Internship is the best approach to make a tour in foreign coutries for an undergraduate. It gives exposure as well as work experience. I got my intern in the end of the semester when all of my friends have got their intern. I got it just 3 days before end semester exams, now you can imagine how were my exams after getting this news. Anyway some how I managed to pass all the courses and was ready to go England, no body in my home infact in my whole relations can think of me to go foreign. Finally day May 12 came, and I was curiously waiting to see what next...

May 12, 2005 3.00 PM Thursday (In Flight)

Right now I am flying to London and trying to remind all those moments that I left in India. Diary is the best solution to capture all those memorable moments. I reached Indira Gandhi International Airport around 3 am, whole night I couldn’t sleep. I met many of my friends at the airport who were also flying to different countries for the same reason Internship. We had completed all the airport formalities till 5 am, already taken blessings of our parents. We were ready for flight from Delhi to Amman and then Amman to London for me. We were 5-6 friends who were together up to Amman but after that we dispersed to different destinations. There were 2-3 going to France and 1 for Rome. I was lonely for London. Anyway this was my first experience in flight so I was very curious to know each and every thing that happens in flight and airport. And wow finally we were informed to move towards our flight (Jordan Airlines RJ193). Like trains or buses it was taking lot of time to move. Scheduled time was 6:15am and it was already 7 am. After some time we were in air around 34-36 thousand feet above the ground. Now things started to happen, whatever I watched in movies were going to happen in real. At this height there was no point to look outside, I couldn’t see except clouds or some lines of highways and rivers.

Around 10:30 am (according to Amman timings) we landed there. Now the time was for Amman to London. There were many English around me, and one Sardarji and his wife too. English people were speaking so fast and their accent oh my God. I was continuously thinking that how would I face my professor and others in UK. But sitting in flight for 10-15 minutes I became relax. In this flight I got seat near to that Sardarji, I quickly asked airhostess for another seat, because flight was half empty. So I moved to back seat near wings. Now I am writing this diary. I am so tired that I am gonna sleep now. Rest of the story I will write when I will reach there.

May 13, 2005 5.00 PM Tuesday
Plane landed at Heathrow at 4 O’clock (according to UK timings). At last I had seen Heathrow airport which is known to be very luxurious and one of the busiest airport. Around me there were all sorts of people white, Japanese and from many other countries. Now I had to collect my luggage but I didn’t know where to go. I was just blindly following people. Everybody was moving so fast that I was not even able to ask anyone where we are going. Anyway I reached in a big hall having 15-16 counters where people were showing their passport and immigration card. When I was in flight, somebody put an immigration card at my seat but at that time I was sleeping so I couldn’t know what to do. I just put it in my bag. I filled this card and showed to a white woman. She was looking so cute and speaking very good English in an accent that was very difficult for me to understand. I somehow managed to answer all those question that she asked, What is your purpose of staying here , how long will you be here, show me offer letter that university provided you. After all these inquiry I went to collect my 20 kg bag. I found my bag slight torn away that I was expecting because I had seen how they were treating our bags while unloading the plane. They were just throwing them.

Anyway I had taken a trolley, put my luggage over it and trying to move out but this airport was so big that I took around20-25 min more to come out. I was just following the sign for trains (underground tubes) and buses. I thought I should go by train to Leeds, but I found myself so much confusing. I was continuously thinking, what if I don’t get board with so many luggages. I went the place where I could buy train ticket, but what was that, I couldn’t buy a single ticket, so much scared. People were coming and dropping some coins in a machine and getting quick ticket. Here I didn’t know what to do with this machine. So I didn’t take any chance because I had no change as well. I was asking people how to get tickets but I found myself very scared so I decided to take bus and I went outside of the airport by a lift.

