The Part Where He Goes To Central London

(Note: As of time of publishing this I am back home and no longer in London. In the following days I'll publish more posts about the trip.)

Although I don't usually like going to very touristy places on trips (not because they are bad but usually just due to how busy they are) but they are sometimes unavoidable. That being said, here is some of what I saw on Central London!

The first part we visited was the Tower of London, which I honestly have some conflicting feelings about. Really, the main thing about the tower is that it is just an exhibition of things like 95% of the time, however there were some interesting artifacts and occasionally fun interactive things that spiced it up.

Most of it is definitely just looking at "this is x that belonged to this person" or "was used for this thing". That's fine as that is pretty much how most museums are, however due to the huge amount of people it was hard to really spend a lot of time looking at one thing.

I do love Ravens though! I was very happy to see them. :)

After this, of course, we also went through Tower Bridge which is right next to it! Although by this point I was extremely tired so we didn't actually take the tour, and just walked across it.

I do really like Tower Bridge to be honest, it not only looks great but does actually have a lot of significance for the city! Being the widest bridge in the city and being an architecture and engineering marvel, as they had to find a way to make a bridge that could allow road traffic to pass through with ease but still let boats through.

I seriously recommend checking out Jay Foreman's video about it, it's very good! And in general all of his videos are excellent.

The next day we went near Buckingham Palace, which more than anything excited me due to its park! Which was just nice to walk around in. This may not seem like a lot, but genuinely, I love having very walkable easily accessible spaces around, and this was definitely one of them.

Our next stop was the whole area surrounding Westminster Bridge, which includes the Big 🅱️en, the Houses of Parliament, London County Hall, and the London Eye (which we didn't go into and just walked around).

There were some very interesting things around this area! For example Parliament Square, which is a small green space around a bunch of important buildings which features many flags, including ones for every county! And although it was quite crowded, the area (excluding the bridge) did remain comfortably walkable.

As we walked north we came across New Scotland Yard as well, before arriving to out final main destination for the area: Trafalgar Square! The square is named after the Battle of Trafalgar that took place during the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the UK defeat the French and Spanish navies.

The largest monument of the square is Nelson's column, a monument commemorating navy officer Horatio Nelson who died during the war, but not before ensuring his nation's victory.

There are some other pretty things in the square too! Surrounding Nelson are four lion statues, and there are two fountains in the middle of the square! And also, the National Gallery is right behind all of this. Similar to Buckingham Palace (or at least its outside area) it is just a generally nice space to walk around and hang out!

And that's that! Around this area there's also a lot of theatres, and we actually saw a few plays during the trip, which were all really nice! But I might leave my thoughts on those for another time (someone should make a Letterboxd for plays).

As I said earlier, although I usually don't really enjoy heavily crowded touristy areas, these spaces in London were large and very walkable that I could still enjoy myself most of the time!

Again, these are some of the places which are almost like a requirement to visit in the city, so saying "I recommend them" isn't anything novel, but I can at least confirm that they do deserve their recognition!