Day 1 - Departure
Today, 14 March 2017, is one of those big days in my life. Together with my brother and two other friends, we're going in a 3 days trip in London. To be honest we haven't prepared too much for this. We had some plans that had to be changed yesterday (we found out that our friends that should have offer us accomodation are living 80 km away from the central zone of London and the only way to get to the center of the city was by the train which is really expensive; and so we had to find accomodation at some hotel), so things got a bit messy, but we stepped ahead with courage.
I spent the night in Timisoara, at a friend's house, then in the morning I and my brother went for some shopping.
We were so enthusiastic and felt the adventure already begun. From the shopping center we took the trolley, but I didn't check my ticket. Everything went fine and when we got off I saw the controller coming in. But it didn't matter anymore since I left the trolley, anyway that was close enough.
Getting to the airport wasn't lacking of fun. We changed the route, thinking that we may get there faster, but we found we were waiting in the wrong bus station. When we got to the right station we had to wait 30 more minutes because the buses were comming only once an hour.
Finally we arrived at the airport, entered the gate and we boarded. The flight was enjoyable, and we arrived in London at the Stansted Airport where someone picked us up. We went to eat (from Subway) and then we moved on to the hotel where we had the booking. It was about 10 p.m. in London. As we arrived at the hotel (which was more like a house) we knocked the door, but nobody has come. We called the owner 4 times, and each time he asked us to wait 10 minutes and he will give us the room. As we waited about 40 minutes and he didn't come, we decided to leave and find another hotel, because this one looked like a scam. But he texted me right before to leave and gave me a 4 digits code to open a black box where the key from the house was secretly hidden and told us to enter the room number one. As we entered the room it was surprising that the room had 3 double beds and a sofa, but we ordered a room for three people. That was totally strange: entering someone's house by yourself. As we found there were also other creepy guys that had accommodation. The light at the bathroom was not working... It was pretty scary, luckily we had the key from our room, to lock it over night. However, we were tired enough so we just entered the room and in few minutes everyone was sleeping.