England
London
Arrived in England, Heathrow air port 12:30 pm through Russian airline, stop over in Moscow for couple of hours. As I always do, I had two meals in the air plane. If you ask if there is some left over in the flight, they usually do and give them to you. If you are on budget travel, you should ask for that. Then I had some roasted pork. Since I haven't had any pork in India the meal was really filling. Anyway, I was bid worried about immigration in England because I heard that it is difficult to cross the boarder since I didn't have any ticket to go out of the country and some people who didn't have ticket they have been sent away or forced buy another ticket in airport. But when the serious looking immigration man asked me about what's the reason that I want to stay in England for 6 month, I answered that I play music with my friend and showed my guitar he suddenly laughed and gave me a stump. I was really lucky I guess that I got through with any troubles.
As soon as I got out from the gate, John was there to pick me up. We haven't seen each other for over three years, I really glad to meet him. Jump on his car, hit the street and we had lots of talk about our journey. But also, I was really excited about England views. We walked through the town, got on tubes “English people call tube as subway” in the shitty English weather.
We stayed in his sister's place in Notting hill. First night, John, his sister, and her friend and I went out for drink in the area and got really drunk. It was really fun but realized me that England is really expensive place to live. Next day was really cloudy, had bit of rain as well but we walked around and did some shopping for the rest of the days we stay in London town. That night I got diarrhea. I guess I wasn't ready for the London water.
Another day is also quite a lot of rain came down on the town. We just chilled out for the morning and went out to see John's friend in the evening. I met Max and he is a film maker in London and had a nice chat. We all went to BBQ for the night in their friends house, had lot of meat that night and I was really happy.
The Sunday has come and that was really nice sunny day. There was a weekend market on the Notting hill town and we walked around the town. It was really great. Since England has got really shitty weather through the year, when the sun comes out, people come out to enjoy the day. The market was filled with people and very arrived with various shops. And lots of international people are waking around the shops and having great time. I was really amazed by this multicultural place as well. So many races and age groups are mixed in London. We went to shopping for the festival and bought a sleeping bag, shoes and air bed so on made me so excited about the festival. I was still having the trouble with my tummy so I had relaxing day for the night and we were ready for the next day to hit Glastonbury.
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