I met my London guide for the day - aka Pammy! After a crash course in Oysters, Tubes and Coloured Lines we had some great lunch at the Slug and Lettuce. I was to discover that London has ..alot.. of department stores, that are all huge and all packed, all the time!
Thursday evening we found my host for the night, Oliver. Discovered Brick Lane and places around here along with some good Indian food for dinner.
Most exciting to actually understand the signs, conversations and media going on around me for a change! Advertisements seem to be jumping out at me after I've learned to switch off to them in Austria....and newspapars -- absolutely loving being able to read a newspaper for a week! (and the British journalist have a very entertaining way of writing, not like the good ol' SMH).
Somehow I ended up with no photos from today...but the next few days more than make up for that!
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