Friday was a long but super fun day! We were up and at 'em at 6am. Just enough time to get ready for the day, stop by Starbucks for coffee/muffins, catch the taxi to the bus station, and get on the 7:50 bus to London!
A sunny beautiful day for England - Lisa and her group were so lucky to be here during this weather as it's absolutely amazing and unique for these parts.
We met up with her Weslyan group at University College of London at 11am where the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham is located. Unique thing to visit for a bunch of psychologists and myself. Then across the street for a pub lunch at the Bentham pub.
One of the highlights of the day for us both was the next stop - visiting the Freud home museum. Wow, what an insight to the amazing homes in the famous area of London (Hampstead were celebrities Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law live) and mainly into the life of an extraordinary scientist and psychologist of the day - Sigmund Freud. He actually only lived in the house for his last year of life, as he was escaping from Nazi Austria. Our group also was in the presence of a journalist who lived in London and was friend's with Freud's daughter and attended kindergarten with her. He was visiting the home after 40 years and said it looked very similar to as he remembered.
We enjoyed free time after the museum, so Lisa and I left the group for more exploring and shopping! We were close enough to the fun, funky area of Camden for more shopping and checking out the London scene. We ran into some very nice blokes from Australia and chatted with them for a few minutes while enjoying our refreshing drinks while overlooking the Camden Locks in the sun.
We grabbed dinner at an easy Chinese buffet, which was fun and then on to possibly catch the Jack the Ripper ghost walking tour!
The tour didn't start until 10pm though. Lisa was so tired and I had to catch a bus back to Oxford. So we had permission to miss out, and I got Lisa back to the hotel. They were leaving for Paris bright and early the next morning so she has some packing to do. I caught my bus home and was at my Oxford flat by about 1am.
We had so much fun and it was so special and such a joy to have cousin Lisa here! We really enjoyed just the quality cousin and girl time together - I hope she will always remember our great time together!
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