London baby!

So we finally managed to get to London! We've only been in the country for how long now? Anyway, the two of us left very early Tuesday morning and came back late Thursday night so we had a full three days to explore.

On the first day we saw Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and the parliament buildings (as in picture), the London Eye (we didn't go up in it, though), Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery - London collection of famous artworks-, Harrods, and Buckingham Palace. Westminster Abbey was so huge, but Big Ben was actually not as big as we thought it would be. Harrods was pretty cool, they had all these different themed rooms - like an Egyptian room. We wandered around for quite some time and got some cheese cake from their bakery - delicious!

Day two we went to the Globe Theatre, the Tate Modern, St. Paul's Cathedral, The British Museum, three comic book stores, and Whitehall Street. The Globe was cool, but shows don't start until - get this - May 4th! (Yes, the day after we leave.) The Tate was better than the National Gallery in our opinion - more art that was our taste probably - but we spent quite a whiel looking at many famous pieces. There were even a few Dali's there! (Troë's favorite) We thought Westminster Abbey was big, but it turns out that St. Paul's is much bigger. Some of the bottom was under construction though, so we couldn't see it in all it's splendor. We managed to find three comic book stores in close proximity, so we checked them out. All were quite different, and one was huge: It was a book store on the basement floor (including comic books, obviously) and the street level floor top was full of swag. Another store had a bunch of back issues and rare comics. It even had an issues of Amazing Spiderman #1 and Justice League of America #1.

Day three we walked to Notting Hill through Hyde Park and had lunch there, then back along Oxford street. We spent loads of time strolling along and went in and out of many stores (including the four different H&M stores on Oxford). That pretty much took all day, kind of a bit more relaxing for our last day, which was nice.

We still haven't seen Tower Bridge (up close anyway), nor did we see the London Tower. We are going back with a certain cousin who's coming to visit in a month though, so we didn't want to do everything.