I heard about Black Veil Brides's new UK tour in last summer. At first I thought that "yeaah it's pretty nice that they have a few shows there but naaah I'm not going, I'm gonna save some money" For what I asked myself and well, about a month later, before I even knew it I had concert and flight tickets and almost completely ready to go. Hostel I booked later on when I found the best one.
My journey started on Friday 03.10. I managed somehow to avoid the usual leaving stress and I wasn't as paranoid as I usually am when I'm leaving the country, didn't jump out of the car right before leaving and run back to my apartment to check for the hundredth of time that I surely haven't left my stove on or something. Mum picked me up at 2 am and waited with me for the buss at the station so I didn't have to wait outside in the cold. My buss to airport in Helsinki left at 3 am. I planned on sleeping there but quess who was afraid of sleeping too long and missing their stop? yeah, me, so I kept on waking up the whole time. Can't really call that sleeping. Around 5.15 we were in airport, I ate all the sandwiches and drank drank as much of the drinks I had with me as I could. I went through all the checks quite quickly. I can say that I hate the security check when you have to take off all the things you have in your pockets and take off your shoes and jacket and take the liquids and meds out of the bag and stuff. This time they checked my bag twice and I was almost freaked off and screaming in my mind that "I'M NOT A TERRORIST!!" but it turned out to be a nothing more than an empty lotion bottle that I have forgotten in my bag. :D So I got out of all the checks and went to find one of my friends who works in airport cafe. Sadly the cafe was so busy she didn't have too much time to talk but I grabbed a smoothie from there and just hang around in the airport until 7.40 when the boarding started.
We left at 08.10. Got some sleep finally in the flight and we were in London 09.40 or something. Grabbed my bag with me, found the Gatwick express, topped up my oystercard in Victoria Station (the line was straight from hell), took the underground to Pimlico and after some searching, found my hostel. There I waited for a few hours for the check in to open because I was too tired to go anywhere, they gave me free soft drinks and I thought there's no point going anywhere in there for an hour or so. But the check in time came, I stuffed all my things in my locker bc my suitcase didn't fit there, The receptionist looked a bit amused when I, at first check in, then come for the lock and then, for the third time, come for an adapter. NO, you can't get all the things at the same time. :D
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| Managed to actually look alive |
I got out of the hostel and went for shopping. I went to Forbidden forest the first and had hard time there choosing between an awesome TARDIS mug and a marvel mug. I usually get the marvel mug bc I collect those but since there was only ugly ones then, I decided to make an exception and buy a batman mug. Hells yeah it's awesome! Then my next target was tokyo toys. Yeah I know I'm a bit nerdy but I don't care. :D I got a pikatchu onesie from there which I fell in love with but at first I didn't know if it's a waste of money. Went away for a moment but I came back to get the onesie. Regret nothing! Also got some presents for my lovely goddaughter, best friend and little brother.
Around 6 pm I met my tumblr friend Sanne and we visited Hyde Park together. we just walked through and I can't even describe how big that was. Probably as big as my hometowns entire city centre and we only saw a little part of it. Wow. We visited primark after it and I went to disney shop after Sanne left (and brought Jack skellington mug which is my favourite now) and then left to my hostel.
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