Shifted to New Home

Today on 31st August 2014,  I shifted to my new home from the hotel. The new home is in Wembley.  It is a 1 bedroom apartment with separate kitchen and bathroom. It is a very clean and spacious flat. The rent is 750 pounds per week and we paid 750 pounds deposit also. We also purchased pillow bedsheets and quilts etc. Now I am enjoying in  my new home.. :)

Trip to London Eye and Big Ben

Yesterday on 24th August,  I went to see the most famous infrastructure in London,  the London eye and Big Ben.

I took a tube from hammer Smith to Westminster,  the place where London eye and Big Ben is situated.  It took me around half an hour to reach there. It was completely underground route.

After half an hour journey,  I reached Westminster station.  The first structure I saw after coming out of station was Big Ben.  I was like wow... Finally I saw something which I have always saw on Internet or my dreams :)

Near to Big Ben is the London eye, on the bank of river thames.  The cruises on the river and crowd on the bridge, the view was just awesome.

After 10 minutes of walk,  I reached near London eye. The queue for ticket was too long. So I preferred to roam around.  There were several musicians performing nearby. It was a really nice experience.

At the same place I saw a board saying experience london eye in 4D.
I was really excited to see it so I went inside.  They gave a 3d goggle. We reached in a dark room with big white screen.

After a wait of 2 minutes,  the show started. It was a 3d view of London eye. The experience was just awesome.  They showed the aerial view of london eye along with some fireworks and bird's eye view from it. Watching it ib 3d was just amazing. Along with that they enlightened the hall with the lights in sync with the 3d movie making it a real 4D experience. The show was of around 4 minutes and it was just awesome. And this complete show was absolutely free.

Initial Days in London

So sienna is located in hammer Smith area. I went outside to have a look around. It was a great area. I had some burgers in mc Donalds.

I have purchased a local sim card.
There was a metro station near by . I have purchase the Oyster travel card. Oyster is a travel card which can be used to travel in metro or bus across london.

I have started searching for rooms.  All the rooms are very small and very expensive.  They call it box rooms. It is very small room with just one bed. I was really disappointed seeing such rooms. There were several good rooms but they were very far from office.  location.

Finally after long research,  I got a good room in Wembley area. It was a nice double room with double bed, cupboards,  wifi and all other facilities.

Finally Traveling to London

After a long wait of more than two months,  finally on 14 th of August 2014, I have got news that I have to travel to london tomorrow I.e on 15th August. It was such a short notice but I was ready. I have started with my formalities,  got tickets and hotels bookes.

My flight was from Mumbai Airport at 7 am in the morning. It was a gulf air flight with 2 hour halt at Bahrain airport.

I left from pune at around 9 pm. It was a mixed feeling leaving a place where you lived so long for so long time.

I reached mumbai Airport at 12.30 am. It was 15th August and mumbau airport was colored in the color of flag. It was looking awesome.

It was still 4-5 hours to go before boarding will start for my flight.  I was wandering around the airport looking the new beautiful mumbai international airport.

At around 4.30 am, check in was started. I have done web check in so I dont have to stand in long queue. I have to just get the luggage checked it. I proceeded with check in. I got my boarding pass. But suddenly some thing happened that I never wanted to happen. They weighed my bag and it was around 5-6 kg more than allowed limit. I asked them to adjust it but they were very strict. They just said either throw away the excess weight or pay around 15 thousand rupees. I was really disappointed.  I was in mumbai and pune was very far. Also there was no one in mumbai whom I can give excess weight.  Finally I decided to pay 15 thousand rupees. After that they checked in my luggage.

At 7 in the morning,  I left for Bahrain airport.  It was airbus A320 flight.  After travel of 2 and half hours I reached Bahrain airport.

Bahrain is a small country in gulf.  The airport was small but very beautiful. I had some coffee there and then started waiting for my next flight.

After 2 hours boarding started for my next flight. After a total travel time of 7 and half hours, I reached Heathrow Airport on 15th August 2014 at 7 pm Indian time. At London,  it was around 3.30 pm.

London airport is just awesome. Really stunning. 

A cab was booked to drop me from airport to my hotel, so sienna.
After half an hour of drive, I reached so sienna. It was a nice studio apartment with all basic facilities.