Victoria Station

London Victoria station, generally known as Victoria, is a 

central London railway terminus and London Underground 

complex named after nearby Victoria Street. With over 

73 million passenger entries and exits between April 

2010 and March 2011, Victoria is the second-busiest 

terminus in London (and the UK) after Waterloo, and

 includes an air terminal for passengers travelling by 

train to Gatwick Airport. It is one of 19 stations managed 

by Network Rail. The area around the station is an 

important interchange for other forms of transport: a 

local bus station is in the forecourt, and Victoria Coach 

Station for long-distance road coaches is nearby. Victoria 

is in Traverlcard Zone 1.

Victoria is a London terminus for both Southern and 

Southeastern. Southern provides the majority of 

commuter/regional services to South London and Sussex 

as well as parts of East Surrey via the Brighton Main 

Line. Southeastern provides services in South East 

London and along the Chatham Main Line to Kent. It is 

also the terminus for the Gatwick Express service to 

Gatwick Airport.

There are effectively four railway stations on the site: on 

National Rail, two serving main-line routes in south 

eastern England, to Brighton, Hove, Worthing, 

Eastbourne, Canterbury and Dover; and on the London 

Underground, an underground station built by the cut and 

cover method serving the District and Circle lines and the 

deep-level Victoria line tube line station.

Victoria station is the closest mainline station to 

Buckingham Palace.

We can eat and snack in this restaurants;and they are many cheap:

Burger King → Kiosk selling fast food burgers, chicken, fish and veggie meals to take away.

McDonald's → Fast food burgers, chicken, fish or veggie meals and desserts to take away or eat in. Free Wi-Fi.

Starbucks → Eat in or take away range of freshly roasted coffees and ice-blended drinks, delicious paninis, sandwiches, cakes and pastries.

15th March Madame Tussaud

 15th March
Madame Tussauds is a museum located in Central London. It is famous for recreating famous people and celebrities, in wax. It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud

We took photos with all the wax's people. I love Madame Tussaud because we can take photos with famous people.

Also, at the end  we watched a 4D film, we crossed a terror hall and also we finished Madame Tussaud in a shop.

17th March

That day was a long one, but very exciting. We visited the most well-known places in the morning, in Westminster area.

We were all eager to have a ride in the London Eye. We went up in two capsules and, in spite of my vertigo, I could take some photos. These are our mates seen from our capsule. Do you know that it's more than 100 metres high and that it doesn't stop when you walk into the capsules? From the top you can see at a distance  of more than 30 kilometres. How impressive!!

 But it was in the afternoon when we walked by the River Thames; one of my favourite moments, though it was a rainy day. When we had lunch we went to the London Bridge and crossed it.

We walked a long way and passed by some streets and cafés. The Globe (Shakespeare's Theatre) appeared on the left.
 After this, we found one of the bridges that people who like Harry Potter films know very well, the Millenium Bridge. And we crossed it to go to Saint Paul's Cathedral, with its impressive dome.

I love this photo because the Big Ben is my favourite landmark in London. It's one of the Houses of Parliament and it was built on 1858, but the clock began operating on September 7th 1959. Everybody knows the Big Ben because it's one of the most important places in the world.

Natural History Museum

Our first morning in London, we spent part or our time in Natural History Museum.

Natural History Museum is in an area where there are a lot of cultural buildings: museums, theatres, etc. These area was builded by Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. Some of the most important buildings in this area are the Royal Albert Hall, Victoria & Albert Museum, and, of course, Natural History Museum.

In Natural History Museum, we can find a los of fossils and minerals, and replicas of animals (from dinosaurs to huge mammals). There were a lot of visits of schools, and some of the children were equiped with a helmet as if they were explorers through the museum.

When you come into the museum, first you can find is a giant reconstruction of a dinosaur. In the ground floor, we could also find an exhibition about dinosaurs. The most exciting was to find a real size replica of the tiranosaurus rex.