Those 14 hours of sleep served us well. Once we’d eaten breakfast and gathered our stuff, we headed out towards Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. It was a 30 minute walk exploring the streets on our way there. It’s pretty obvious when exploring where the tourist spots are with all the cameras, selfie sticks, and multiple languages being spoken. We wandered across the bridge and walked the exterior of the tower, reading the various notes about it’s history. Jared did comment how he can understand how the characters in video games are able to scale the walls of castles with all the bricks, rocks, and gutters that stick out...
From the tower, we made our way to Piccadilly Circus to walk the street and “shop”. It was interesting seeing the various stores we recognized next to ones we didn’t. Though our favorite, and the main one we went into, was the 7 level toy store with multiple lego displays and many replica items from the big fantasy movie/tv series - Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, etc.
From Piccadilly Circus we walked our way to Trafalgar Square which wasn’t hosting an event anymore. We got to see a giant Pikachu and a number of chalk artists at work there. One our way there we also passed a fantastic musician out singing and playing guitar. We got to hear her say she’s a Canadian musician who was currently filming a movie (we did see two guys with a pretty nice camera when we’d walked towards her). Unfortunately we haven’t been able to find what we thought her name was online.
Once we’d walked around the square we ventured into the National Gallery since it was free admission. It was impressive how large and realistic some of the paintings were to us.
From Trafalgar Square we took our first ride on the tube of the day and made our way to Kingscross Station so Dana could shop at the little Harry Potter store and Jared could see what the giant station looks like in person. After doing so, we made our way back to the hotel while it started to rain a bit and was cooling down. We chose to eat at a small pizza place near the hotel that was very good, but we did have to cut our own pizzas, which Jared said kind of put a damper on the quality of the food. In search of frozen yogurt for Dana, we wandered down to the river again but had no luck finding the place google told us should be there. So while we were able to grab a pastry on the way back, we ended up pretty wet and cold before we returned to the hotel. The good news is, our new rain jackets, daypack, and water proof shoes worked!
That logged over 10 miles for the day and with sore feet we spent the rest of the night relaxing in the hotel. Another 10 hours of sleep and we’re ready for today, which includes the Harry Potter Warner Brothers set tour this afternoon!
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