Hen Party in London

Well, well, I had the idea of having a hen party when Alex's friends suggested a Bachelor party for him (which they ended up didn't have one). At that moment, I was thinking that my Bachelorette party must gotta be much better than theirs and so what came to my mind was to party somewhere outside of Germany. At the end, I chose London, cos it is quite easy to get cheap flights to London from Germany and it should have a rather exciting night life, plus my good friend, Joyce, lives there and she really knows how to have fun! So at the end, my good friends from HI, Christine and Leandro also joined my trip. We have agreed not to let Alex know about our trip, until 1 week before the trip because we wouldn't want his friends to steal our great idea!

Anyway, we all had a great time there. However, it has been quite a LONG trip though. To save costs, we have decided to take a cheap flight with Germanwings from Hamburg --> London. However, the train from HI -> Hamburg is around 2-3 hrs and our flight was early in the morning at around 6:00, and we wouldn't have been able to made it to Hamburg on time if we would have taken the earliest train. So we decided to leave one day early and started to head to Hamburg on the 17.07 . We arrived in Hamburg at around dinner time, so we just had dinner there and then went straight to the hotel! We stayed at Kock's Hotel Garni, near the airport that night. However, we didn't have a good sleep at all cos the room was quite noisy and was very hot!!! With only a couple of hours of sleep we headed to Hamburg airport and straight to London! We were pretty much tired already when we arrived in London and we took those open-top tour bus which took us to every must-see of London.

The next highlight of the trip was that we watched "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" at Odeon Cinema at the Leicester Square, where Joyce said that most premiers in London are shown there and it is where you see movie stars treading the 'Red Carpet'. After dinner, we went straight to the club. Well, to be frank, there wasn't much clubbing going on a Wednesday night but Joyce managed to get us a club with great music and we spent our whole night there until they kicked us out. O, one thing that I have to mention is that Joyce gave me a surprise, which is to have me dressed like someone who just won the beauty pageant -- I have to wear a sash, scepter, a cute veil and some furry stuff sticking the back of me. Joyce told me that usually the bride who are making hen party in London has to wear those the whole night and of course, doing crazier things... which of course, I was behaving and was just enjoying myself in the music with my friends!! ;-)

After we got kicked out from the club, we went to the 24-hr open restaurant near Chinatown and had a rather big breakfast and then head back to the London airport. Of course, on the way back we slept the whole time on the train, plan and airport; but again, after we arrived back in Hamburg we still have a long way back to HI. So we didn't get back home until 16:30 on 19.07.