London 2012: Hanging out in London (Jonathan, Germany)

At the end of our three-day stay in the context of the Comenius meeting, we had a free day at our disposal to see something of the city itself.

At the start of it, we went to Hyde Park, which was close to our hotel, to sit there, wait for the rain and enjoy a few minutes of an unexpected holiday feeling.

When we took the tube to go to Buckingham Palace, we made sure to make a detour to King’s Cross Station to see Platform 9 ¾ (famous because of the “Harry Potter” series, and took some (non-magical) good photos like this:

Another rather funny stop we made was a not well-known landmark:

There is a tube station that is called "Sloane Square".

On account of Ms. Sloane, getting off there was a must and we took this photo:

In the end, we followed our original destination, which was to get to Buckingham Palace.

Ms. Waltz took full responsibility about leading us there, until she suddenly stopped and complained about no one noticing that we had walked in the wrong direction for full thirty minutes! Fortunately, there was a bus stop close by. We ran to catch an approaching bus, which we boarded after a few friendly words had been exchanged with the driver.

How stressful!

However, we did make it to Buckingham Palace after all:

Afterwards, we had some time to ourselves. My group went to Big Ben, The London Eye, Tower Bridge and Westminster Abbey. We saw monuments, statues, monuments, statues – there simply is no end of sights! That’s hanging out in London for you!

But, what's that???

At the close of the day, our delegation had dinner in an Italian restaurant at Leicester Square, where I noticed Ms. Waltz having obviously problems writing a message to the Spanish delegation on her mobile…

I kept smiling and couldn’t resist sending secretly her a text message myself...