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Avoiding the heat EU tour
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- Jan 4, 2024, 9:29pm
- 🌧 8 °C
- Altitude: 44 m
- England Greater London Fitzrovia BT Tower 51.522048, -0.13815551°31’19” N 0°8’17” W
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Platform 9 3/4
January 4 in England ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
We awoke early this morning and said goodbye to Edinburgh which had been our faithful home for the past 2 weeks. We boarded a fancy train which gave us breakfast and some hot drinks on our 5 hour journey to London.

After arriving at Kings Cross we headed across town to drop our bags at our current accommodation as we couldn't check in yet and went on a journey for lunch.

We stumbled across a Amazon Fresh which was a grocery store linked to your Amazon account and has no checkouts, it just tracks where you are in store and what you pick-up, it was a surreal and scary experience after we left getting an email pointing out that we had been in the store for 3:41 minutes and charged for the one thing we bought.

We stopped off at a ramen/soup shop where the server thought Bec was deaf and Phill was signing at her, whereas he was just being a bully.

We went for a walk to get our steps up before finally checking in to our accommodation, where we rested as we're both still sporting lovely crackly coughs.

A trip to Lidl was made for the next few nights dinners before relaxing and planning our day out tomorrow!

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Traveler Not a bad price, even given the exchange rate
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Traveler Yeah! This is in Lidl though. Definitely more expensive elsewhere
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Traveler We have Lidl close by in Spain, love it
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Avoiding the heat EU tour
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- Jan 5, 2024, 10:19pm
- ☁️ 6 °C
- Altitude: 42 m
- England Greater London Fitzrovia BT Tower 51.522166, -0.13798851°31’20” N 0°8’17” W
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Day 124
Bring us a shrubbery!!
January 5 in England ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Today didn't go as expected. We had planned on exploring the natural history museum as we had missed it last time we were in London, but as mentioned in a previous entry we have both been feeling pretty average and Bec woke up this morning feeling (and looking) like death.

So we enjoyed the included breakfast in the cafeteria - we're staying in yet another student uni accommodation, went to the room and relaxed until we scrounged up enough motivation and tissues to go for a little walk outside.

We didn't go anywhere in particular, just wandered and got lost looking around this enormous city.

After a while we got back, drank some tea while watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail and relaxed.

We made a quick trip up the road to Boots for some medication and then proceeded to walk around the halls as it was raining to hit our step count.

Step count: 10.1kRead more
Traveler Sorry to hear you’re both ( especially Bec) ain’t feeling good. Hope you’re both better soon 😘😘 xx
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Traveler Hope you're feeling better after a rest
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- Jan 6, 2024, 9:58pm
- ☁️ 4 °C
- Altitude: 42 m
- England Greater London Fitzrovia BT Tower 51.522185, -0.13801451°31’20” N 0°8’17” W
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Tea time
January 6 in England ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
This morning started with another included breakfast and then going back to the room for a while to rest. We're feeling a bit better today but still are on the road to recovery (which is rapidly shrinking...

We only ventured out once today, for our last afternoon tea! It was a bit of a walk away, so we got to enjoy some more of London's scenery. The cafe was near the famous Baker St from Sherlock Holmes, so we gave it a quick look on the way to our lunch/dinner.

We went to a nice place called the Potting Shed, which while not being in an actual shed, was under street level, which was a bit novel for us!

The afternoon tea itself was good! While their little sandwiches were a bit of a letdown, the scones, cakes, and of course, tea was really good!

After leisurely eating, we took an equally leisurely stroll through Regent's Park before getting back to our room to continue our recovery!

Step count: 10.9kRead more
Traveler Looks like portmerion china, so lovely
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Traveler Sooo cute
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Traveler It was very cute designs too, they kinda looked like germ animals 🤣
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Traveler UK September 2017
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- Sep 7, 2017, 10:34pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 44 m
- England Greater London Fitzrovia BT Tower 51.52088, -0.1383851°31’15” N 0°8’18” W
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London
September 7, 2017 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Great few days in London hosted by Cathy & David and their cats. So much to see and do. Took in the Tate Gallery and the Bankside. A stroll around Kew gardens was good for the soul.
Traveler So many new buildings along the Thames
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Traveler So many new views ...
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Traveler And they are still building!
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