15 May 2011
London trip: Day 5
In the morning, we went to Emirates stadium which is the Arsenal FC's home stadium. One of my friends who went to London with is the big fun of Arsenal FC. And he wanted to visit the stadium, buy some goods at official shop... Then we went there. Unfortunately, the weather was not good at all on this day. But we could know how big it is! I visited some stadiums in Japan such as Ajinomoto stadium in Tokyo, but the Emirates stadium was much larger than stadiums in Japan, I felt.
If we could, we would like to watch the match there. But we couldn't do so as I wrote before.
After we visited the stadium, we went to Buckingham palace. We've already checked the schedule of changing of the guard. Fortunately, we could arrived there on time, and saw that.
In front of the palace, we saw rainbow colored cab. We saw many cabs during our stay, but we didn't ride it at all. So if I have a chance, I would like to ride it.
After we saw changing of the guard, we went to Fortnum & Mason. I didn't know this shop, but my friend told me. According to my friend, Fortnum's is famous tea shop in London. When we arrived at Fortnum's, there were many Japanese tourists. They were buying so many teas and tea goods there, but I didn't have much money to buy such a many stuff there. So I bought one tea for my family.
I also didn't know the name Camden Market. At Camden market, there were many shops and I felt it's a little like Takeshita-dori where Tokyo's shopping district for young people.
But I felt it's much stylish, because I found two cool paintings near there. Of course, there are many graffiti also in Tokyo, but I felt most of them are looks so ugly, and I don't like most of graffiti in Tokyo.
We used Baker street station again and again during our trip, but we've never been 221B until the final day. So as our memorial, we get off the tube and went to 221B on this day.
Also, as our memorial we went to abbey road.
Well, we were not big fun of the Beatles, but there were fun of the Beatles who were taking pictures. Some of them were standing on zebra crossing to behave like cover picture of the Beatles' album "Abbey road".
But it's not look like cover picture, because the line on the road changed...
We had a lot of places where we visited on this day, and sky was getting dark. Yes, we needed to think about our final dinner during our stay.
Well, we were planning to take dinner at British pub during our stay at least one night. So, here it is. We went to pub near Hyde park. And this is the fish & chips. I felt it's so big!!
We ate this with British beer.
We mostly used undergrounds (or I should say tube?) during our stay. We bought Oyster card on first day, because it seems to be easy to pay our fares. In Japan, there are some similar prepaid card such as Suica. These prepaid cards are really useful because we don't have to buy tickets. The card automatically calculate the correct fee when we touched the gates.
I think, it's really useful, but I felt a little inconvenience. I felt a little inconvenience, because the gates sometimes didn't work right. And we needed to touch the card strongly to gates. Suica works so rapidly and we don't have to touch to the gates so strongly. Then I felt a little inconvenience. Anyway, it helped me to travel with undergrounds.
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I won't write about day 6 and day 7 as stand-alone article, because I don't have anything to write about that. Day 6, the day which our airplane leave London. So, we spend our time mostly at Heathrow Airport. Just waiting for the departure.
On day 7, we came back to Tokyo before noon. The airplane arrived at Narita Airport. And that is really far away from my house. I hope all of them will depart and arrive at Haneda Airport.
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