ENGLAND 2018

At the airport, ready waiting to take off!

I just noticed that no traveling has happened since the pandemic started, at least no traveling for us. The last post for this blog was back in 2019 when my husband and I took a trip to the Maya Peninsula, to Oaxaca, and to CDMX.

In lieu of the fact that no traveling has happened and realizing that there is no record of our 2018 summer trip, and also because I can't stand being home without traveling, I've decided that I'm going to post some highlights from our 2018 summer trip to London, England. 

From the porch of our apartment

We spent a month traveling throughout England, making London our home. Of course, nowadays the cheapest way to stay somewhere is through Airbnb and we found a lovely one-bedroom apartment in a very beautiful street.

Of course, as soon as we arrived and settled down, the first thing we did was finding food. And lucky us, we found a pub so close to our place that we visited such location several times during our stay.

I love the fact they had Cholula salsa!

One of the first things we did was a tour around the city. We did it twice, once by bus so we could see the city through the streets and the other was by boat, going up and down the River Thames.  

The Parliament (under construction)

The Tower Bridge (behind us)

The London Eye and County Hall

And of course, we navigated the city using the bus system, the tube, and walking, lots of walking.

Such a cool modern bus system

The Tube System reminded me of El Metro in Mexico

The background, OMG!

We really spend our days walking the city from point A to point B to point C and so on. We visited as many places as we could.

The Tower of London and others

Westminster Abbey

And of course, we couldn't miss the street markets, which are everywhere and each specializes on something. We simply went with the flow.

Sometimes the smell were too much

Other times they were not enough

And this is by far the best market of all!

Visiting different places on our own, just walking and taking our time was the best way to see the city.

Standing on one of the many bridges

The Eye

A park near our apartment

The views from St. Paul's Cathedral were breathtaking. But to do that we climbed so many stairs and yes, it was very windy and also scary, especially if you suffer from vertigo, like I do.

London was not the only city we visited in England, and England was also not the only country.