London

On Sunday 23.11. I woke up at 7.30am and started to get ready to leave to city centre and from there 3h journey by bus to London. That was about to be my first time in London ever so I was really excited and even though it was suppose to rain all day I didn't mind. The bus picked us up at 9.25am and then started the journey. We stopped in Coventry too to take some more passengers in and then we went straight to London. It was more like 3,5-4h because of the traffic in London but anyway it wasn't that bad.

After we'd arrived to the Victoria Coach Station we had to go and charge Troy's phone because I didn't have a phone so we needed to use Troy's phone all the time. While waiting for it to charge we went to Subway to have something to eat and then just walked around for a bit. After the phone was charged enough we took a taxi and headed to the Finnish Church which is in London. We had the best taxi driver ever! He was really funny, he chatted with us during the whole way and he even gave us a bit discount. Apparently not every taxi driver is like that in London but we were lucky to have him. He also told us a bit about the sights that we passed.

We finally got to the Finnish church and it just really felt like Christmas for me! So yea there was a Finnish market thing at the church and the had all kinds of Finnish foods and some handmade things like jewerly etc. It was really expensive there though... One 200g chocolate bar was like £6 and in Finland it would about maybe £2-£3 so I didn't really buy much from there. I think it was still nice to go there because it really felt like Christmas and it was nice to taste some Finnish foods again.

After that we had to buy bus tickets but because they don't sell single tickets you have to buy a daily one which means it's a bit more expensive. It was about £8-£9 but if you go to London it's better to buy a daily bus ticket than to travel by taxi unless you are really rich. In London busses can pretty much take you anywhere in the central London so I really recommend that you buy the daily bus ticket.

So after that we took a bus back to Victoria Coach Station and because we were a bit tired we relaxed a bit at the station before we did anything else. After we had rested for a bit we decided to go to see the London Eye. And again one bus took us straight there and the view was really nice! They had Christmas lights everywhere and it kind of felt magical too haha. We decided that we wanted to go to London Eye and even though it was expensive (£20 per one person) it was really beautiful when you saw the whole London from up there but there was one minus side.. I'm scared of hights so I couldn't really move to the edge like everyone else did but at least I did face my fears haha.

After that we decided that we would go back to the Station because it was quite late and dark and we were tired. We had to wait for our bus for an hour and the bus left at 10.00pm from London. The journey back wasn't that long. It was about 2h 45min and everyone was really tired so you didn't really hear much speaking. We didn't really do much in London but it was nice anyway. Yes, I'll go there again just for shopping because I just have to and I'm here for a year.

We finally arrived to Birmingham and because it was 15 to 1am which is really late in this case so no one was in town. It was really nice contrast  because I'm used to seeing the town packed with people and it's pretty loud in there but now it was really quiet. I kind of liked it tbh. We tried to look if there were any busses that would go at that time but there weren't any so we had to take a taxi.

Finally I made it to my house and I was really tired and I had college the next day so I pretty much fell asleep straight away. I had a really fun day and it was definitely something different if you compare to my days over here in Birmingham. In my opinion London isn't like really amazing but I don't think it was bad either.

-Hanna xx

20/11/2014

In this post I'm just going to show you some photos of the last couple of days. There is a thing called German Market in Birmigham during Christmas and basically it's in the city centre and they have booths where they have different kind of foods, handmade stuff, chocolate, pastrys etc. and ofc booths where they sell beer because it's German Market. There are some booths that don't even have German stuff like for example one booth had Ostrich meat and one which had reindeer meat.. So the whole market isn't German but anyway it's called the German Market. It also has a Ferris wheel, a merry-go-round and a place for ice skating which I just have to go to because I'm from Finland.

So I have some photos of that and I'll probably take some more photos of it too because it's here for quite a while. And then some other photos too. Enjoy (:

My bro<3

 



-Hanna xx

Weekend

Yes I was really busy last week and quite busy this week too even though I've been ill all the time haha. Anyways last weekend I had 2 county matches which were a bit further away. One of them was in Glasgow, Scotland and the other one somewhere in England haha honestly don't remember where but about 2h drive upwards from Birmingham. The nights we stayed at a hotel in Carlisle and sorry to say that I didn't take any photos of the hotel but I did take some during the trip. I took them with my camera because as you know someone stole my phone and haven't got a new one yet but my dad has bought me one already from Finland and he'll send it to me as soon as he gets it.

On Friday evening at 7.40pm the coach and some players came and picked me up from home. And then it started.. The 3h long drive to Carlisle to our hotel. Well I don't really mind travelling so it wasn't that and let's say that company was quite good too haha. I even slept a bit during that 3 hours but when we finally got to the hotel I was really tired so I went almost straight to bed.

On Saturday morning we had a nice lie in and we had to wake up at somewhere around 10am. Then we went to eat some breakfast, packed our stuff and headed towards Glasgow. The drive was only about 1,5h which wasn't bad at all. We played 15 matches and I played in 4 of them. And I didn't win any of them.. But I hadn't done any sports in a week because I was ill so I think I have a reason to blame that. But all the matches were really close and I can just say that I was unlucky that day. We lost to Glasgow 8-7.

The hall that we played in in Scotland

After our matches we showered and went to Glasgow's centre. They had a German market over there too but apparently it wasn't as big as the one in Birmingham. We walked trough the city centre and it kind of already felt like it was Christmas because all of the lights and the decorations. They really do start Christmas early over here in UK. Not that I really mind because I love Christmas (:

After we had walked a while we went to a restaurant and I ate some kind of chicken enchilladas (not actually sure how to write it..). I had a massive headache pretty much during the whole evening and that's why I just wanted to get to the hotel as soon as possible but otherwise it was a nice day in Scotland.

After the meal we went back to our cars and drove all the way back to our hotel. Everyone especially me were tired but luckily some of the other players gave me some tablets and water so I felt a bit better and sleeping in the car also helped with my headache. And when we got to Carlisle I packed all my stuff and went pretty much straight to bed because I knew that we had an early morning next day.

 



 

On Sunday I woke up around 8.30am which really isn't super early but it's still too early.. I didn't really have time to eat breakfast properly so I just grabbed some food with me and then we had a 2h drive to the other place where we played. Before we went to the hall we went and bought some food and went also to costa. This time I played way better than I did in Glasgow. Or at least I won all of my matches. So I played 4 matches and won all of them and if I remember right we won 10-5 or something like that against that team. I was really tired and stiff during and after those matches so I was just really happy to go home and rest.

 

 

 

As you can see the weather is unpredictable..

 

After the matches we showered and started to drive home and it took about 2h again. I had a really nice weekend and I really enjoyed seeing other places in the UK. I hope I get more these kind of chances. Well I hope everyone had a lovely weekend and enjoy your next one too!

 

-Hanna xx