Why am I singing the Newsies, you ask? It has absolutely nothing to do with what we did in London today, but I found out two of my flatmates love Newsies as much as I do, so we've been singing it all day long. For the past two days.
Anyway, back to London. This morning we took a walking tour around the neighborhood we're living in, and found out some well-known literary folks lived in the area including Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Charles Dickens for a brief time.
We found the Peter Pan statue in Hyde Park, which I had been looking forward to seeing for a while. This statue is located in the exact spot where Peter lands after flying out of his nursery in The Little White Bird. This statue was actually secretly erected in the night and "magically" appeared on May 1, 1912. How cute is that?
After the park, we toured through Kensington Palace, and got to see dresses of the queen, and Princess Margaret and Diana. We also got to learn more about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which we really enjoyed.
Then we went to one of my favorite things we have done so far, which was afternoon tea at the Orangery. We got delicious finger sandwiches, scones, and desserts. I got a yummy wild berry herbal tea, and we had an awesome time pretending to be proper.
So, as I was daintily sipping my tea, my friend told me I should eat a whole sandwich in one bite. Little did she know that if someone tells me to do something, it doesn't take much convincing to get me to actually do it. So after sneakily looking around to make sure none of the cute waiters were watching (every single waiter in this place was so very attractive. It must have been a prerequisite for working there), I stuffed the sandwich in my mouth, while my friend documented the whole thing. Because why be proper at tea when you can act like children?
We also ate the sugar cubes that were supposed to go into our tea, but I won't talk about that.
Later that evening, a few of us went on a walk down the Thames River. We were in search for some literary surprises that I will talk about in another post, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. Spoilers.
We passed the Australia House, which was a filming location for Harry Potter. They used the interior for Gringotts. But just the foyer. They don't actually have roller coaster-like contraptions that take you to your bank vault. Or dragons. They don't have those either.
We got some drinks and sat on the edge of the river and watched the sun set. It was a lovely evening, and even though we got a tad lost on the way home, we had a fantastic time.
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| Orwell based the Ministry of Truth off of this building at the Museum of London in 1984. |
After the tour, we headed off to Hyde Park and Kensington Palace.
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| Our photography focus was to capture water. |
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| But Peter, how do we get to Neverland? |
After the park, we toured through Kensington Palace, and got to see dresses of the queen, and Princess Margaret and Diana. We also got to learn more about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which we really enjoyed.
Then we went to one of my favorite things we have done so far, which was afternoon tea at the Orangery. We got delicious finger sandwiches, scones, and desserts. I got a yummy wild berry herbal tea, and we had an awesome time pretending to be proper.
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| Doesn't this look delicioso? |
We also ate the sugar cubes that were supposed to go into our tea, but I won't talk about that.
Later that evening, a few of us went on a walk down the Thames River. We were in search for some literary surprises that I will talk about in another post, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. Spoilers.
We passed the Australia House, which was a filming location for Harry Potter. They used the interior for Gringotts. But just the foyer. They don't actually have roller coaster-like contraptions that take you to your bank vault. Or dragons. They don't have those either.
We got some drinks and sat on the edge of the river and watched the sun set. It was a lovely evening, and even though we got a tad lost on the way home, we had a fantastic time.
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