Finally in London! United Kingdom trip

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9 August 2004
departure from Brindisi with the flight RYANAIR. Arriving around 21:35 to Stansted, a village about 60 km from London. Overnight at the airport.
August 10, 2004
Good hours of departure by coach National Express Londra.Il route is interesting, although it is the streets early and rain and let cool (with the difference that hot Italy) teeming with cars, motorcycles and trucks all lined up and friendly to every rule, the landscape is the typical English: meadow green, terraced houses ... At each stop the driver will announce the plaintive tone, video remember the safety rules and reminded to return their luggage.
Go to Victoria Station, a place in the wild in full of all sorts of types, written in various languages to invite to beware pickpockets, in a moment the decision is taken: we must reach the hotel by taxi! Addition rains and a type to information desk of the station says that the fare is around £ 9.
The taxi is typically booked London: black and a little 'odd, we arrive at in Prince's Square for £ 9.40.
The construction of the Kensington Court Hotel is a Victorian semidetached, with white scales from the low and narrow stairs and bathrooms above. Kensington Park.Usciamo visit the park and we set forth upon the center of many shops and exchange offices at the French Bureau of change.Giungiamo at the Science Museum in front of the Victoria and Albert and Natural History to the next but we are tired and it is already late ( almost 18) and then leave HOPING to return, the entrance is free as in almost all museums in London
August 11 we reach in the metropolitan area of Marble Arch (now photographing everything photographable) to look at the newspapers in Italy (there are around Repubblica, Corriere della sera and Enigmistica Week) and for drinking. Emerge at Marble Arch and having made friends with the royal pidgeons come to Oxford Street, chock full of shops of all kinds, with a good clothes and merchandise at prices different ranges.
Time is discrete even if a few drops had been paid into Admiralty Arch, the feet are now full of bubbles, but we do not continue the case and tireless. Near Piccadilly is a tourist office besieged by Italian and I do incetta of leaflets, in addition to those already taken away and places visited.
Arrive in Trafalgar Square with marble lions attacked bambinetti from each nation, there are also the National Gallery (also has free entry) but you can not see everything in life!
Around Whitehall (home of the Ministry of Interior) an old woman from our curious attention to the map shows us the way to get the most characteristic monuments of the city.
Between 15:45 and 16 stop in to see the return of the horses (there are many curious to witness the ceremony and it is so fragrant and the ... done by those left!).
The government buildings are impressive as is the whole city, London is certainly a city spectacular, majestic and magnificent, as its price! The private cars are few and those that are seen are mostly four-star superior while taxis branded autochthonous cross the center far and wide bus followed by a picturesque two piani.Downing street is a bluff, a gate prevents ordinary mortals to arrive while the police is present in high deployment of forces; also an Italian anarchist complains loudly his disappointment on the first English minister who arrives in the short as a lightning bolt on self decree accompanied by a procession of other cars .
We see the famous Scotland Yard and Parliament with Big ben that scans every 15 minutes time with his family tolling adopted by many pendulums everywhere.
Under the parliament of peace activists protesting with sit-in against Blair while waving flags per 2012 Olympics.
August 12: for breakfast we are always among the last, but we like to get some 'convenient and watch TV in the morning even if the programs are abominevoli.Prendiamo 52 to go to Russell square seat of the British museum.
In contrast coach with a typical old English from which I learn that Londoners do not have the habit of moving for the holidays, unlike other Europeans.
Outside the imposing structure of a British itinerant sells hot dogs and cocacola.Finalmente enter the British, and first of all we admire the Rosetta stone was found by a French soldier in Egypt.
Everything is great, majestic, do not know where to look (and where to photograph)!
Visitors come from everywhere: Italy, France, Japan.
The Parthenon is nearly everything there and there are also finds from Italy dating from the ancient civilizations that lived in our region. There are also sections on Africa, to the discoveries found in the eighteenth century, there are antique watches dating back to the Cinquecento.Proseguiamo for Blackfriars Bridge, where he was found the body of Roberto Calvi in 1982 and from far away you notice the legendary London Bridge.
August 13. we head to the National History Museum The path that leads us to the museum takes us on a Notting Hill neighborhood with elegant antique shops and antique shops.
The Natural History Museum is majestic and requires careful support in all its sectors, plus the lights rise to excess heat, and this creates a 'nuisance.
As in any other place visited many children are of every race and color
August 14: Portobello Road.
The area is crowded with people of all kinds, there are as usual many Italians.
The stuff is great to watch: junk, antiques, there is also a good butcher and many Italian restaurants.
August 15: We arrive in Bari Palese at 10.50 with ten minutes early, twenty if we consider the parties to be approximately 7:20.