✔️Hitch a ride on the top of the red double decker bus.
✔️Ride in a black LT TX1 hackney carriage a.k.a London Taxi.
✔️Ride a very steep escalator down into the Tube station.
✔️ Feel a blast of air on the platform as a very fast train comes though a tunnel.
✔️Keep saying “left, left left” as you and the kids walk on the pavement and stand on escalators.
✔️ Drink a pint of Camden Hells Lager and wonder what on Earth have I been drinking for so long.
✔️Listen to the barman say “I’m sorry, I apologize, but the kids cannot be in the pub after 6pm” and promptly take them out to the pavement while I finish my pint.
✔️ Stop in my tracks in awe in front of the Tower of London, the Royal Exchange, the statue in Piccadilly Circus, the palace of Westminster and the Westminster Hall.
✔️Get into the train with yellow poles (Circle line) and realize the train is running a District service (Green line) and rush out of the carriage before the doors close.
✔️Walk into Westminster abbey and feel puny and irrelevant under the soaring cathedral and imposing stained glass windows.
✔️Admire meticulously crafted gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens and promise to yourself to re-create this at home, in Lexington.
✔️Eat divine fish and chips with a pint of ale in an old pub - The George to be exact, claiming its origins to 1723 - served by very friendly barmen.
✔️Walk like a Londoner - rain or shine.
✔️Visit the Twining Tea shop, where the tea craze may not have begun but was certainly encouraged.
✔️Eat copious amount of Indian food, each meal better than the one before and think - What will I do when I go back to US?
✔️Make a conscious effort to use ‘lift’ and ‘flat’ in conversations along with an English accent.
✔️Walk through St. James’ Park, worrying about the violent pigeons but feeling peaceful in the green space in the middle of the city.
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