{"id":1243,"date":"2009-04-11T04:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2009-04-11T04:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T11:54:53","slug":"thoughts-during-my-first-hours-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/thoughts-during-my-first-hours-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts during my first hours in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally taken a week off from work, and I decided to go to one of the must-visit cities on my list while my wife does her Indian journey with her sister. I&#8217;m in London, and I must say I&#8217;m not that thrilled yet (I haven&#8217;t seen anything so far), maybe it&#8217;s cause I&#8217;m alone, maybe it&#8217;s the weather, maybe I&#8217;m tired, or maybe I&#8217;m too cheap for the freaking prices so far in this city. Here are some of the thoughts I&#8217;ve had so far during the trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Airlines for the first time had really good food during the flight. Also the movies on demand rocked, I could watch Valkyrie and Yes Man.<\/li>\n<li>As we started to descend I realized I would not see the sun again during the whole vacation. Anywhere from 10,000 meters to like 100mts from the ground there were layers and layeres of clouds and fog.<\/li>\n<li>Subway cars are tiny<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/3431500170\/\" title=\"DSC00041 by Gubatron, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3572\/3431500170_a0771d13b6.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSC00041\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The subway system is a piece of cake<\/li>\n<li>Every thing is twice as expensive as in New York, and it pisses me off<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a never ending drizzle<\/li>\n<li>At first I thought the whole place would sound like I was in a harry potter movie, so far I&#8217;ve only heard Polish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and very little English with British Accent<\/li>\n<li>Everything reminds me of my wife, traveling with her is 10 times more fun than traveling alone<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s been only a few hours, hopefully I&#8217;ll get used in a couple of days on how crossing the street works, even though there&#8217;s signs in most places &#8220;Look right!&#8221; &#8220;Look Left&#8221;, I still have to think hard to figure out where cars are coming from on some streets. It&#8217;s all so crazy, they should switch.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/3431500970\/\" title=\"DSC00043 by Gubatron, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3549\/3431500970_c82382d425.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSC00043\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>I forgot my power adapter<\/li>\n<li>Everything is too expensive, 20 pounds for the internet connection on the hotel is not good at all, that&#8217;s like $30 usd. In 2 days I&#8217;d pay my monthly ISP with that amount of money back home<\/li>\n<li>I still think the US is the best fucking country in the world, no matter how much people hate it, I find everything in america so convenient it&#8217;s hard to change it for any other country, at least for me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<br \/>\n<\/strong>In the afternoon after I walked more then I got more excited after I went to a few landmarks like the London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Picadilli Circus (below). I finally got some sleep, but I still feel that I&#8217;ve some jetlag on me, so I&#8217;ll take more of this sunday to sleep it off, that&#8217;s what vacation is for, resting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/3432593526\/\" title=\"Me at Picadilli Circus by Gubatron, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3650\/3432593526_0e09e8ba59.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Me at Picadilli Circus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conclusion of the first day, most things in this country are backwards. I&#8217;ll try to make a list of them, it&#8217;s not only the driving. The bread toaster this morning was backwards, you&#8217;d get the bread down by pulling a lever up&#8230; wtf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally taken a week off from work, and I decided to go to one of the must-visit cities on my list while my wife does her Indian journey with her sister. I&#8217;m in London, and I must say I&#8217;m not that thrilled yet (I haven&#8217;t seen anything so far), maybe it&#8217;s cause I&#8217;m alone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,18,19,30,59],"tags":[629,990,1018],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-de-paseo","category-diary","category-geeklife","category-opinions","tag-london","tag-thoughts","tag-trip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-k3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1256,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/things-i-found-to-be-different-in-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":1243,"position":0},"title":"Things I found to be different in London","author":"gubatron","date":"April 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I had the opportunity to break away from work for a week and visit one of the most important cities on my I-Have-To-Go-Here list, London. 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