Hop on and Hop off

 Monday 29^th May

 

We got up an okay time and headed down to the restaurant for breakfast. The breakfast was a buffet and pretty amazing. Only issue was, is that it was half term therefore, extremely busy. I had enough to eat and my mum and the rest of my family all had English Breakfasts.

 

We left the hotel and walked to the nearest ‘hop on, hop off’ bus stop’. We paid for our tickets and got onboard. The cycling competition end yesterday – thankfully – therefore, all roads were open. We saw all of London’s main attractions apart from the front of Buckingham palace … which I thought was odd. My dad said that the commentary was really interesting however, I hate having ear phones in my ears.

 

There were two bus routes for the London tour. We did half of the main route before transferring to the smaller ‘loop’ route which went around Knightsbridge. Once that was over, we all decided to go for a small walk-through Hyde Park. I really liked this as I got to jump around a lot. Once done we got back on the bus and finished our tour. Now, this doesn’t sound a lot however, we had started at 10am and it was almost 2pm now.

 

We got off the bus at Covent Garden. My grandparents wanted to get a load of souvenirs and what better place than Covent Garden. Mum and dad bought their traditional Ben’s cookies. Though Covent Garden provided us with hot dogs for lunch and on-street entertainment, there were not as many souvenirs for sale as both grandma and grandad would have liked. We therefore walked to Leicester square where uncle and I sat down on the grass while grandma, grandad and mum went off shopping. Dad went to McDonald’s for a drink.

 

Once done people were tired, we therefore got on the last ‘hop-on, hop-off’ bus for the day, and headed back to our hotel. Once there we booked a table for dinner and went to our rooms to relax for a little while.

 

Dinner was just as delicious as yesterday. It was a little sad as this was our last meal together; tomorrow grandad, grandma and uncle would be flying back to Japan and we would be coming back to Derby. Everyone agreed that the holiday had been amazing. The weather could not have been better and my Japanese family wondered if it ever rained in the UK.

 

Once food was eaten, we all went to bed for our final night of the holiday. I was a little sad therefore, I decided not to annoy mum and dad too much.

 

Toodle Pip!