On Tuesday I was in London for one day. The reason for my day trip was the Dir en grey concert at the KOKO.
I had to get up at 3am in order to get my flight at 7am. Luckily my mother drove me to the airport. It was still too early for trains so I'd have had a problem without my Mami driving me to the airport. x)
The flight went smoothly and when I arrived in London after one hour, I got money from the cash machine (the first didn't accept my card, I already panicked a bit...) and then bought a bus ticket.
I drove from Stansted to London and back by EasyBus. I heard before, that the bus often ends up in a traffic jam and is annoying and stuff... but luckily it went really smoothly! It didn't even took me more than one hour to London. Plus the bus drivers were really nice and I liked their little sarcastic jokes while explaining rules and stuff. XD
In London the first things I bought were two postcards and a map. Then I went into the Underground station (they're really at every corner, that's great!) and bought a daily ticket for it. Time to panik again, because I was confused. But after my first shock and calming down I discovered, that the underground network is really easy to understand. First stop was Mornington Crescent to check the venue. There were already many people waiting for the Dir en grey concert. All in black somehow, I felt very light clothed between all those people. XD
Still time was left and I didn't dare to go nearer to the people waiting there and stuff... so I looked on my map for a tourist thingy. In the end I decided to go to Westminster and watch the Big Ben and the London Eye. It's directly next to the Underground station! Somehow it wasn't so impressive to me than. I just stepped out the Underground station... and there it was. Oh well. No idea what I expected though. :D
Aaaand finally my next stop was Marble Arch. At 12am I wanted to meet up with
Yuki there. ♥
It wasn't so easy though, so many people there! In the end she called me and I met up with her and her father in a park with a biiig horse head as a statue. oo" You can see a picture of this statue and the two of us on her blog.
Yuki's father is really cool btw! So it was fun to walk around with the two of them. And I was unbelievable happy to see Yuki again. (^//^)
We walked about three hours around Picadilly Cirus, searching for the Puri Kura machine... XD We made stops at Japanese supermarkets and a shop with magazines and Japanese Manga on our search. I had Onigiri! Oh I love all those supermarkets. And I love all those various restaurants - Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, .... Like in Amsterdam. Such a varity. We also were in a Game center. I love Game centers! They had Dance Dance Revolution!!! One day I want to play it, though I'll make a fool of myself for sure.
We also tried to grab a Hello Kitty but in vain... On the pictures you can see Yuki trying to get one. This makes really addictive!
Can you believe, that I dared to ran to really awesome hot guys and asked with my crappy english 'excuuuuse meeee, do you know where's the puri kura machine?', can you? Me not, but I did so. Sadly they all sent us in different directions and weren't sure about it either. But they were nice to us. :)
In the end two girls were so nice to us and brought us there. Finally we were in China Town. Awesome! They've so many cute stuff to buy. If I'd had money left, I'd have spent there a lot. I only bought sweets for my Dorks and made PuriKura with Yuki. Very expensive - 12 pound one! But I think in the end it was worth it.
After that we took the underground train to the venue. When we were standing across the street of the Koko we could see Die and Toshiya walking around on the roof. Yuki's father whistled, Die and Masuda looked down to us, Yuki and me waved, Die seemed to think a moment, we were still smiling and waving and finally he waved back at us and we were only like 'SUPER OMG'. XD Yeah, we can be little fangirls too, just without this stupid screaming around.
You can see a picture of the guys standing on the roof in Yuki's blog entry.(^-^)
Before we lined up in the queue as well, we had dinner. Yuki's father invited me as well, I'm so grateful. =D
Having eaten and drunk enough we made our way to line up. My report about the concert will follow in a second post. This will get to long otherwise and I want to tell every stupid detail about it. ♥
After the concert we stood for a while in front of the venue. One guy who apologized for his 'queue jumping' (it wasn't really queue jumping anyway XD) stood there singing and it just made me smile so much, because it looked so cute how he stood there alone and sang. And he smiled back, I'm always sooo happy and grateful when people smile back at me. (^o^) In the underground I head a really weird saying goodbye with Yuki because somehow it was confusing and suddenly they were off the underground and the doors closed so fast that I just could wave and ya.. *drop*
I went again to Westminster because I saw pictures of the night view. And indeed, the night view was very beautiful! I love those sparkeling lights and the warm light surrounding Big Ben. It reminds me of Paris. All the buildings there were lightned so warmly as well.
I walked a bit through London, because somehow I didn't felt scared, actually I felt secure and at ease. (o_o) At the train station I was a bit unsure which train to take and in the end I decided to ask someone, was already to tired to think properly. The guy I asked was very nice and even brought me to the right direction so I wouldn't get lost there. He also chatted with me a bit, where I'm from and why I'm there and stuff. I'm glad that it isn't to difficult to find a nice person in London! When I arrived back at Baker Street I got asked for the 3rd time for the way. XD Since not many people where there I decided to pack out my map and help them..from tourist to tourist. :DD They were cool and while saying goodbye we bid good luck to each of us to find the right way. That was funny! XD
At the airport everyone was sleeping down at the floor... And I had 4hours left. I got me a banana, chocolate and water and than sat in front of the computer for a bit. It was very expensive and somehow no one was really online so after almost an hour I searched for a 'cozy' place on the floor too and slept as well. I was very glad when I could finally get ready for my flight. Here and there I also saw a few more Dir en grey fans and back at the airport in Hannover two talked to me. We chatted a bit and I was really really happy that they talked to me because my morning wasn't too nice and I was very sad that the day before ended so fast and ya... I had fun talking to them.
I'm really thankful to many people talking to me, smiling to me, helping me, meeting me and stuff because they made my day so awesome. Thank you so much. ♥