As soon as I came out, it was very cold outside. Cool and stormy breeze was blowing. It was raining season so it was too cold. I wear my jacket then I felt good. I found many national express busses over there. I went near to them and asked one person how to go for Leeds. He told me to buy a ticket. I went to ticket room and bought a ticket for Leeds. It was of 32.5 pounds. I was very stupid; I should have bought return ticket. It would be of around 42 pounds. I could save 24 pounds but I was so confused that I somehow wanted to reach Leeds and in hurry I had bought single sided ticket. I was so sad, how could I make this mistake. You can understand still 1 pound is 80 rupees for me; it was natural to think like this. Anyway bus was at 7:30pm and now it was 5pm only. I had to wait for 2.5 hrs at bus stand. I had no option just to observe people out there with little bit unsecured feelings. All were white, not a single Indian out there. I was very afraid because I was going to reach Leeds at 1:30 am. I was thinking ‘how will I reach to my unseen, unknown place with so much luggage and 250 pounds’. I was watching all those scenes that we used to see in TV, girls wearing short cloths in this cold too. Even bus driver had coat and tie. Everybody was looking gentleman.

As soon as I got this internship, I somehow arranged my accommodation from India. I tried to find an Indian in Leeds and I fortunately found one Bihari Nandan, doing PhD in UL. He sent me address of my stay but didn’t send the address of land lord from where I had to collect keys.

Now I wanted to contact Nandan to get the address of land lord. There were some phone booths but I had seen these booths first time so I didn’t know how to call. I asked one person but he was from France so he also didn’t know about charges and all. After wandering around, I had asked one more person, he told me exact way to call. Just drop 30 penns and call for one min. I had 30 penns change so I called him. In 30 penns I could say only few sentence and line got disconnected. I tried again with some more money. Nandan told me that he would call me on this number. After some time I got his call and he told me exact address of house holder.

I caught bus at 7:30pm and this bus was so good that I cannot tell you. There were different people sitting around me. Just for few hrs I had seen outside but I was so tired that I couldn’t stop myself to sleep. I slept for half of an hour and was watching where I was. In the bus just before Dyer Street I had asked to one Japanese woman, Is the next stop Dyer Street, but I didn’t know, she was not able to understand my English or reverse might be the reason. Then I asked one more person, this time he was English and I found that next stop is my destination. I hired taxi from there to my accommodation in 5-6 pounds. The landlord dropped me to my house in his car and showed me my room and gave me the keys. I was so much tired that I went into deep sleep and woke up at 9 O’clock.

Now the major problem came up. FOOD…how to cook, how to manage all this?? I took 1 hr. to think and manage for food. My first rice in England was so tasty with less salt. I ate and left some for remaining day. Bathroom was very different, you know what I mean. J. I couldn’t adjust in this new environment at that day and no bath that day. I was preparing myself mentally to meet professor in the university ‘University of Leeds’. I was very scared to go and meet professor who is English. I somehow went this institute and found one important paper (offer letter) missing. I forgot to bring with me. I came back to home.

Food problem was solved by Nandan. Early in the morning when I was in deep sleep he came to my house and helped me to buy some stuff. I bought flour (3.0 pounds for 5 kg), Mung dal, onions, refined oil etc. Total cost was 7.8 pounds. This was one Pakistani shop. I met few of my flat mats at that morning and all of them were from Gujarat. All of them were looking very nice guys but I didn’t know all of them were smoker except one Maulik, oh my God!!

Now around 2;30 PM of 13^th I am in Institute of Material Science building. It is very big building. I went inside and but I didn’t know where to go. I had asked one of the gentle men. Where is the office of Dr. A. Mullis and I after some time I found the correct place. It was office of Materials Science where head of the department Prof. A. J. Bell sits. Out side the office his secretary, a beautiful lady were sitting there. I came closer to her and showed offer letter to her. She welcomed me. She was talking to me very nicely. She requested me to wait outside for 5 min. After few min. she came with Prof. Bell and he shook hand with me. He was looking very cool professor and my guess was right, he was really very cool and intelligent professor. He asked me about my arrival and accommodation. He introduced me to one more professor Ashish Garg, and you will not believe, that professor was form IIT Kanpur and from my department. He was also working in the same field in IIT. Now Prof Bell left me with Ashish. We talked very informally. He asked me about my accommodation, arrival, flight etc. and told me about people out there. Prof Bell (nick Andy) told me to relax this weekend and start coming from Monday onwards. Ashish told me that Andy is very good both in terms of nature and knowledge. He asked me to come for a movie ‘Kaal’ on coming weekend. I said ‘yes’.

