Before I left for my European adventure I tried to plan as much as I could about my trip. And I knew when I got to London there was one place I had to see and that was Stonehenge. I booked a tour before I left with a company called Golden Tours. The tour office is located on Buckingham Palace Road which is a bit to far to walk at 7am. I caught a taxi to their office and lined up ready to get on the bus. The bus took 2 hours to get to stonehenge. It was the funniest thing that stonehenge is situated on a side of a road. Your just driving along through the middle of no where and there it is.
When I booked they said the tour lasted 2 hours. The bus drives past stonehenge and down a side street into a little carpark. The busload of people and myself waited on the bus while the bus driver went and got us audio guides. When he came back to the bus he let us know that we have an hour and a half until we need to be back on the bus.
It took a couple of minutes to walk to the information centre from the car park. When I got into the information centre I lined up to take the small bus that runs every couple of minutes up to stonehenge. When I booked this tour I didn't realise it was self guided. I got on the bus and it took a couple of minutes to get up to Stonehenge. When I walked up to the attraction it is roped off around it and have little numbers that when you pressed them on the audio book it explained bits and pieces about the ancient site. I spent about half an hour listening to the history listen and then jumped back on the bus to the little gift shop and cafe.
I headed back to the bus. I was a bit disappointed with this tour because I had so many questions that weren't answered by the audio headset. But it was amazing to see this in the flesh. I jumped back on the bus and we headed back towards the city. They failed to mention that they don't drop you were you got picked up but about a 20 minute walk back. About 2 hours later when we all got dropped off at this point I stared at my map wondering how I was going to find my way back. I started talking to a couple from Texas and we started to walk back together.
It took roughly half an hour but I walked past Harrods, Harvey Nichols and did a bit of shopping. I then walked to Hyde Park. It was so beautiful and huge.
It took awhile to walkaround the park. There were people on paddle boats, swans, ducks, flowers and deck chairs. Deck Chairs I didn't realise that you have to hire them out.
They were also setting up a festival for the weekend. The guys setting up said I could have a sneak peek inside which was pretty cool.
I walked up to the main shopping strip and went to Primart. Primart was so cool and amazing cheap. Discounted clothes, make up, shoes and pj's (Boys and Girls clothes). There was nothing over 15-20pounds.
After Primart I walked about 30mins to the Sherlock Holmes Museum.
This was really cool. I then walked back to the hotel which took about 30mins. My body is so tired. I must be still jet lagged.
Tomorrow I'm off to Munich
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