Still too lazy to find out how to get places myself, I have again booked a day tour, this time to west of London, and with a guide who sounds like Hugh Grant! (But unfortunately looks nothing like Hugh Grant)
I personally think that Kingscross Station is a masterpiece of architecture, I feel amazed every time I passby it.
First stop: Windsor Castle! Buckingham Palace is the official residence of the Queen, but she lives in Windsor Castle most of the time.
The flag is up, which means the Queen is in! Lemme go knock on her door and say G’Day later. 👋
Reached there before opening time just to find a long line of other tour groups already waiting. 😩
Finally! Released into the castle grounds, where is the Queen!?
Full speed ahead!
These well mowed lawns are just so British.
Some kind of royal ice cream… Dammit! Why is it closed!?
There’s no photography inside at all, so I have nothing to show. But let me just say that Queen Mary’s dollhouse is seriously impressive. It’s on a scale of 1:12 and features miniature items that actually work, like electricity and lifts and cars with engines that run. Of course inside the castle are other extravagant displays worth looking at as well, but they are your usual typical castle-y stuff, pretty cool if you haven’t already toured like 10 other castles within the same month. 😂
The typical English guard again, looks pretty cool standing under the arch windows.
Is this where the Queen is? It’s all guarded and stuff. I wonder what she does in her spare time? Can’t be having tea and walking in the gardens right? Maybe she likes to play PlayStation and read manga, yeaaaaah.
More well mowed English lawn.
The chapel was unfortunately inaccessible because it was Sunday and they have service, but apparently many kings and queens were buried there.
“Royal Shopping”, haha.
Apparently the trains at this Windsor station only go to this place called Slough, which the guide said is a place we don’t ever wanna go. 😂
The next stop is Bath! Bath is a city that was declared a World Heritage Site and was a spa site when the Romans occupied Britain during the first century, they built Roman baths amd temples. They have Roman bath archaeological ruins you can visit but I didn’t because it costed a whopping £30 and we were there for less than an hour, so I ended up following the tour guide on a walk around town.
I admire these huge carved wooden doors, must be so heavy to open so you have am excuse not to let people into your house. 😂
There was a hospital here during to the healing properties of spa therapy, but it’s moved further away from the city centre now.
Jane Austin lived in spa for a while although she never liked it, two of her novels were set in Bath.
The Circus, basically a circle of terraces forming a roundabout in the middle inspired by the Colosseum. The architect John Wood the Elder was a Freemason so he designed The Circus to have one road leading away from it, looking like a key from bird’s eye view.
Now John Wood the Elder’s son, John Wood the Younger tried to outdo his old man by building the Royal Crescent. Simply spectacular.
Bath became a city of fashion and aristocracy during the 16th century, basically it was where the rich people came on holidays.
This bridge was modeled after Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
We had a short lunch break at a village called Lacock, too short unfortunately. As you can see, it’s a picturesque little British village.
Here’s the pun where we had out lunch.
Here’s my cottage pie which isn’t even a pie at all, just minced beef and potato mash and cheese. Delicious, nevertheless.
I don’t know if you’ve guessed why I wanted to stay here longer. No? Well, this village is where they filmed A LOT of Harry Potter scenes in the first and second movie. This here is Godric’s Hollow.
Then I leeched onto these two Americans and left the tour group, paying £9.50 to go into the Lacock Abbey for 30mins.
Yes, great scenery isn’t it, but not worth £9.50… yet.
And here it is! We’ve found Hogwarts!!!
Hogwarts courtyard, see the movie scene here.
Room where the Mirror of Erised was kept, see the movie scene here.
Professor Quirrell’s classroom, with caldron and all, see the movie scene here.
Well, I can find a picture of the Hogwarts corridor, but I don’t think I need to show you one.
These corridors that surrounds the courtyard SCREAMS Hogwarts! 📢
There’s Hermione and Neville coming through, lol.
*Cues Harry Potter music.*
Ugh, had to leave after 30mins because the tour bus was waiting, so lame. I’ll be back!
Last stop: Stonehenge! Well, this is the visitor center anyways.
They give you this audio guide and it’s pretty interesting listening to how it’s built and why, I mean, it’s 5,000 years old!!!
There you go! 5,000 years of history right in front of the monitor in front of your eyes! 😂
I think the majesty of the Stonehenge comes from standing in this huge open grassland and staring at this huge stone structure built from 5,000 years ago, wow. Just wow.
Neolithic huts built by archaeologists that is supposed to mimic those ones built when the Stonehenge was built.
Inside of a hut, reminds me of.Wakka’s hut in Besaid FFX. 😂
There was this traffic jam in the motorway so didn’t get home until 9:30pm, but at least I got to see a great sunset from the bus!
Is Billy Elliot permanently on show in London? Sorry for the ignorant questions. 😂
Only just found out from the two Americans I was leeching onto there was a Platform 9¾ at Kingscross station, unfortunately there was a huge line and no one to take my picture anyway. 😦
Around ½ of The World in 80 Days 
