Just touched down in London town . . .

While bro Charlie is here, we took a day trip to London to check out things out. It's been awhile since Bri and I had gone in to the city for a day. Charlie saw London briefly last summer with Mom & Dad, but the three of us wanted to go and check out some new stuff.

Right away we went to the north part of the city - St Regents Park/Hampstead/Camden area. Charlie wanted to find Abbey Road - where the Beatles recorded all of their albums in London. It's pretty easy to find and cool to be on the spot where their infamous walk across the zebra crossing is. It's hard to do yourselves though with all the traffic!

We were caught in the rain, so wandered aimlessly about for a bit, but trying to get to the London Zoo. On our way, we passed Lord's Cricket Grounds, which is a huge and famous stadium.

Made it to London Zoo via Regent's Park (the largest in London) and saw lots of unique animals. The London Zoo as been around for a long time, so the facility itself is ageing, but the animals are well taken care of and are really amazing.

For you Harry Potter fans, in the first movie, Harry talks to a snake at the London Zoo and it was filmed right where Charlie is standing here in the Reptile House.

We then continued to Camden Town to check out the Camden Market and Camden Locks area. It's a really young and happening town, which was fun to see. A couple different types of market areas to walk around and see the wares. Lots of it has become the cheap clothes, but at the Camden Locks many of the booths were the better quality handmade crafts. Stopped for a pint of course, and a really nice pub tucked away. Then made reservations for dinner at a Greek place back down in the city centre/West End district. That was perfect, so that we didn't have to roam around looking for a place to eat.

We then walked around Picadilly Circus/Leceister Square and Trafalgar Square before din-din. Dinner was very enjoyable, but we realized the Greek place in Summertown by our flat was probably even better food! After dinner we stopped for hot cocoas and walked through China Town. Luckily we caught one of the last trains back to Oxford and were really tired once we finally made it to the flat. Another successful trip to the big city! Next weekend: Bath!