I reached at home, and found land lord ‘Shanti Bhai’ waiting for me for advance and all. I gave an advance of 150 pounds and settled in a room of rent 25 pounds per week + around 10 pounds for gas, light and water etc per month. I signed the contract and went with him to his home. We had a cup of tea and after some talk I came back to my room and started writing this diary. I had long chat with my flat mats.

May 16, 2005 10:30 PM MondayThe day and time when I write my diary, I like to mention that. Today was my first official day of project. Very first day Ashish told me, every body comes at 9 am so accordingly I reached there at 9:15am. Ashish met me at the entrance of the building so we approached to his office because Andy was not there. In his room he started to chat with his friend and after some time he went to Ms. Joy to ask my sitting place and about Andy. But she said no idea. So I had to wait in his room, he explained me a little bit about my project and taught me some very basic fundas and gave me few papers to study carefully. After some time we had coffee and just after that we met Andy who just arrived after his meeting. I was told to meet him at 3 PM after lunch for discussing my work. I came home at 1:15PM and quickly cooked food for me and came back to university at 3 pm. We discussed our project and one PhD student Micky was going to guide me. He was basically from India but now family in Pakistan, but he permanently living in UK. He showed me labs and gave me a key for labs, where I was going to sit as well. He showed me computer cluster where I spent 1 hr for checking my 5 days unchecked mails. It was already 5:30pm so I decided to go home with Micky. That’s it for today, nothing special today.

May 19, 2005 9.00 PM Thursday
Today everything was same except one thing; I went to lab which was for thin film deposition. It was so clean that we cannot imagine more cleanness than that. It was full of modernized instruments and machines. Before entering the main lab we had three electronic doors, only users of that lab can use that lab. Before entering last door there was one chamber, where we used to wear or cover up ourselves with provided dress, which prevents dust particles to enter in the lab. Even we had to cover our shoes too. And one more thing we could not open two gates simultaneously otherwise there was danger of air contamination. If somebody opens two doors simultaneously then siren starts alarming. I worked here for 3 hrs. It was nice experience. Meanwhile I talked to Micky a lot, who was showing me all these stuff. He is very nice and sincere person. He is married but looking like a bachelor. He has 2 and half yrs old son. After working there I got back to home. It had already been a long time I couldn’t have a cup to tea. I bought a bottle of 2 lt milk cost 1.21 pounds. Can you imagine this? Every thing was looking so expensive, but you know after few days it was just normal. Very few days were very hard me to adjust.

May 22, 2005 10:10 PM Sunday
Today as usual I wake up NOT early in the morning. Around 9 O’clock, after having a cup of tea I was thinking to go church because last night we (me and Maulik) made a plan to go there, but Maulik was sleeping, so around 11 o’clock we finally went there. Prayer already started. We were confused whether to go inside or NOT meanwhile a gentleman came out and we asked to him, Can we come inside?. He told, yeah why not. We sat on the last bench. The prayer was still going on. We were just following whatever other people were doing. After completion of prayer we came out of the prayer hall there was arrangement of tea with some biscuits. We had tea and some biscuits. The priest came to us, and because we were looking new to him so he was trying to confess us to attend his church. We talked a lot to him. We came home and suddenly decided to go for movie. Yeah it’s done. We decided to go for ‘Kaal’. I took my camera with me. We reached Bradford ‘The Odean’ multiplex. It was good, but our bad luck the movie had gone, so we decided to go for another theatre in Bradford town ‘Cine World’. Same is here, No ‘Kaal’ but there were some more Hindi movies like ‘Nazar’ and ‘Main Aisa Hi Hoon’. We bought tickets for ‘Main Aisa Hi Hoon’ in 4.5 pounds for students (after showing international student card) but the movie was going to be screened at 4:25 pm and it 2:30 pm at this time so what to do now for 2 hrs. We came out from theatre. There was Hollywood bowling. We went there and because ticket for one game was 4 pounds and it was looking costly for me so I didn’t take ticket but Maulik took one for himself. We went inside for playing. He was playing and I was capturing some beautiful pictures. Suddenly what happened I found a ticket of 8 pounds in my hand and we thought it was our ticket and I found something wrong there, so I came back to the counter and asked them to allow two people to play? We paid 8 pounds so please allow me to play as well, actually we paid 4 pounds but as soon as we reached to our gaming place, the person who was playing earlier, left his ticket there and by mistake it came in my hand with jackets and all. After this I also played with Maulik. So by the way we played 3 games in 4 pounds. One Maulik alone with first ticket and 1 more game each after that drama. After passing around 1 hour there, we were searching some more things outside. We wandered a lot but found nothing. At last it was 4:30 pm we watched movie and came back to home. The movie was boring but anyway today was not as boring as it used to be before for me. That’s it for the day. Good Night.

