My Arrival To London England -Visiting Big Ben & Walking Around Piccadilly Circus / Underground Tube
London England Jan 2024
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today's adventure
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begins as the recording of this Tuesday
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January 21st
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2025 I am in route to London England
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this has been a Redeye flight throughout
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the evening
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losing a few
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hours heading Eastward by time I get to
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London it'll be around
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noon
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time C fast in preparation for landing
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uh as we're beginning our descent we're
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hopefully going to be done with the
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bumps uh but we are showing a couple
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areas where it might pick up a little
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bit so just make sure you see about
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security right
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around
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44 42° F it's been a pleasure having you
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aboard thanks plan Delta we to
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appreciate business hope this see you in
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the future play Test please the cab for
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R is very cloudy down there
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the
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C for
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ladies and gentlemen welcome to London
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there has been a 5H hour time change the
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local time is 12:38 p.m. please remain
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seated with your seat belts fast
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gentlemen from Flight Deck welcome to
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London eough uh we're going to be shot
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or excuse me we're going to be stopping
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just short of our gate uh there's
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currently an aircraft pushing they're
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pushing uh at this moment so it should
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be just a few moments please remain
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seated with your seat bels securly fast
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until the seat Bel sign has been turned
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off thank
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you all right successfully made it and I
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got myself another Delta card my A330
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card don't have this one
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yet I asked one of the pilots and they
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gave it to
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me the day
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begins lost 5
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hours slept about
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two so I'll be definitely running on
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some caffeine today all right I'm here
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got to go through p report control
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customs and then onward
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travel first thing I'm noticing they
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don't call them restrooms or bathrooms
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here they call them what they really
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are
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toilets I like that 7:55 a.m. Florida
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time now I'm going to take my phone off
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airplane mode took a couple minutes for
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the international data plan to kick in 3
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minutes to be exact it's now 12:58 those
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5 hours push forward instantly off
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airplane mode 2 minutes shy of 1 p.m.
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here in London
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I waited a little bit to get off the
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plank as I had to wait for the pilot to
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get me the
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card but this is kind of eerie there's
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like everybody else is like way in front
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of me have all these corridors to
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UK it's very simple not only it to show
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your path sport but recently I think
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within the last few weeks you have to
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get something called an ETA electronic
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travel
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authorization you have to get that as
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well as your passport but it was very
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very very quick going through there and
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everyone here is super nice so far I
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think I'm going to exchange some
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currency right here I brought some cash
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I'm going to exchange it here at the
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airport I'm sure the exchange rate's a
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little different if you were to get it
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somewhere else but a $400 US Cash
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transferred over 260 quid which is also
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260 lb so this is a few of them I got
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the rest of them in my in my wallet but
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there's a 20 lb or 20 quid I'm guessing
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that's the same I asked and the lady
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said it was basically the same thing
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said just call them
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pounds so I put the rest on my wallet
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but I just wanted to show these so
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that's the exchange rate at least here
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at the airport and I also asked if they
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do take American money here and they'll
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give me change back in pounds and she
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said most likely not just passed through
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custom so the passport first
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and then through border and then also
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through custom I went through the room
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and there was a couple officers in the
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room they didn't check anything they
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just waved and I just walked through
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that was
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it nothing to it I am not at Epcot World
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Showcase right
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now oh my gosh yes yes Hotel I'm going
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to be staying at is walking distance to
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Picadilly circus which is kind of like
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their Time Square from what I'm hearing
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and one of the officers said that there
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is a train that'll take me really close
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to there so I think that's going to be
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my option I'm going doing a lot of
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trains while I'm here public trains that
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I heard is pretty good you can also get
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a SIM card for your
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phone I use AT&T they have an
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international plan that I just been
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using that I might switch at some point
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but I'm not really sure how SIM cards
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used but my phone seems to be working
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just fine connecting it to the
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international plan through AT&T that's
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who I use London the fastest way to the
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central London is the Heathrow
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Express I asked someone else they said
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i' to go
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underground Express train to Central
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London
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all right the underground is I guess
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that's the
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word for their subway system here we go
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underground Picadilly line to Central
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London that's where I got to go right
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there these are
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interesting look at these
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little guess I'm going the right way all
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right I'm going to scan through um on an
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elevator trains to four and
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five and London London okay just
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repeating what I just
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saide stand back from the platform this
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is awesome okay this must be
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the next station is H slow East please
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mind the gap between the train and the
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platform definitely a lot of stops on
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this route a light here for never seen
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this is a carpeted seats on a subway
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before carpeted
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the next station is pad ccus
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change carpeted rails against the side
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too it's carpet
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Subway
