London London London!

Last updated on 19 March 2025

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Yes, I went to London again. But can you blame me!? What a city! I absolutely love London. My dad had to go for a work thing, so I tagged along, and even though the coach had to take an hour detour along the way because there was a crash on the M4 (again), so it took 4 hours to get there, not 3, and I got stuck in a protest outside Parliament, it was a very enjoyable day! I met up with Erin, from e-elise etc (my first blogger meet up!), and we went to the aquarium, the Book Market, and wandered through the streets of London in the afternoon. Because I did so much, I thought I’d split the day into several posts (with a very exciting nail-art related post coming in November. More on that later!), because it’s all too much for one post.

I arrived at about 11am, and jumped on the tube to Westminster station, where I was meeting Erin a little bit later. Although I had seen Big Ben and the Parliament buildings before, I hadn’t really had a good look, or walked around it at all, so that’s what I did. Despite the clouds in these pictures, it was actually quite a nice day, and quite warm compared to the weather here in England recently. It only rained once the entire day, and only for about 5 minutes.

Anyway, had a bit of a wander, and then walked passed Westminster Abbey. I didn’t go in, but I took a picture of two from the outside (above pic), and just when I was about to head back to the station, there was a sudden explosion of police men and people in bright yellow vests, and a protest march appeared out of no where. The road was blocked off and I couldn’t get through. It was only when I saw the signs they were holding that I realise that they were basically all the schools in London and their teachers marching for whatever it is that teachers march for. And of course, I knew that there was a strike going on yesterday, because my 10 year old sister was off school. But it didn’t even occur to me that, while I was outside parliament in London, that there were be actual people marching their little hearts out. So that was interesting.

After finally getting across the road, I met Erin, and it wasn’t nearly as awkward as I thought it was going to be (Haha! I was a bit nervous, to be honest; how do you greet someone you ‘know’, but you’ve never met before?!), and we walked across the bridge to the aquarium! Look out for those fishy pictures coming soon!

After the aquarium we went to the Book Market under Waterloo Bridge, which I’ll post about soon too, and then we crossed the river and wandered through the streets for the rest of the afternoon. We went to Chinatown to get some Bubble tea, saw the M&M shop, and eventually made our way back to the station, via the edge of St James Park (yay squirrels!!) to go our separate ways.

So yes! More to come, so do look out for those posts! I’m super excited about the fish, so that will probably be very soon! I’ll leave you with this totally unedited picture of the sunset in St James Park, and a reminder that it’s the weekend!!