Like last year, my first destination was London, where I was going to stay for a week at a friend couple’s apartment. My plane took off on the 2nd and I got to London the next day at around 3PM. Overall I had a really pleasant experience with my flights (I had a stop in Frankfurt airport and then a smaller plane ride of two hours to London), despite traveling next to two newborn babies. For some reason I ALWAYS get babies sitting next to me on planes! It must be because I choose the space specially designed for families with babies because it has more room for the legs. Totally not regretting my decision though, because I usually don’t sleep on the plane and, if I do, I don’t hear the babies/kids at all LOL.

This day had been already planned because I was going to the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour again ♥ I had a blast, and I did take a lot of pictures, but that is coming in another post! 😀

During the morning, I decided to walk around the City and went to visit Westminster Cathedral that I hadn’t visited on my last visit. It’s by far the most beautiful church I’d ever been to! St Paul is amazing, but Westminster is just… I don’t know, I liked it more! They started playing a song right when I walked in and it definitely added up to the whole experience — the acoustics of the place are astounding!

Part of the reason why I like old churches and buildings are the things that happened there CENTURIES ago — weddings, coronations, in the case of the Abbey people buried that are SO old… to me it’s really extraordinary to think I’m stepping right where people from centuries past stepped on, had important conversations and celebrated at.

Equally amazing and important in history is the Tower of London, a sight I missed from the inside last year because I was so scared of a replica terrorist attack (if you remember well, last year there was an attack on the 3rd of July on Tower Bridge, and I avoided the area like the plague just in case).

Later in the evening I changed again, more formally this time, to have dinner at La Pont de la Tour which I highly recommend eating at and it’s not that expensive for the kind of place it is from the inside!

Didn’t do much on the last day; mostly relaxed at the apartment in the morning, watching on TV the Queen’s birthday celebrations (amazing!), and then went out for Portobello Market and Camden Town.