London + Manchester again

In the morning we caught the train from Rotterdam to Brussels. In Brussels we ate Belgian Waffles and sat around for our next train back to London which was the Eurostar. What is the Eurostar? Basically it's one of the fastest trains in the world. It reaches speeds of up to 186mph or 300km/h. It also goes under the English Channel.
Trying to get on the train was amazingly hard. As you're going from mainland Europe to England, you need to go through passport control. First check was by the Belgian authorities that gave us a sweet stamp in our passport with a train on it. Next was the British passport control. They grilled us by asking us about every facet of our lives including "how did you get your money", to which the obvious answer was 'saved up'.
Once boarding the train (and taking some photos) we were on our way and I LOVED IT. Speeding along through the countryside, flying past cars on the freeways, it was brilliant. They announced things such as when we're entering the channel tunnel etc, which made the trip pretty exciting.
On arrival in London, we arrived at the new Eurostar terminal at St Pancras station. The station looks really nice, and with so many Eurostar trains there I was loving it.

Next stop (after dropping off our bags) was a pub near Robby and Cam's place called 'The Eagle'. It was Cam's birthday the next day so he was having birthday dinner with his friends. It was nice to be back in London again. I really like London, so it felt very comfortable to just sit around in the pub there and talk to everyone. It was a great time had by all, telling stories of our various trips and things.

The next day Esther and I got up and caught the train to Manchester to visit her friends one more time before we left. The train we went on to get there was called a 'Pendolino', and was a high speed tilt train. Again I loved it. This one didn't go quite as fast at only 225 km/h, as that is the fastest track speed in England. It was great to go on a tilt train though, flying through the countryside and banking deep into the sharp corners.
On arrival in Manchester we met up with Esther's mate Miranda walked around town a bit, then went back to the dorms for cooking adventures via visiting people from her course and getting things organised to mail home.
They ended up making a chocolate cake, which I made whipped cream for. It took ages but didn't end up being used!
That night we went out to a place called 'Font' and just hung out with all Esther's friends that were still in Manchester. I had a really good time chatting to people and just having a good laugh, while Esther had a huge grin on her face the whole time because she could see her friends again.
Before the night was over we had some kebabs from the local shop that made everyone feel really sick. Hooray!

Next day we said goodbye to everyone (Esther really did not want to do this, understandably) and caught the train back to London. Esther was pretty sad on the way back, so that wasn't so fun. She really loved Manchester.
We took a detour via Harrods upon reaching London because Mum wanted a bag (they don't have the paper ones anymore Mum!). That place is HUGE. All the rooms are so ornately decorated and everything in the shop is really high quality. Really high price tag too, but the stuff there is amazing.
We spent our last night in London sitting around, repacking bags for the plane and just generally saying goodbye to Europe. We had a really good time in Europe, especially England and Germany. We'll miss them both very much.