Aw, great day!
I love airports when you arrive in them! I was walking on air once I got off the plane, loving that feeling of heading out into an unknown city waiting to be discovered, enjoying the internationality that is present in large airports and a sense of being all grown up. Then my feelings of being grown up being happily revised as I tripped over nothing on the airport carpet and looked a fool. Hahaha!
Then on the train from Gatwick into the centre – I pure loved seeing my first ever real-life trainspotter!!! There he was with his huge wide angle lens camera and geeky clothes. Priceless.
I had a few hours before meeting my sisters and so decided I’d go to the Tate Modern art gallery. In my mind, I figured out that I wanted to go in so much that I’d pay up to £20 to do so. When I arrived (after successfully finding my way around the tube network and munching a chicken, bacon and avocado baguette alongside the Thames) I discovered most of the stuff was free to see!! And the stuff that you had to pay for wasn’t as exciting as the free stuff anyway!
I love Modern Art. Not because its wonderful, but because it can be soooo blinking ridiculous! There was this moment where I happened to make eye contact with another bemused visitor and it felt like we connected over a sense of “This is art?! I could do that”. Though some of it actually was really, really cool particularly the scale on which a lot of it is done. I just loved looking at it all!
THEN, I discovered I could get a boat down the Thames for super cheap because it was part of the transport network rather than a cruise-y tourist thing. Thus my first glimpse of the London Eye was from the water as the sun descended toward the horizon. Beautiful.
It wasn’t a perfect day for several reasons, but there were many, many exciting things about it! Not least an awesome meal in a Turkish restaurant. Nice.
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