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25/09/25 <-> 23/10/25
Went and stayed in England for about a month and this page is gonna loosely document what I got up to during that time.
25/09/25 - 26/09/25
For the first few days I kinda just roamed around Birmingham going anywhere that interested me. Said interest lead me to a Bandai store where more or less silently freaked out about seeing precure and doremi merch, even if it was just a gacha machine.
Went out to chinese restaurant too, it was pretty good but I probably should've gone for the fried rice over noodles. Tasted fine but it had this very sanitized feel to it for a lack of a better way to put it, overly fresh or something idk.
27/09/25 - Dublin
Went on a daytrip to Dublin with my sisters, it was pretty cool and is a really nice city to be honest, as a tourist anyway lol. Pretty much walked around a ton and did touristy stuff, also went bowling which was fun despite being terrible at it. Weather wasn't the best but I still enjoyed myself despite my fingers feeling frozen. On the plane there, I met an old man, whose names escapes me right now but, and I talked to him and he was a cool guy. I deteste myself for documenting exactly what we talked about but it was interesting. He mentioned travelling around in a campervan around Europe and being apart of a band during the 70s. I won't forgive myself for not writing down the name somewhere but when I searched it up, nothing relevant showed up, made me think about how many smaller music artists are only really known by the people who just so happened to see them at a gig or something.
Anyway, a buddy told me to checkout forbidden planet which was great rec since its a store full of nerd stuff and for it was like stumbling across the Library of Alexandria.
I'll put more photos related to this in the gallery.
28/09/25 - London
Tired as hell after Dublin but we went to London the day after. Met up with our brother after roaming in Borough Market and then proceeded to roam around some more until we had to go childhood neighbourhood to see cousins at a church. Naturally felt quite nostalgic walking those streets after such a long time.
29/09/25 - 02/10/25
Didn't have anything in particular planned for these few days so I either roamed around Birmingham New Street looking for any noteworthy stores or just relaxed inside. I also got the new camera I ordered, though I'll admit it felt a bit redundant since the new phone I got has a really good camera already. Almost forgot to mention that I met s guy called Jerry in the bandai store. He was a cool guy and taught me about the one piece card game.
03/10/25 - 05/10/25
Went back to London again, this time by myself. Walked around my old neighbourhood more thoroughly and passed by my old home. I don't know who lives there now but I hope they're taking care of it. Stayed at a friend's place for a night, it was nice seeing them again. Having folks you can reconnect even after not seeing them for so long is a good thing. Besides catching up, we played games and went out and stuff. I tried a VR headset for the first time too and that felt like an out of body experience that I couldn't quite comprehend.
After spending that I went to stay with my cousins for another singular night. Their area was super far and kinda coastal I guess. I didn't explore it much this time around but I do it a bit later on.
06/10/25
Spent the entire day going back to Birmingham. Did a crap ton of walking and ended up exploring Euston since I had some time to kill waiting for my train. Weather really good that day, thankfully, so it was a pretty nice day out. as per usual I hunted stores where find nerd or retro stuff and find some cool. Animetal was super duper overpriced though, it's almost comical.
07/10/25 - 10/10/25
Another stretch of days spent just relaxing, didn't do much other than the occasional stroll outside. 
Also finished Go princess precure around this time and I can say confidently that it's my favourite season even over heartcatch. I'll get a review done eventually, assuming I finish this before said review.
11/10/25 - 16/10/25 London once again
Final trip down there. Honestly a repeat of what I did before but I went around doing more things with my cousins I guess, explored a bit more too. In London, went to see both older brothers this time and it was rather surreal having all of us in one place again even if it was only for a little bit.
Also went out with my cousins to south end. In hindsight we kinda just walked to get something to eat and then walked back to return home but I really liked it there. Should've gotten more pictures of the sea but I compensated with some cool shots of graffiti I saw around there.
Lastly, I spent my final days there roaming around the neighbourhood on foot for an afternoon. Went back to the place I bought the previous Miku figurine and looked around thoroughly for stuff I might like and checked out the coastline before heading back.
Day after that I returned to Birmingham and that was that. Satisfied with what I did during that period time.
17/10/25 - 21/10/25 final days
Didn't really do much until the 21st where I took a looooooooooooooooooooong bloody walk around Birmingham since I'd be leaving the next day. Took a ton a pictures of course and visited every otaku/nerd store I had yet to visit, along with buying some dvds and checking out a park. I was really tired especially since I got a little lost on thr way back but it was a nice experience all in all.
That's just about all did during my time in Ingerland. Made some nice memories and I'm happy that I can make this page to document it all. If you're reading this thanks for sparing me your time.
