Hey!
So here we are at our last destination, London. I absolutely loved London and would even consider living there. The city is definitely very similar to North America or at least more similar than Israel or India and we just had an amazing time in London. We did a couple of really cool things in London, the first being that we took two walking tours. My mom had heard that people really loved these tours and they were highly recommended to us. The first one we took was my favourite and it was somewhat of a ghosts/writers of London tour. We walked around mostly Westminster listening to our Tour Guide read excerpts from books, talk about the many stories from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also recommend many books for us to read ( Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson which I’m reading right now) We also had the best guide who was an older woman, much shorter than me with a red hat that you could barely see while she was walking ahead. I really loved this tour and found it so interesting and intriguing even though by the end of the tour I could barely feel my toes. The second tour we took was a London City Tour, which was pretty much a tour of all the main sites in London. We started in Westminster again and saw the Big Ben, (which isn’t actually the tower, just the clock inside!) Westminster Abbey, the Parliament Building, Buckingham Palace (we got the chance to see the end of the changing of the guard) and many other sites. Later that day we went to see the Tower of London which was by far my favourite visit. We took a tour of the many towers with a hilarious guide! He told us so many gruesome stories as well as many funny ones too. We also went to see Harrods which I absolutely loved! They have everything there, I wouldn’t even mind being locked up and just living in Harrods for the rest of my life! We also got to do some great shopping in London, since it’s one of the many things to do there! We went up to Oxford street and to Carnaby street which was a very hippie area in the 60’s. Our last day in London we walked around and took a short visit to the National Gallery, which had extraordinary pieces! My mom kept on finding different famous artists just on our way out! At times though, I would sit down and start reading the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde which we had just gotten at Hatcher’s (One of the oldest bookstores in London and one of the bookstores that sold to the Royal family) while we were walking around and stopping into shops. Back to the Gallery, when we walked into one of the first rooms there was a huge Georges Seurat painting on the wall titles Bathers at Asniè res. In this painting the grass was painted with different colours, each back was curved and arched and no one seemed considerably happy but for some reason I really love it. I loved how they were all looking somewhere we couldn’t see, it drew you in and made you even more curious about the painting. Later in the evening, we did what I found as my favourite thing in London, we went to see the Musical Wicked! I had heard and had listened to Wicked before but seeing in was so much fun! We had pretty good seats and were in the front though when the lights go down everyone moves around if there are empty seats so we moved towards the middle and really got to see everything going on. It was so much fun seeing a musical, especially in one of the best cities to see them! My mom even got tickets for us to see another musical with my friend since we loved Wicked so much and thought it was so much fun! I would definitely recommend seeing a musical, especially Wicked if you’re touring the city. I really fell in love with London and was my second favourite destination on our trip after Mumbai, I don’t know if I’d want to live in Mumbai though but it definitely was different! London has such great fashion and culture and really reminds me of New York City. I loved London and I am definitely going back in the future!