May 30, 2005 10:35 AM Monday (Bank Holiday)
After so many days I visited a place in U.K. called ‘Bolton Abbey’ on last weekend. Sunday morning I was in my room and suddenly Maulik knocked the door and asked me to visit some places nearby. I said OK. After having some food we left at 11:45 AM or so. First we reached city center. It was quite good and some attracting super-markets, we could there. There is a metro station. We asked a woman about some places to visit. She told about Bolton Abbey. It is a country side, very good sceneries out there. We bought tickets for ‘Skipton’ in 6.10 pounds. Metro train was good. I was just missing some friends with me otherwise it would be good fun in train really. It was so boring in train, I passed 45 min by just sitting there. There was no thrill at all. Anyway we reached ‘Skipton’. It was small town, mainly filled with old retired person, no youngsters. It was very peaceful place, no night club. After coming out form ‘Skipton’ railway station we reached to bus station in 10 min walk. We waited for bus about 1 hr but there was no bus for Bolton Abbey. We were thinking that we had to come back but we hired a taxi, but it was slightly costly, around 9 pounds. At last we reached there. From outside it was not looking deserted but as soon as we entered we saw many visitors there. It was really great scene. It was so spread that you can walk as much as you can. There was a small river surrounded with hills and every where greenish ground. Three were many couples too. As you know what they do at these places. They were enjoying these moments. We had been wandering around for 1-2 hrs. After coming out from this place we had ice-cream in 1.30 pounds, it was so bad that I can’t say. After 1 hr or so we called taxi for coming back to Skipton. Meanwhile I was observing people around there and their life style. There were so many cars, so many models Mercedes and Ford and many more. Really UK was looking developed, first time I felt there. Now again in 10 pounds we reached at station and came back to Leeds via ‘Shipley’. I had seen free mind people here. They just don’t care what is happening around them. Everybody is busy in his or her life.

After reaching Leeds we decided to eat ‘Dosa’. It’s strange, for eating also we have to decide..haha. We had a Dosa in 4 pounds each. It was not so nice as we were expecting. Anyway around 8:30PM, we came back to home. Today we had an expenditure of 43 pounds (21.5 pounds each).

One more thing around 11:30PM when we were just having some gossip ‘Ketan Bhai’ came in the room. We had ‘Chane’ and I took two sip of beer as well. It was so bitter. That was all for Sunday. Today mean Monday is also holiday. Dekhte hai ki kya hota hai aaj.

May 31, 2005 3.00 PM Tuesday

Today is working day but I don’t know why my university is not open. Anyway it is holiday for me. Although as usual I woke up at 8 am and went for university at 9:15am but I found it closed. Then I went to ‘Merrion Center’ for knowing about ‘Digital Camera’. I went to one shop. It was full of cameras. I asked one person to show me Canon A95 Powershot. I was there around half of an hour. He gave me full preview. I like that camera and decided to buy that one, I first wanted to know the price of this camera in India. That’s why I waited for some time.

