Sixth day

Like every morning we started the day going to Acton Town and then visiting a museum, that day: The Science Museum! The museum is a major London tourist attraction, attracting 2.7 million visitors annually.

The Science Museum is made up of a number of galleries, some of which are permanent, and some of which are temporary. Power: The East Hall, Exploring Space, Making the Modern World, Fligh, Launchpad…In general we loved  the Exploring Space, because it has rockets, satellits and different NASA's objects.

When we finished visiting it, we went to Harrods: Harrods is London's most famous department store. This luxury store is on many tourists' itineraries, who come to admire the magnificent interior and enormous selection. They often leave the store with a signature green bag; foreign visitors account for a significant part of the store's sales. The Queen of England often buys her clothes there but in our opinion, it was so so big and beautiful, full of luxury but so terribly EXPENSIVE… so we only stayed for a little time and then some of us went to Wembley and some others to Notting hill.

New Wembley, is a football stadium located in Wembley Park, in the Borough of Brent, in London. It opened in 2007 and was built on the site of the previous 1923 Wembley Stadium. The earlier Wembley stadium, originally called the Empire Stadium, was often referred to as “The Twin Towers” and was one of the world's most famous football stadiums until its demolition in 2003. London's Wembley Stadium hosts England's home matches, live music concerts and other sporting events.

The first match at the stadium was a game played behind closed doors between Multiplex and Wembley Stadium staff.

Our impression of the stadium was good and nice because we think that it's enormous and beautiful, the guide told us that it's the place with more bathrooms in the world. We also saw one changing room where we could see the T-shirts of some Barça's players!

The Bobby Moore Sculpture stands outside the stadium entrance, looking down Wembley Way

Some of us went to Notting Hill, a cosmopolitan district known as the location for the annual Notting Hill Carnival, and for being home to the Portobello Road Market. Now it has a contemporary reputation as an affluent and fashionable area. A very famous film called Notting Hill was filmed there. In this film appear Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.

We think that it’s a nice district of London because the coloured houses are really original. We were very happy for being able to take a photo next to the famous blue door that appears in the film.

Seventh day

Our seventh day in London was one of the best ones for us. This day we visited Camden market, Sherlock Holmes’ museum and Madame Tussauds.
We woke up a little bit sad because we knew that we were only going to stay in London one more day…but the teachers cheered us up by starting with a shopping day!
First we went to Camden market, it is a market that is formed by a number of adjoining large retail markets in Camden Town. It is the fourth-most popular visitor attraction in London, attracting approximately 100,000 people each weekend.

The markets originally operated on Sundays only, which continues to be the main trading day. Opening later extended to Saturdays for most of the market. A number of traders, mainly those in fixed premises, operate throughout the week, although the weekend remains the peak period.
We enjoyed ourselves a lot in Camden because we could buy a lot of clothes, food, accessories…at a very good price so we bought a lot. We also had lunch there and then; we took the underground to go to the Sherlock Holmes’ museum.
Sherlock Holmes museum is a bit small but there are a lot of things and it’s really curious because there are lots of objects used by detectives.
Near the Sherlock Holmes museum there is the Madame Tussauds. Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as "Madame Tussaud's". Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and infamous murderers.
We were so excited because we knew that this museum is very important, funny and that our idols were there in wax sculptures.

This day we arrived at our ‘new house’ a bit late and tired because that week in London was being very busy and full of activities and excitement. We slept very well but really sad because we didn’t want to come back to Badalona.

Eighth day

The eighth day...the last day...In the morning we packed our luggage and then we said goodbye to our host families. We were very sad because during that week we could learn a lot about the London culture, their way of  life  and we could really improve our English.  We really got attached to our English families and we were very sad that morning. We thanked them, said goodbye to them and we took a coach to Windsor Palace, our last visit in London.
The day was cold and it was snowing so we couldn’t see the palace of Windsor. We spent all the morning in the nice little village of Windsor, we had lunch and then with another coach we went to the airport and we said goodbye to London…

In the plane everybody was sleeping because we were very tired, too tired to notice there were some turbulences. But we left knowing that we had learnt a lot and that we had a family forever that would host us any other time we want to go back to London. We hope that one day we could come back to London and could see these fantastic views.