My Trip To London - FERGAL MC EVOY ORIEL 1

My trip started on the 10th of March at 3.00am in the morning. I got up and had my breakfast, I was so excited. I gathered my luggage and proceeded to the school for 3.45am. All my friends were there in the dark. The anticipation was un-real. I had never been in London before so I didn’t no what to expect. The bus arrived at the school and we all put are luggage on the bus. We piled on the bus and we made our way to Dublin airport. We arrived at approximately 5.45am; we then collected our luggage from the back of the bus and then we went to the check in desk for Ryan Air.

I could feel the excitement starting to get more thrilling.Eventually we started to fly. At 9.30am we arrived in London, collected our bags and then got into the groups that we were told to go into.

My guardian for the next few days was Willy the caretaker.

We walked to the front of the airport to meet the bus that took us to view the sights of London, like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and then we had lunch in Mc Donald’s restaurant. In the afternoon we went to see Madam Tussades Wax Museum, it was good crack, I got to make a waxy hand in the down county colours red at the top and black at the bottom.

We got our dinner in an Italian restaurant which I did not enjoy, because I don’t like Italian food, but the next few hours made up for the disappointing food, we then went to see THE LION KING. I had never experienced anything kike this before the atmosphere, the music, the acting were all excellent I would like to recommend this show to anyone.

The first day was almost over and at this stage I was feeling pretty tired, as I had been going from 3.00am that morning we then got to the youth hostel were we were staying and it was now bed time.

I slept in a room with my cousin John and friend Conrad; we played a few card games and then fell asleep.

The next morning we got up and had our breakfast in the youth hostel, I had bacon egg and toast. The day was planned out for us to go and visit the RAF Museum and the Natural History Museum this took up most of the day, approximately 5 hours. Then it was teatime, I had Chicken and Chips, this I enjoyed it was better than last night’s meal. We then went to the Namco Centre it was brilliant; although you had to watch your money as this was well known for pick pocketing. I was looking forward to the next day, it was a visit to Hamleys toy store, and it was like a wonderland for all age groups. I bought a few gifts to take home and spent most of my time in the games room with John and Conrad.

The day was coming to an end, it was now time to proceed to the bus to visit Covent Gardens were we bought some joke objects like farting gas and bangers. The bus was waiting for us to take us back to the airport it was now 4.30pm and we should now be getting prepared to meet our families again.

When we checked in at the airport I rang home and explained to my mother that I should be home in Newry at 1.00am. I arrived home at exactly 1.00am TIRED AND EXHAUSTED, but I enjoyed every minute of it, and would recommend this trip to any New first years.