June 3, 2005 7:50 PM Friday

In last 2-3 days there was no work for me in university. I was getting bored very badly. I was only thinking about that DigiCam that I was going to buy. I see details of many cameras daily on internet and try to convince myself that canonA95 is the best. Anyway today I bought this camera in 247 pounds including charger, but no camera case. Everything was so costly in that shop that I was not able to think at all. The price of this camera was 298 pounds. I somehow succeeded to bargain and he reduced the price to 229 pounds of camera + 512 mb card then another 16.99 pounds for charger. The case was of 10-15 pounds so I didn’t buy this. The camera is superb. I have taken few photos with different functions and modes. Today when I came to home at 3:45pm I just had tea with 4 breads. Even I had no lunch today. I just started to open parcel and played a lot with this cam. It has so many functions that even playing 2-3 hrs with this I am not able to understand completely but It has superb functions with superb quality. Weekend is coming and I am going to play more with this. Now I think, I won’t touch my Panasonic camera. I wasted money in buying three rolls in India. Anyway at that time I was not sure about my expenses here in UK. After coming here when I found that I could save money then I planned to buy. It has good thing I can take my own pic too just flip the screen and click..hehehe. I am too excited to show this camera at home but only hesitation or trouble is custom duty at Indian airport. I have planned to escape out from this. I am going to show that I have bought this camera in India not from UK. Dekthe hai kya hota hai.

Otherwise this camera will be too costly for me, if I have to pay custom duty. One more thing out of 247 pounds I will get back 23.93 pounds tax back at Heathrow airport. OK this is for today now see what happens in coming days. Now I am not going to buy anything. Giving 250 pounds is not so problematic, if I give same amount in rupees means 20000Rs then I will, perhaps, be not able to spend this big amount. 250 looks small figure. Although both are same but psychologically 250 helped me to buy.

June 4, 2005 10:45 PM Saturday

Today as usual I was getting bored till 7PM, but suddenly some magic happened and I enjoyed whole evening till 10:30PM. What happened, at 7:15 I was sitting in my room, suddenly I found that it is time for Aarti in Mandir, I went there and it was really good temple. I shot some videos and clicked photos as well. We (me and my friend) came back to home but we were not feeling good walking outside the house and thinking what to do now. He suggested several ideas of bar, pub (but not disco and night club). He wanted to drink beer but I don’t so he told me that you would drink some mango or orange juice so I thought, it might be good idea so we moved to a pub. It was really good, so many English people were sitting there, such a good music was there. I had no mood to have juice, cancelled that idea, I also ordered one beer. I forgot the name but I will ask to my friend tomorrow. I will write name here….it was BODDINGTON beer.

Around us, there were so many sexy ladies were sitting. I had never seen such scenes before. I had taken some pics and videos out there too. I was drinking beer like coke so my told me take it easy otherwise ‘chad jaayegi’ then I started sip by sip and very slowly like angrej. I had seen one interesting thing if you will show yourself then nobody going to look at you because this is normal here but if you scare then you might be noticed by someone. Suddenly my friend told me ‘Keep this glass here and go to that health center pointing to a building called ‘Virgin’, near the bar. Go there and ask about service.’ Actually this was a center where they had swimming pool, Spa, Gym, many more facilities. If you want to join this center then you can take one day trial so we planned to go there for one day trial. I went there; there was a beautiful girl on reception. Se accosted me and asked what can I do for you I told, I want to join this Virgin and want to be a member but before this I would like to take trial and want to taste the services of this center. She told me ‘why not sure’. She noticed that I am really interested. Then I told her that I would like to come with my friend and both of us wanted to join. She noted down names and gave me a card. I came back to bar with that card. We spend 45 min in this bar. We finished our drinks. I wasted here 2.10 pounds, but it was just for an experience. I really enjoyed. My friend was hungry and wanted to go to any restaurant but I didn’t want to go there because they were too costly, and I was simply in no mood to waste money. I told him that you can go, I will eat at home. He was insisting but I refused then he suggested for Pizza then I thought its ok, let’s go for pizza. We first went to toilet in bar itself; there I found one more interesting thing. There was a machine in which drop a coin and get a Durex, it’s interesting. J

