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Urrr... London is pretty cool (+ some observations and a rant)


topham

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Hello everyone. Yesterday I went to London for my fitness instructors theory test, but I took it as an opportunity to have a day out in london and do some nice things.

I didn't really make it complicated. I went to my favourite place for food in London, which is right by the London Dungeon, and then got the train to south Kensington to visit the Science Museum, where I nerded it up for an hour. I can't say I had a wonderful time at the science museum, but it certainly wasn't boring. I then took a long walk through Hyde park, and just relaxed as I knew I'd be stressed worse if I didn't. From Hyde park I went to the top corner of the park, which is by the Marble arch Station, then walked all the way along Oxford Street, stopping at occasional shops along the way. I was kind of surprised about how busy it really was, but altogether it seemed alright. After walking past Bond Street Station, then Oxford Circus station I made it to the part of the road I was looking for, by Tottenham Court Road station. Once there within a 2 minute walk was Denmark street, which is a street with a lot of music shops in it, and I went looking at guitars. This was disrupted when at the end of the street a demonstration was being held by Unite, and there were a lot cars and busses held up and a lot of unhappy faces. I then went to the gym where I was taking my tests and had a look around. The gym was huge, I walked in expecting it to be open and there to be a lot of equipment, but I was overwhelmed with the size. I mean, I walked in at the ground floor, there were 4 floors visible beneath me, and on just the first one down there was a swimming pool, and 2 floors beneath it there was an open space for training. I also had a look round and there were so many studios for different things, dance studios, pilates studios, normal gym floor, badminton courts, open areas for circuits sessions. I was spellbound. Then I had my 2 exams, and both were relatively easy and took me about 35 minutes each, and so I left earlier and wandered off back out into london, looking for food. I decided that as I've been good recently with my diet a Pizza Hut wouldn't go a miss so went for it, had a small pizza and salad. Next door to Pizza Hut was an american sweet shop where I got me some Smores Pop Tarts and a peanut butter Twix. I love Pop Tarts but the Twix was wholly underwhelming. I then got on the train and headed home for some well deserved rest.

There were some things during the day that I noticed, and that irked me slightly. As I was on my own, I had nothing to really do while walking down long streets than people watch.

Firstly is the amount of people and their attitudes when using their phones for everything. I like technology, and I like how usable it is when your out and about, but I don't think I've ever had my phone in my hand for more than a minute while walking along. People seem over reliant on the technology, and also, if I'm walking around with someone thats talking to me I get very frustrated if they're constantly using their phone. 'Really? Your spending time not paying attention to me? I might as well have come on my own!' Thats my opinion, and it might not be fair but really, I see my friends to chat and do things, not avoid talking to one another. It was watching two people walking, one of which was talking away and the other concentrating on their phone, being dismissive about what the other was saying, exemplifying my point. Another part of this is if people are at a party and they're on their phone, and using it too much, kick them out, I'll have no one of my friends sitting on their phone, nor will I use mine at a party of mine. If the party is boring, or they're not participating, they won't be missed if they aren't here.

Secondly was the lack of formality in places. Like when I arrived at pizza hut, instead of being greeted 'Good evening' I was greeted 'Hello mate, how are you doing?' While I know its only Pizza Hut and I know its not important but it kinda portrays the whole atmosphere I'm feeling about a lot of things, things seem to be getting more modern and with it seem to be lacking in formality. I was, however, treated to some excellent customer service, the only kind I've experienced in recent memory, and the one thats stuck in my head since I had Pizza Hut in the USA about 12 years ago.

The rest of my week so far has been fine and work is going well. Now that I've got all my studying out of the way I'll have a bit more time to relax and won't feel compelled to spend as much time in the gym, but I'll still be going to keep up my fitness. I'm aiming to keep my rest heart rate at the level its at now, I don't think it will get much lower if I'm honest. I haven't had any time to play runescape at all. Not a single minute played this week. That should change tonight as I'm on an embargo of my Xbox until my addiction to dark souls fades, and I've only got an hour of stuff to do tonight as well as listen to the latest roosterteeth podcast, so playing Rs then will probably suit me fine.

So I realise the middle section is a massive rant on my opinions about current social activities, but the rest of the things are fine. And I feel everything is good for me.

Peace -x-

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