Moving on from Ghana - London

So not in Ghana any longer but will continue to write until I am actually back home. So for my two weeks in Europe which were great after coming from Africa to get back to some more normality I'll split the writing up into places.

First was a day and night in Germany, staying with a friend of mine who was in Ghana and come back to Germany about 4 months ago. I bought her some plaintain chips as a memory and some quality Nigerian movies she could reminise on.

But I was only staying here at this point for a night before moving onto London, and time was occupied with food really, lunch from a bakery with so much nice bread to choose from, together with some camembert, amazing!

But then off to London early morning the next day to try and visit the city more properly than I had before and to stay with Wayne and Emily.

London was pretty much as I remember, packed to the brim with tourists and huge amounts of people everywhere. Also wasn't prepared for the massive amount of chain stores, everywhere you went you saw the same things, practically from block to block, and not every just the international chains, but ones which I didn't realise where chains until I kept seeing the same name everywhere.

But it was good, finally got to see the Changing on the Guard which was not soo exciting, but interesting that all tourists in London practically converge on this one point at this time, and then spent most of the rest of the time walking around parts of the city I hadn't had a chance to before like Covent Garden and Soho.

And spent some time in the British Museum, in the Greek and Egypt sections, which are painfully packed with tourists, and the Africa section, which is pretty much downstairs in a basement and does not have many people going through, but was interesting, had some Ghana stuff, most of it though from Nigeria.

Was here for two nights before my next stop, which was Slovakia.

Ok, was gonna have a few photos but they refuse to upload currently so will post and try again later..

Ok they've come in now, and in random place, but hey, have the British Museum, with Greek vases, and Ghanaian kente, then me outside what I think is Buckingham Palace.... and then some part of the changing of the guards.