656. Eurotrip Day 1 of 28 | Arriving in London!

Hello from London! It's currently 1:30am here. We arrived in London early "yesterday" morning. We flew from Toronto Pearson Airport to London Gatwick (which is very inconvenient I now realize). From there we took the Gatwick Express into the city and then a cab to my hotel. We were both so exhausted by the time we arrived with jetlag and all.
My boyfriend stayed here most of the day then flew to Spain. I am always used to travelling/exploring alone and love it, but now that he's gone I feel a strange sense of loneliness lol. I guess this is a good thing though. I'll be going later this week to meet him again..then we will continue our month-long trip around several countries in Europe. So excited!! Besides Hong Kong, London is the city I've travelled/spent the most time in. So coming back I got a feeling of familiarity. All the other cities on this trip will be ones I'm visiting for the first time ever though.

Coincidentally my friend Anouk is also in London these few days so we will be meeting up again. Every time we meet up it's in a different city. One of these days I'll actually make it to Luxembourg..hahah.

I'm going to try my best to do these daily blog posts again, or at least every other day. I really enjoy doing them when I travel, looking back and writing about the day to look back on in the future. I am working the same as I do in Toronto though (I work online/remotely) so I am still going to be pretty busy. Hopefully I will have a bit of time at the end of every night to do this. I will post a maximum of 10 photos per day then the rest I'll post when I get back to Toronto. Which - as you may know with my Asia blog posts - will be quite a lengthy process.


It was my first time flying with British Airways. Overall the flight was pretty good. Just the air in the cabin was super dry. I managed to sleep a little which I *never* usually do on flights.


I'm staying near Oxford Circus this time. After checking in to the hotel we took a nap for awhile then went out in search of food. Since we were so hungry we kind of chose the first decent one we saw. We ended up at Bodean's BBQ which turned out to be very good.




If you know me, you'll know that flat shoes/sneakers are extremely rare for me to buy. I decided to buy a new pair for this trip so I got these Puma ones. I really love the colour. They match my socks colour pretty well too hahah.



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365. London | Trafalgar Square + Piccadilly Circus

Its been about two and a half months since I've been back in Toronto now, and I'm already wishing I was travelling again. Near the end of my trip I was actually looking forward to leaving London, but now when I look back on these photos I miss it so much. I hope to go back again soon..possibly in the Spring? Here's some photos I took of Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus (& surrounding areas). I loved walking around those areas.






















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356. London | Snapshots

The quintessential shot of London. + Random shots of: Covent Garden, Laduree, Regent Street, the amazing Burberry flagship, Buckingham Palace, etc. The more I look back on my vacation photos the more I miss this city.

Buckingham Palace: During my first few nights in London I stayed at a hotel by Victoria Station, which was a short ~10min walk to Buckingham Palace (~20min to Big Ben). One night I took a late night walk there and it was pretty deserted. Definitely better to avoid the crowds.

















The Burberry flagship on Regent Street is one of the most beautiful stores I've ever been in! It's huge like a department store with a lot of SAs. I was only able to take a few discreet photos with my cell.






Happy to find a Joe & The Juice. Reminded me of Copenhagen.




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