We came out and moved towards pizza-hut. I was feeling the effect of beer; I was not able to stand. I knew what I was doing but it was simply looking that I was doing drama. Something was going on but I didn’t know what it was. We entered in pizza-hut and ordered a big hot pizza in 10.99 pounds. It was taking to much time and I was looking around. I was really enjoying in half drunk mood. Finally pizza came. Now a naughty idea came in my friend’s mind. He told me that were not going to pay for it. I asked him, how ?? He told me, just eat this pizza then I will tell you. We ate completely. Then he told me “see at the counter, there is no one, everybody is busy, we can move out easily. We did so, nobody asked anything. As we came out, we ran away from there on the main road as fast as we could. I did not believe how I could do it. I was feeling not so good. This was second “CHUNA” we made. First in Hollywood bowling. Anyway we came at home in smiling condition. I am writing this para in completely conscious mind. Don’t worry, that was only for short time.

I had prepared Dal in afternoon for lunch. I thought that rest, I would eat in dinner. Now it is going to waste but one of my friends had this. Now I am going to sleep. Good Night !! J

June 5, 2005 7:35 PM Sunday

Today we went to health center where first of all we did some excercises in Gym then went towards swimming pool. Although I didn’t know swimming yet I got down into the pool. It was not deep. First time I had seen half naked girls so close. It was nice experience J. After this we moved towards spa and bubble bath. It was hot water. It was for massage. After passing few minutes over there we came back and sat in a internet café in the same center. At 12 o’clock we came back to home. Now I was so tired, I slept at 1 pm and wake up at 5 pm.

June 25, 2005 (Glasgow, Scotland)

After so many weekends, we have planned for somewhere to visit and it will be Scotland, I hadn’t thought about it. When I was coming from India at that time I was in no mood to go anywhere because of funding problem but now I am in position to go to London as well after few weeks. It is tremendous experience.

This was my plan to go to Edinburgh via Glasgow, but for getting cheaper tickets we had to board from Manchester for Scotland instead of boarding from Leeds itself. So I thought that why not visit Manchester too but no one else was ready to visit with me so I planned my visit in such a way that I can visit Manchester-Glasgow-Edinburgh in 3 days, 1 day for each place. So I visited Manchester on 24^th. There I had seen Trafford center, very good supermarket. This para I am writing in Glasgow (in a garden). Around me there are many Scottish and other tourists as well. Every body is relaxing in this garden (around 3:25pm), nice sunny day. We (me and Sreijan) reached Glasgow at 5:15am early in the morning. That time it was too cold. This city was looking so attractive that early in the morning we tried to visit but we were feeling very tired because of last day Manchester visit and night trip form Manchester to here. So we came back to coach station and got fresh, and then started our trip. Today for Scottish, it was celebrating day. This day they won a war so they were celebrating the day. It was so nice to see such a big march. I haven’t seen such a big march in my life before. It was new and exciting experience. Then we tried to collect information about other attractions. They are very near to each other so we are visiting them just by walking. So we are now sitting and relaxing a little bit. After resting 2 and half hours we decided to move out and visit markets, there was nothing special in market except an ice cream that we had in 1.8 pounds. It was tantstie. After that we came back to same park and now the most interesting part of this journey was going to come, Jazz band, it was superb, people around us were taking drinks and dancing. It was really good to see their dance. We enjoyed this dance party 2 hrs. Now we went to bus station at 9.05 we had bus for Edinburgh. In the bus we enjoyed our one hr journey very much. Scotland is really beautiful; some pics were obviously taken by me. Around 10:20pm some how we reached to my friend Kushagra’s house. His house was very big so his room. At that night all three of us slept on one double bed. Next day I visited Edinburgh by walk. Unfortunately we got dispersed because of some confusion. Around 6 o’clock we met in a street and after that we went to a hill, enjoyed climbing. After that we planned to go to a night club but all night club were going to start at 11pm so we thought to come back at 11pm after dinner, but after reaching home we were not in condition to move out, we were so much tired. We just wanted to be at home. Next day we came back to Glasgow and then to Manchester and then to Leeds. I reached home at 1 AM.

