Saturday, November 12, 2011

LONDON




After the success of the 'Missing Z Domination' campaign on Facebook and all related posts and comics, most of you knew that I was the winner of Zaatar w Zeit's competition, and the prize was a trip to London for 6 days + Hotel + Breakfast + Class A football game ticket!
First of all, a BIG thank you goes to Zaatar w Zeit for the beautiful prize and because everything was perfect there!

I can easily say that I went through all over London... Ok except China town.
From Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and London eye to London Bridge, Saint Paul's Cathedral and all around the amazing huge parks!
And since I was there on Halloween, I enjoyed the fully crowded streets of the Covent Garden, Oxford and Piccadilly circuses with all kind of scary/funny costumes, and I enjoyed the London Dungeon at it's best, plus a 5D laser ride!

And to make my visit perfect, I went to Stamford Bridge to watch the amazing Chelsea vs Arsenal game, that ended 5 - 3 (lucky me) for Arsenal unfortunately! (since I was a Blues fan back then... back to roots now ;) )

Enjoy the photos.

Welcome to Stamford Bridge
41,801 fans! Including me.
The breathtaking Saint Paul's Cathedral. 
No photos inside. Yeah right :P
And the protesters outside
Tower of London
London Bridge
Wellington Arch
Buckingham Palace (after the changing of the guards)
The Chimes of Big Ben at 12 o'clock.

The wonderful leaning Big Ben!
الحرية والعدالة لفلسطين - Next to Big Ben

London Eye :) with the Aquarium penguin
From up there!

Saint James' Park


Amy Winehouse.

Obama next to the president :P

El Führer with something stuck in his nose.
Bruce Willis. Amazing details.


Hyde Park



Kensington Palace gardens.



For landscape photographers, Hyde park and Saint James' park are the places to be, especially in autumn.

I got a small conclusion from this trip:

  • London is a very beautiful, clean and organized city, and people there were very nice and respectful (when I was there at least). And just to mention, England doesn't have any independence day and was never occupied.
  • Lebanon is a very beautiful, unclean and disorganized country, and people here are very arrogant and mean (for my last 25 years). And just to mention, Lebanon has many independence days, and was occupied by more then 5 countries.

If you find this conclusion logic, then good luck!

3 comments:

  1. @dddaniel @sissi Thank you for your comments :)
    Yep unfortunatly, this is the truth.
    @sissi, when I was writing the post, I wrote "(minimum)" next to the "5 countries" then I removed it! hehehe

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