In the summer of 2004, my Nan and Grandad took me and my older sister, Sophie, to London for a few days. We travelled by car on the Friday evening and unfortunately got stuck in a huge amount of traffic, the journey took 5 hours in total! When we arrived at the hotel, which was situated on the outskirts of London, we went straight to bed as we were completely exhausted after the journey.
We woke up bright and early the next day as we had a lot of things planned. We had to get the tube into the centre of London; this was more stressful then we thought it would have been as we did not know our way around. Unfortunately, this lead to my Grandad getting his head shut in the train doors when he realised we had got on the wrong one, which was very funny for us, but seemed to make him quite angry. When we finally we got into the centre of London, I was surprised at how chaotic London was compared to Bristol. Our day consisted of visiting Madame Tussauds, where we posed for hours with our favourite celebrities, going to see Fame at the hippodrome and finally having dinner at the rainforest café. The day was full of great experiences which I will never forget.
The next day was just as busy, we spent most of the day exploring the sights of London. London seemed like such a huge place to me, so I was surprised at how quick and easy it was to jump on the tube and get to another famous site. We watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, then we got on what I thought was a normal bus, but was actually a bus/boat. I didn't appreciate only finding out it was a boat when we were actually heading towards the water; I just assumed we were crashing and excepted my death. This was also an amazing experience and I loved every second of it. The day was fantastic but very tiring, so I was very happy when we finally got back to the hotel and into bed.
Our final day was a lot more calm and we only had one thing planned; going to see Hairspray in the hippodrome. The show was fantastic and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed a musical, as the last experience I had was when my mum took me to see 'Cats' and I almost died of boredom.
Visiting London was one of my favourite memories and even though I have already seen the sights I wanted to see, I would love to visit London and do experience it all again.
You express yourself very clearly and give a very good overview of your trip. How could you alter the style to make it fit a more particular genre? Perhaps a piece for a travel magazine, in which case you might have to use more sophisticated language features. Great effort though so well done.
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