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luinalda ([personal profile] luinalda) wrote2012-07-22 04:29 pm

London 2012 - Part 2: Sightseeing and walks (1)

The "sightseeing" part will consist of several parts of its own (probably 3 or more), because there are quite a lot of pictures I'd like to fit in here. ;-) They aren't really in any particular order...


Piccadilly Circus

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Coventry Street

The direct way from Piccadilly Circus to Leicester Square.
When I was there on Sunday it looked like this:

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Only 2 days later they had already changed the decoration for the Olympics...

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Personally I liked the Union Jacks better. ;-) The "London 2012" banners look a bit... boring, I think. *shrugs*

But you could already see flags and other signs for the Olympic Games all over the city.

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Leicester Square

The tkts booth was actually the very first thing I went to on Sunday morning. :D I wanted to buy tickets for "One Man, Two Guvnors" on Wednesday (evening performance) and "The Phantom Of The Opera" on Tuesday. I had no problems with "One Man" and got a good seat at quite a good price. :-) "Phantom" was a different matter. The guy told me that they usually do get tickets, but not before Monday, probably only on Tuesday even... I then went back to tkts on Monday morning again, but as they still told me "Tomorrow maybe..." I ended up buying my ticket directly at the Her Majesty's Theatre as I didn't want to take any risks. ;-) 

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On Monday I also had a look around the "M&M's World" shop, which is really quite big. ;D It was very interesting seeing all the merchandise and stuff and I loved those big tubes with the m&m's in them. *yummy* But I didn't buy anything in the end...

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[identity profile] dieastra.livejournal.com 2012-07-22 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! Ja die olympischen Ringe an der Tower Bridge haben wir auch gesehen. Aber von was für Handabdrücken am Leicester Square redet ihr hier denn? Die kenne ich nicht. Und wo muss ich den M&M Store suchen? Den kannte ich auch noch nicht, aber sieht klasse aus!

[identity profile] luinalda.livejournal.com 2012-07-23 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Am Leicester Square waren an einigen Seiten (evtl. sogar rundherum, bin nicht mehr sicher) mal so Handabdrücke von bekannten Schauspielern im Boden eingelassen. Habe z.B. Fotos von den Händen von Ian McKellen, Ralph Fiennes und Bruce Willis. ;-)

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2009 waren die auf jeden Fall noch da (habe Foto gemacht), beim Besuch danach in 2010 habe ich leider nicht drauf geachtet...

Der "M&M's World" Shop ist direkt am Leicester Square. Siehst du auf dem letzten Foto bevor meine eigentlichen M&M Shop Fotos anfangen (das ist der Blick vom Leicester Square durch die Coventry Street zum Piccadilly)... Auf der rechten Seite das "Glashaus". ;-) *gg* Ist eigentlich nicht zu übersehen. :D