After spending the weekend in Edinburgh, I spent the rest of my inter-semester break exploring London and some towns nearby. The whole week was a blast -- I'd go back in a heartbeat! This post is pretty much a big picture dump, but some of the highlights from the trip were:
- Meeting up with a good friend who was in London for a night on her way to Italy
- Dining at Dishoom, the top-rated restaurant in London with >15,000 positive Yelp reviews
- Enjoying the musical, Once, starring Ronan Keating
- Spending an afternoon with my wonderful cousins
- Catching up with a DC friend who recently moved back to London
- Wandering through Portabello Market near Notting Hill
- Having afternoon tea with some lovely folks
- Attending a British stand-up comedy show
- Tasting legit English scones, fish and chips, and meat pies
- Exploring Windsor Castle
- Visiting Bath
- Wandering around Cambridge
Hanging out in London
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| Cousins!! |
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| Dishoom...fantastic Indian food! |
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| Mmmm Dishoom... |
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| Up on the set of Once during intermission! |
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| Portabello mushrooms for sale at Portabello Market! |
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| Afternoon tea...inside a hotel with stained glass windows saying NY Deli? (We were confused too.) |
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| Hungarian desserts, tea sandwiches, and scones with clotted cream...yum! |
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| Excited for fish 'n chips! |
Solo Day Trip to Windsor Castle
Solo Day Trip to Cambridge
Group Day Trip to Bath
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In front of the Royal Crescent
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| Photo courtesy of Charlotte :) |
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| Fantastic lunch in Bath |
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| Abbey at Bath |
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| View of the Abbey from inside the Roman Baths museum |
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| Ancient Roman Baths! |
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| Very informative tour of the Roman Baths! |
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| Tasting the spring water feeding the Roman Baths |
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| Sharing a meat pie at a pub in Bath before heading back to London! |
So that's my picture tour of the UK! I'm actually posting this while I'm off on another trip, this time to Croatia. Yes, we have vacation again after just a week of class. And yes, I agree that it's totally crazy. But since this year off (mini-retirement, as a friend once put it) is about not just studying French but also traveling as much as I possibly can, I can't help but take advantage of it. Lots of pictures to come!