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experience the London subway
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experience lot of places here this say
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free cash withdrawals free to use I'm
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going to pull some cash out of these
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ATMs
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here getting off the north side
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Picadilly right there north
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side and up to ground level
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now welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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it is
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official took a
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plane took a train
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and now I'm up on the
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upper upper
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level I'm in London inviting you to join
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me it's good to have you here let's see
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where the da leads I'm going to check
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into my hotel and then just roam around
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join me shall you all right got a
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fountain here with the
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horses right there and take a look at
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this there is a phone booth red Phone
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Booth okay hotel has been checked
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into quite a few taxis rolling through
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town and a
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beacon for me right over here is this
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little coffee shop I need a cup of joe
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not the largest coffee I've ever had but
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a coffee
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nonetheless best
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blend in the West
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End okay I think my first stop is going
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to be to walk over and see Big Ben I
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have the little sculpture here A bird
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just flew by Henry Irving actor another
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bird just flew by BN at
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nice it's an interesting
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little whatever that
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is really beautiful little Court
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Courtyard right here big lions
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sculptures
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there only gave you like 3 seconds to
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walk across here that's quick was
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expecting it to go that fast
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there is the London Eye which I will be
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going on this
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evening I've been on the Orlando Eye
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I've been
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on a similar version in
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Vegas I've always wanted to go on the
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London Eye so I'm going to go on it
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oh my goodness there it
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is fing big bin right
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there there's the
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square quite
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grisan I'm going to walk down the way
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just a little bit and find the exact
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roundabout wasn't that one I believe
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it's down this way another half half a
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Parliament a lot of the buildings have
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changed you know since
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the80s and the roundabout is under a
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little construction there it is that's
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the roundabout right
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there and since then they put a lot of
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different lights so Clark Griswald would
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not be stuck trying to get
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left right here on the threshold of the
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Lamb Beth Palace road
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bridge look kids big Benin Parliament
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this phone booth has a lot of stickers
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on it at all the stickers on that
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thing oh it sounds like the bells sounds
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like the bells over there are
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ringing right here on the tames river t
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h m e I believe t h m s tames River
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sorry that was my bad accidentally hung
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off on you yeah it does make a
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difference
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by there it is all lit
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up first of all right London Eye second
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of all it's
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just it's pretty dang cool that's big
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then right there behind the little
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gundas but big
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gondal nice little
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backdrop get a bir's eye
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perspective like you're loading into a
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space pod or some sort of like
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underwater breathing apparatus if you're
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not going underwat you're going up into
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the sky this one is the first one I've
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seen that goes that you load above the
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water the water right there from the CHS
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is like right below pods it's the first
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one I've been on where you load right
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above where the river a river
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is like how it's all lit up peek
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and as well
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something's bizarre so it went to the
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top then instead of circling around like
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it should continue going now it went
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back it's going back down the way I went
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up and then it stopped then we went back
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to the
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top and then now back down to this point
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and now it stopped
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again
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yeah something is
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wacky been kind of in the same spot for
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about 15 minutes went up there came back
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down here went back up there and now
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came back down here something is wrong
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with this
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thing I just don't think I think it's
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having an issue getting up over
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hump here so it's gone up gone down gone
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up gone
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down like we have probably been in the
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same area for about a half hour it's
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moving again getting up to the top get
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over the
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hump look kids Big
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Ben you got this eye you got this London
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Eye don't stop keep going do not want to
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get stuck up here my first night in
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London that was
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weird that was really weird thankfully
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moving downward should be getting off
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this thing soon ready to get off this
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thing I don't know why
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all right I got myself a little souvenir
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to document that
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experience little magnet here now I do
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not know for certain cuz I really know
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nothing about London but over at
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Buckingham Palace they have the guards
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that stand there during the day I'm
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curious if they are out at night so I'm
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going to walk over the bridge see if
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they're out at night Bridge looks pretty
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cool illuminated did a
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green underneath the little tunnel
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areas also over here there is a like a
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spotlight going across the
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tames and it's Illuminating up on the
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side of this building
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here not sure why though right this is
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unbelievable come all the way to London
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and Mickey here you go
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Mickey that's for
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you all the way to London to meet see
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Mickey Mouse here on the ches
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river to see you
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Mickey is that what you do here do the
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what does that mean it's not peace is it
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peace peace sign all right Mickey have a
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good
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one okay I just uh gave gave away my
