Six months in the UK

Posted on November 4, 2023  •  5 minutes  • 974 words  • Other languages:  Español

Photo dump of my days in the UK. Sadly I had to leave before becoming an irregular migrant. Hopefully life takes me back there in the future

Arriving to the UK: London, England

Skeleton at the airport

Argentinian wine

Waffle time in a typical London cloudy day. I visited London a couple of times during my time there

Albert Bridge at night. Photo taken on the National Express 444 London - Gloucester coach

Gloucester, Enlgand

Gloucester park

McDonalds breakfast meal combo. Eating a burger with coffee felt so weird first time. Then it became a favourite of mine

Gloucester Cathedral

Random couch and bikes in the trash

Another couch in the trash

Mate from god knows where, but was good enough

And random giant fox festival

The fox

London, England… again

Westminster abbey view from the district underground exit

Ducks in Green Park

London skyline from Greenwich Park

Payments in cash is not accepted in many places. And some places don’t wanna deal with £50 notes

Cheltenham, England

It is Gloucester little sister but posh town

Pittville park. This area in Cheltenham became my home

Geese at Pittville park. Remember them, we’ll check them out in a few months

Near 4th of July, some buildings in the park were American themed decorated

Pitvile park has a nice lake

Random £10 penguin decoration

A bee drinking water from the sink

Birmingham, England

A couple of hours north of Cheltenham

Bull at the Bimingham New Street Station

Found a manga store that had many romcoms. Shout out to Worlds Apart Comic Store

Kaguya-sama

I’m more of a Fujiwara guy, but Miko is good

Birmingham has many canals. Actually more than Venice. Source: some random poster I read while walking along the canals

Birmingham ducks

Extremely overpriced Argentinian food. For £3.90 I can buy a Tesco meal deal

Bristol, England

A couple of hours south of Cheltenham

There were random unicorns all around the city

St Nicholas market

Ducks at a store

I got one, but from a Tesco

Sanrio plushies

St John’s Church

Glasgow, Scotland

It was a 8 hours travel by coach, all the way north out of England into Scotland

I just know that town exists cause of a Catfish and the Bottlemen song and an inside joke with an ex (if by any chance you are reading this, Glasgow is beautiful and I hope you can visit and even live there someday)

Clyde River

Tolbooth Steeple

Glasgow Cathedral

Some Scottish emblems

Commemorative plaque to those Glasgowians who died in the Falklands war. Funny enough, that war was against Argentina back in the 80s for some islands down in the Atlantic

Glasgow skyline from Glasgow Necropolis

William Wallace poster

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, where Sauchiehall Street starts

Buchanan Street

Cute soda cans at £1.99

Portrait of Alexander Reid, an original van Gogh painting at Kelvingrove museum

Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington. It became a tradition to always put him a traffic cone on his head. See more in its wikipedia article

Back to Cheltenham, England

Sunset at Pittville Park. I have this pic as my phone screensaver

Funny sign at Pittville Park. I thought about stealing it many times but at the end I didn’t let the intrusive thought win

My place in Cheltenham, 55 Pittville Lawn. The building always seemed to be in reparations but never saw any work done

Remember the geese? Four months later I found them again. They grew up a lot

Cheltenham bus stop with time schedule

Five months without a haircut and getting a little bit sad cause I knew my time in the UK was ending. Duck making an appearance in the pic

Saying goodbye to Pittville lawn, a quiet street where my favourite convenience store in the whole UK is

Cilfrew, Wales

For my last two weeks in the UK I decided to go to the middle of nowhere. So I ended up in Cilfrew. Is so middle of nowhere that is difficult to show on a map. So here is Swansea, the biggest city nearby, 18km away

Cilfrew main road. The bus only goes though this street 3 times a day Sunday to Friday. No bus on Saturdays

Cilfrew park. Notice signs tend to be in Welsh and then in English. Welsh people are very proud of their language

Wood Country Park

A tree with… that

View of Cilfrew from the top of the park. Yep, clouds in every direction

I went up there the following day, there was a better view

Road down to the airbnb

My messy room

Animals at the airbnb

Cutest bois

Walking down Oak View

Tabor Chapel, just found it by chance during a walk. I didn’t try to get into it, is a chappel in the middle of fucking nowhere, thanks but no thanks

Near the chappel there were the ruins of Cilfrew Colliery. It had a chill but also out of reality vibe. I was walking through middle of nowhere for a couple of hours and didn’t came across another human soul during the whole walk. If it wasn’t for the photos, I wonder if it was real

Bus stop on the A4109 Road

Couldn’t check Aberdulais falls

Pen y Fan, highest point in Wales

Yep, I went up the highest point in Wales. It is not a difficult climb, is more of a really long long walk

The top is up passing the clouds

Gotta go through the clouds

I’m oficially above the clouds

The view from the top

There was a doggo ready to greet me at the top

A sandwich has never been so tasteful before

Food truck at the end of the walk down trail

And here’s the end of all, Neath train station, waiting the train to London

And now what?

Não sei, mas vou precisar de algumas aulas de português