Day -1, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 & Day 4
For day 5, we went to another market called Camden market. I realized I didn't have a photo of it anywhere... The market was pretty average, but I bought some souvenirs for my friends there.
After that we headed to Tate Modern, which is an art gallery in front of the famous bridge in Harry Potter. Sad to say I don't appreciate art very much, but at least there are some explanations on the wall which helped a bit.
An interesting exhibit (must be, cus that's my only photo of the musuem lol)
The modern looking bridge!
A photo I took while on the bridge. You can see the tower bridge from this photo if you look carefully!
After that we went to watch Jerseyboys... which I didn't really enjoy. I should have known at first glance because almost everyone in the audience was >50 years old. I don't even know the group "The Four Seasons", who was really famous in the 1960s, much less their songs. We should have spent the money on Wicked or Lion King instead! But oh well...
That was the end of Day 5. It was a meh kind of day.
On Day 6, we signed up for the Windsor, Bath & Stonehenge (all of which were at the outskirts of London) tour using Viator. I thoroughly enjoyed myself because we just sat on the coach and waited to arrive at our destination instead of looking for directions everywhere. The tour was quite pricey though, as with all Viator tours, but I would say it's worth it because they managed to cover so many attractions in a day. Downside is we couldn't spend more time in each place because we had a tight schedule to adhere to.
Our first stop was Windsor castle:
Windsor castle is the Queen's weekend home. It's a good alternative to visit given that the Buckingham Palace is out of bounds unless you're a VIP of the royal family. The weather was perfect that day with a blue sky. Picturesque.
We were able to enter the State Apartments (where the royal family entertain their guests) and the St George's Chapel. All the rooms in the State Apartments were beautifully adorned by paintings, chandeliers and tapestries. It was all very royal looking.
We were quite lucky to chance upon the changing of the guards ceremony as well. In the Windsor
castle, we can take photos with the guards. Meanwhile in London, it was not allowed after some tourist tried to assault one of the guards and to protect himself, the guard knocked the tourist unconscious.
After Windsor, we headed to Bath. This town has the only natural hot spring in the UK.
Some church nearby
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Roman baths. It was built when London was under Romans' rule
Other than the roman bath we visited, we walked around in the quaint little town.
Then it was time to visit the highlight of the trip, Stonehenge! I was so excited!!!
Stonehenge stood somewhere out of nowhere. Our bus stopped nearby and we took another bus up to look at the Stonehenge up close.
Photo taken from my iPhone, enhanced by VSCOcam.
It's pretty cool isn't it. Some ancient people built this massive structure and now nobody knows what is it for. Some people it is to worship the gods, others say it's to tell time. But no one really knows... How did they even build such a massive structure in ancient times??
On the other side, there were sheeps grazing on the grass. The grass looks so green! Can I live there pls?
With that, we headed back to London...
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