By: MJ + PJ
BUCKETED: Month Seven – South America & United Kingdom (December 2nd, 2018 to January 1st, 2019)
We exited South America on a jet plane headed north. It was a long flight and into what seemed a different world. The daylight hours and the weather at 50 degrees north were the opposite of where we had been at 50 degrees south.
It was a hectic month with many changes of plan and an effort to keep our expenses in check. Without the late in the month expenses of future transport tickets we would have averaged about USD$153.
Again the mode of transport was public overground and regional trains, the Tube, busses, walking and a few instances of driving in rural England. Driving was interesting having not done it for so long, and being on the opposite side of the road! We learned a lot about how these systems of transport work.
ARGENTINA
- Buenos Aires
- The Birra Lab
- San Nicolas district nightlife
ENGLAND
- Apsley Town Center
- Warner Brothers Harry Potter Film Studio
- King’s Cross Station (Platform 9 3/4)
- Leicester Square
- Christmas Market
- M & M Store
- LEGO Store
- London Christmas Lights Bus Tour
- Oxford Street Christmas Decorations
- SantaCon on Trafalgar Square
- The Swan
- London Eye walkby
- Westminster Christmas Market
- Harrod’s
- Toy Floor
- Food Hall
- Hamley’s Toy Store
- Kensington Palace
- Princess Diana Exhibit
- Hyde Park
- The Hops Pole Tavern
- Hammersmith downtown
- Buckingham Palace and Green Park
- Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
- St. James Park
- Westminster Abbey
- Houses of Parliament
- Big Ben (Under Renovation!)
- Downing Street
- Horse Guards Parade outside Buckingham Palace
- Westminster Mayfair Market – Oxford St Fancy Shops
- Piccadilly Circus
- Westminster SoHo
- Richmond downtown and Richmond Park
- Tate Modern Museum
- Bankside Pier
- Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
- Prince Albert Memorial
- Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
- Diana Memorial Playground
- Kensington Gardens
- Science Museum
- The Hair Gallery
- Wiggly Monkey Brewery
- Apres Ski Fest Bicester Heritage
- Natural History Museum
- Abbey Road and crosswalk
- Abbey Road Studios
- Petticoat Lane Sunday Market
- The Gherkin
- Liverpool Street
- Thames River
- Thames Ferry
- The Royal Exchange
- British Museum
- Bloomsbury
- National Gallery
- Chinatown
- Trafalgar Square
- Caversfield
- Bicester Village
- Hammersmith School visit
- Milton Keynes
- 360 playground
- Santa’s Grotto
- Santa’s Train
- Tower Bridge
- Abbey Rd area and shop… again
- Oxford Christmas Market
- Oxford city walk tour
- Oxford History of Science Museum
- Trinity College
- Iffley Rd Track
- St Michael Church – Nine Lessons and Carols
- Bicester Village Outlets
- Christmas Day, pm with local friends and neighbors
- Mary Poppins Returns movie
- Salisbury Cathedral and Magna Carta
- Old Sarum
- Stonehenge
- Donnington Castle ruins
- Avesbury Neolithic era henge and museum
- Silbury Hill pre-historic mound
- West Kennet Long Barrow
- Marlborough downtown
- Sherlock Holmes Statue
- Marylebone
- Royal Academy of Music
- Daunt Books
- St. Christophers Place
- Handel & Hendrix House
- HMV (His Master’s Voice Music Shop)