July 7, 2005 Wednesday

I am sitting in my room and writing about my London trip. Now I am in no mood to visit anywhere. First of all I would like to say, it is not much different city than others, but ya there are some places like London eye, Buckingham palace and tower bridge and few more…where we can enjoy and can feel that we are in London. Otherwise it is just like other metropolitan city, you will find lot of Indian around you in whole city. It’s very crowded city. In tubes (underground trains) you won’t find space to stand in peak hours.

Anyway we (six friends) planned to visit this city from july 2 to july 4. Few of us came in London on 1^st july, but I reached there on july 2^nd at 1:45pm at Victoria coach station. It was 25min late there I was going to wait for my friends who were coming from Cardiff at 3:30 pm so I passed around 1:45 in here and there. As they came we reached to Leicester Square where rest of our friends were going to meet but unfortunately it didn’t happen, anyway we walked a lot in Leicester sq. and saw some unusual shop like sex shop, gaming center etc. Same day there was some rally passing by, in which all the gays and more than half nude girls were marching. On the same we found one better gathering, where Islamic girls on the stage were lecturing to support Lesbian culture. We were just moving in streets to streets and trying to move our hostel so that we could our stuff there, this hostel was very far but somehow we reached there before 9 pm which was our check in time after that time we could be fined. Anyway in spite of pre booking we didn’t get rooms there but receptionist shifted us in different hostel. He arranged company’s van. New hostel was ‘Millenium Lodge’ 10 min far by van. We got 4 beds dorm in 12 pounds per night (including breakfast and kitchen facility). We cooked Maggie at last night and ate as dinner, because no other option. In kitchen there were some cooking going on already by some Barcelona people. Overall we couldn’t be able to visit any of the places on Saturday night, because this hostel was too far (in the end of zone 2), we decided to stay in room and were waiting for rest of our friends and worried about them but at 12:15 after midnight they came and we had lot of gossip and planning at that night till 1:30 am. Next day after great breakfast we started our trip with 4.5 pounds day rider of tube. In whole day we visited British Museum, London Eye, Tower of London and London Bridge, so many pictures were shot. It was nice to be in London at that day.

Same day we shifted to another hostel Doversion near Borough in 11 pounds per night (breakfast included). In this hostel we got an eight bed dorm in which 3 girls were already there and now 4 of us were going to add. We heard that if you want to go for Buckingham palace, best was to visit in night. So we went there in night. After reaching there we didn’t find anything interesting but suddenly we were shocked to see Buckingham palace. There was very interesting matter to see on this building. This building remains completely in dark, but suddenly some pictures appears on this building showing some history. It was too good. When we were returning we saw Big Ben in night, it was too good. Whenever I remind that picture, I want to go again there.

Anyway next day we started our journey with Science museum and Buckingham Guard changing, house of parliament, Hyde Park, many more places. Full day we were just visiting as many places as we could. Then I started to return back to Victoria coach station at 6:45 pm and bus was at 7:30 pm. I reached in Leeds at 12 midnight

This was the last trip in England. After this trip I was just waiting to finish my intern. I was eagerly waiting 12^th Aug to come so that I can catch my flight for India. I think, I have visited much more places than I was expecting before reaching there. University was paying me 150 pounds a week. This was not enough to stay in England for 3 month and flight expenses etc etc. But somehow I managed and had very nice internship. Officially my internship was getting over on 9^th may. I submitted my project report and rested 3 days at home without any work. I used to go to university to check my mails and for passing some good time.

During my stay in Leeds, one day I visited Nandan’s place also. I can’t forget that person who made my trip successful and economical, who arranged place for me even he didn’t know me. But I will always repent that I couldn’t cook food for him, One day he insisted to me to cook Aloo Parathas, because he didn’t know cooking. But I couldn’t do it for him. Last day (11^th may) I bought some chocolates and some stuff for my sister and packed my all stuff and was ready to come back.

In returning I had one day transit in Amman, It was most awful day for me. At last I reached India, where I saw, my parents were waiting there. It was very nice moment for me.

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