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first uh five 5
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lbs everything else has been credit card
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only L not a lot of places take cash
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also this attraction I got on something
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called the London pass and for the
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entire tenure of my stay here over the
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next series of days I ended up getting a
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London pass paid one price and I can go
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on like 90 different uh admission things
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around London so pretty good deal I
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think it was like $300 American do and
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you get like you can pretty much do
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anything that has an admission in London
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you can get into it so I thought that
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was a pretty good deal it's a couple
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minutes before 6:00 p.m. granted there
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is that 5H hour time difference but I
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really didn't sleep last night on the
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plane I thought I was going to get a
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little more sleep than I did I got about
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2 hours so definitely a little on the
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little on the Sleepy side but going to
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try to stay up
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and start the day off tomorrow on nor on
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time jet lag will be kind of weird for a
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couple days but there's a look at all
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these bicycles here these all Ral bikes
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that
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are just uh scurrying along through
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here yeah bike uh biking through here is
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a is a real
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he waiting for Peter Pan to fly
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by especially from this
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angle it's what it reminds me of this
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this shot right
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hours all right approaching Buckingham
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Palace right over there it's amazing how
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many people are out riding bikes jogging
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running in the cold temperatures people
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are very very active here seen so many
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people out running
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um all right all I'm seeing is just
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regular regular guards out front they're
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not in there traditional style uniforms
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maybe they aren't out a night or maybe
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I'm in the wrong spot spot and it's a
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different area of Buckingham maybe it's
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not this front
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section again I don't know okay here's
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where they usually are I saw some photos
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of them during the day they're usually
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right here standing in those boxes to
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either side of this Archway but
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evidently probably too
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cold or they're not out at night there
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is something twinkling down there though
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any feel like I need to grab a bite to
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eat somewhere too before heading back to
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my
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hotel all right nice little reveal up
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these stairs here
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beautiful
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wow look at
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this it is so beautiful walking around
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here at night really
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I love the
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taxis I love
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them this is what they look like
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inside this is what the payones are like
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right here
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but all of the payones are
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in these type of red telephon
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boers and to be honest until now I've
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only seen them on you know TV shows
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movies and at Epcot World
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Showcase you know I've been to a lot of
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places where they have English
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pubs themed pubs that look like English
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pubs but right around here you have the
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real deal English pub in England
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everybody outside
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drinking getting their boozing on this
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place is named after a boxer named Tom
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crib it's also the double yellow lines
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was even a yellow piece there was double
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yellow lines that go parallel even
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zigzags there next to the
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curb both
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sides I think I'm to get some fish and
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chips somewhere if I can find some
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fishing chips I love this Mary Poppins
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she's got her bag there she's got her
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umbrella yeah you think of the UK and
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England think of Mary
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Poppins that's nice and that's looking
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back the other way from Mary poppin
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looking back towards Picadilly circus
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architecture especially with the lights
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Illuminating on them just looks so
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awesome there's a Burger King up
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here there's even a Jolie bee over there
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Jolie bee and a
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BK in a casino and a Pizza Hut says come
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on into your Hut there's also a Pizza
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Hut slice window right there I looked at
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two fish and chip places and both both
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places I walk to couldn't find them over
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here in Chinatown now look at this
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this theater here is playing the
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Room San Francisco
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film I kind of figured that there would
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be a fish and chip place on every every
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5T
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but I haven't really seen too many the
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assortment of all the different flags
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right up here over here in Picadilly
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also has the little spiky things on top
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of them so birds Don't Roost on top of
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the FL flag designs I've heard good
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things about this place pret a Manger or
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pret a Manger try it I didn't get fish
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and chips but I did get freshly made
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food they also have coffee I have to try
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their coffee at some point but I got an
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assortment of different things a
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gingerbread thing it's a salad a
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sandwich pret a Manger pret a
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Manger show what I got when I get the
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room back in the room now I also brought
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my UK adapter charge my laptop there
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so this here
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is what the UK adapter looks like in
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comparison
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to US plug then you plug in that right
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there and then to plug my cell phone and
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other things in I have this other one
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which also has the UK adapter as well
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plugged into the wall and the cell phone
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down this wire all right so I got a
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sandwich got the
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salad got this little gingerbread cookie
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little SE
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salt and this is a
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tuna mayo and then
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this not even sure what's all on here
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tuna tuna salad with some other stuff in
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there
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so M go passion fruit and lime to drink
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too part of their brand as well and
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that's going to do it for today flight
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day London Day walking around day
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exploring
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day new card day I'll see you in the
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next video I'm in London I'm in England
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for a little while the Vlog is over