London pt.2

Second day of London was supposed to be an early wake-up day, but being that we're on vacation... we got there around noon :)

Still, the weather was fine so that was still plenty of time to see a good deal of things.
The eastern part of the centre around Thames was the goal for today, and we started off towards the Tower of London.
However, on the way we are distracted by an egg-shaped skyscraper so we decide to first go see it from up-close.
It's called "The Gherkin" and is a 180m tall skyscraper designed with energy-saving in mind (from aerodynamics to materials used).

After some twisting and turning we got back to the Tower of London, which looked as though no one works here on Friday. It was packed full of people enjoying the (finally) no-rain sunny weather.

We didn't have time to enter and explore the Tower, so we proceeded down the bank of Thames towards the Tower Bridge, which is another famous London site:

Unfortunately, no luck in having a taller ship pass through so we'd see it actually rise.
Moving on to the next site "no one visiting London should miss" - the St.Paul´s Cathedral! :)
However, in between the famous spots, there are other things I just can't miss posting. Wouldn't you just love to eat under a dog that looks like he's just about to pee on you:

Anyway, yeah, the St. Paul's Cathedral:

You might notice that I'm rushing through this post quite a bit. This is partially due to the fact that we rushed through London as well and didn't visit as many things, we just looked around from the outside. Other part is because I'm sitting in a Cayafate net cafe now listening to some local Argentinian music and hurrying to start writing about South America!! :D

And yeah, one reason we didn't enter as many of the sights in London, other than lack of time, is that London is EXTREMELY expensive. We went to this trip with a planned budget for South America. For a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral (which is btw packed full of tourists and you're not even allowed to take photos inside anymore - sorry, but giving 12 GBPs for that is a ripoff in my book!) I can go to a full-day trip to Argentinian glaciers, transport included.

Anyways, back to London ;)
Trafalgar Square deserves a mention here I think:


And these signs that are actually quite useful to any non-Brit here, as the cars seem to always come from where you least expect them :)


Anyway, this day finished at home with a nice barbeque and taking of some family photos (mum will be happy ;)), no sleep at all, and a travel to Heathrow Airport at 3AM to catch the 6:20 flight to Buenos Aires via Madrid.

And now we're here, in a place which looks like time has stood still here for quite a while, except that the type of shop that is most found here is an internet cafe! (we found three in the first five minutes here lol)

Anyway, from now on, all our posts are belong to South America (except the one Marko is writing now and will contain some more impressions from London in a less "reporting" manner ;))

Adios Amigos,
Daniel