Day 2 in London

My grandmother and I woke up In our hotel, ate breakfast from a local cafe called "Pret A Manger". After that, we got our day bags ready and walked to Leicester Square where we had a Harry potter tour of London planned for that afternoon. Throughout the tour, We saw many of the places in London where scenes in the harry potter movies were filmed.
The place where the original leaky caldron was filmed at in the first Harry Potter movie.
Duck Island Cottage in Saint James park

Amazing tulips in Saint James Park 

Danish pancakes for lunch, apple, and bacon.

Globe of the constellations In the British Museum.

This is the most famous chess set in the world called the Lewis chessmen

The real Rosetta stone in the British museum

Peace of the Parthenon in Athens taken by the British In London



A Moai from Easter Island in the Pacific ocean.
Golden bar of chocolate after the museum



The restaurant we had dinner at after the British Museum

Comments

  1. Greg NadeauApril 13, 2017 at 12:47 PM

    Excellent pictures. Keep 'm coming!

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  2. RogerApril 13, 2017 at 11:04 PM

    Charley, I'm glad to find out you can get a good hamburger in London. That's very important. But I'm concerned about Baba and that steak with blue cheese pie. It sounds like she's well on her way to adding fifteen or so pounds. Your Harry Potter tour must have been a joy. People sometimes take Sherlock Holmes tours, with ground zero being the place where Holmes is supposed to have lived, 221B Baker Street. When Miriam and I honeymooned in London, 1987, we took a Jack The Ripper tour. The tour began and ended in Whitechapel, where The Ripper committed his homicides, five in all. Whitechapel hadn't changed much over the years. Midway through the tour, a drunk, a huge hulk lying on the sidewalk, threatened us, which lent a measure of verisimilitude to the experience. I don't think the drunk was a shill working for the tour company, but you can't be sure of anything nowadays.

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  3. KirstenApril 14, 2017 at 8:41 AM

    Charlie - wonderful! I love the British Museum and your food choices were spectacular.

    Will you make us all Danish pancakes?

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  4. Kerri LoriganApril 15, 2017 at 11:59 AM

    I'm curious about what you liked most at the British Museum?

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