So it is day four here in London and I am in love with this city. Joe is not as impressed as I am, but I still have a few days to make her fall in love. I always thought that I would get homesick when flying to a new country but with London it's different. The people here are just like in Linköping, they are being really helpful and they are making us feel welcome. On the first day at the hotel we met a couple, Michelle and Ty. They live here and work at the hotel restaurant, we immediately clicked and they have been our company since. Joes first worry was if we should rent a car or see  London by foot. When arriving in London we quickly realized that we should have rented a car, but thanks to our new friends we discovered that the London Underground was much easier and cheaper. It reminded me of my first time in Stockholm with the subway, as long as you look on the map you will manage to travel without any problems. The only difference is that there are a lot more people here and more places to go to . When I stood on the escalator to go down to the tube I could hear noises, all kind of noises. Some of them were sounds I recognized and some of them were new. But they weren't scary noises, it was noises that made me want to run down the escalator to see what it was, and so I did. As I mentioned before, there is a lot of people in London so as soon as I got underground I saw a big crowd standing in a circle clapping and cheering. Walking towards there I could see someones legs spinning over the crowds heads, and I quickly realized that it was some sort of performance. Just like it is in Stockholm, people are welcoming that kind of performance but here in London the crowd actually participated and started to dance with the actors. When the night came our friends surprised us by taking us to a club called Rhythm Factory. They said that if we are going to visit London, we have to experience London by night too. Coming in to the club I quickly realized I had never heard that kind of music before. While Joe and Michelle went to buy us some drinks me and Ty stood at the corner of the dance floor. Ty looked at me and started to laugh, apparently I looked confused while figuring out who was performing. I think Ty was more confused than me when he realized that I had never heard that kind of music before. He told me it was called Grime which originated from another London genre called Garage. It made me think of the nightlife in Sweden and its music, and what Sweden have actually contributed to music around the world. The first thing that came in to my mind was Avicci, I think it was because some of the tunes reminded me of his music with the fast tempo. Sweden has always been open minded when it comes to music and music from all over the world is being played through our speakers. The downside with Sweden is that we are sometimes behind when it comes to new things or in this case old things. Genres like Grime and Garage have never been as popular in Sweden as they are in London. Yesterday we decided to go to a museum. I actually didn't know that London had that many museums, all from Science Museum to V&A museum which is a museum full of all kinds of art. I asked our friends which museum was the most educational but also entertaining at the same time because I easily get bored when it's just information and nothing that catches my eye, and they suggested The British Museum. When we arrived I did not think it would be that big but it was huge, and it reminded me of Acropolis in Greece with the big pillars. Walking in the first thing my eyes could see was the glass ceiling and I almost forgot about the actual museum. We all knew it would take hours to see all the rooms so we took a map of the museum and decided to just go to a few of the rooms. It wasn't that hard for us to decide which exhibitions we wanted to see because the museums in Sweden don't have that much to offer, we only have a few technical and nature museums. But at the British museum we had the opportunity to study both parts from Europe such as Ancient Greece as well as Assyrian and Babylonians in the Middle East. The British museum is one of the biggest museum in the world and they have one man to thank that for, Sir Hans Sloan. He decided to sell his collection and in 1753 it became the foundation of the museum.



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These two links provide us with information about the London Underground, it's system and how to use the tube and what you should think about while traveling. One site offers information about London for tourists and the company that provides us with this information is London and Partners and the other site is the official site for transportation in London made by the government.
Http://www.visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-around-london/london-tube
http://www.tfl.gov.uk
http://www.londonandpartners.com/

These two links provide us with information about the British museum.  The first link is the official site for the British Museum, giving us information and its history, and the second link contains basic information about the museum and nearby places you can visit.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
http://www.timeout.com/london/museums/british-museum

These two links provide us with the history of the genre 'Grime'. The first link is written by the author Dan Hancox that works for The Guardian which is a well known paper in the UK. He often writes about music and pop culture, so does his colleague Johnny Dee which provided us with the second link.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/06/a-history-of-grime
http://www.theguardian.com/music/picture/2015/apr/24/grime-dizee-rascal-wiley-infographic