Nothing Official Here: Saga de London

One evening, I got a chance to be in London’s biggest mall – Westfield Mall…

It has a gorgeous interior.

Noticed “All Saints” Store… it displayed a matrix of Sewing machines…

Elephants from Elephant Parade were placed there as well!

And of course, Starbucks!

Other evening, I had a good late night hangout with London gang at Tinseltown…
Its an amazing Milk-shake place. One has to book the table in advance!

One day, Anilbhai took me to Stratford – the birthplace of Williams Shakespeare.. It was raining for the first half of the day and too difficult to take any pictures at some of the historical houses like Anne Hathway’s cottage, Mary Arden’s courtyard, Hall’s croft and Nash’s house and New Place. But by the time we reached to Shakespeare’s birthplace, the rain had stopped and it was a clear sky.
This is a house in which Williams Shakespeare was born. Unfortunately, all I know about Shakespeare is that he was a great writer and he wrote some dramas like Romeo-Juliet, Hamlet etc… but I was excited to visit all these places. It was good time I had.

Finally, a day before I was to fly back to home, Jiten and Jal took me to a sightseeing tour of London through hop-on hop-off bus tour – the Big Bus Tour.

We boarded the bus from Hyde park and while we were waiting for the next bus to arrive, we had a quick look at the “Speaker’s corner” where anyone can come and speak about anything… Current speaker had a reasonable crowd in front of him. I was surprised that people in London do stop by to listen… maybe they have plenty of spare time to spend!

Some of the places we passed through this bus tour:

Thames River…

Trafalgar square… The famous place where people used to feed the pigeons… As these pigeons were creating too much liter, the authorities banned feeding them and flew all of them off.