Europe Day Sixty Two to Sixty Five - A London Christmas

Our last morning in Egypt we packed up our bags and had breakfast at the hotel before taking one last crazy Cairo taxi ride to the airport. We thanked our taxi driver who was very nice and got on our plane to Athens, Greece. After we landed in Athens we got on our connection flight to London. Once the long flight was finally over we landed in London with snow on the runway. We got off our plane stretched our legs, took a train to the same station we had left for Scotland from and walked to our cozy little apartment. We checked in and relaxed for a bit before heading to bed after a tiring travel day.

The next morning we hit the road early and got some more Pret de Mange smoothies for breakfast like we had done at the beginning of our trip. After we finished our smoothies we headed for the London Christmas market. We walked the streets of London in the rain to the market. It was pretty cool. They had all the lights and rides, carnival stands, and market stalls selling wood carving, gemstones, ornaments, and food.

We walked around all the stalls for a bit before getting some amazing vegetarian chili in an edible bowl for lunch. When we had finished and had warmed up a bit we went Christmas shopping at all the stalls. After an hour or two we finished our shopping and started heading back to to our apartment. Dad got us some fish and chips for dinner. We finished our meal and stayed at the apartment for the rest of the night.

In the morning we headed to the London Bridge. It is the latest of many bridges built there, the first probably built by the Roman Empire and some of the more famous by kings back when there were many buildings on it.

At the London Bridge there were a few wood carving stands on the side of the Thames river.

There was a beautiful plastic Christmas tree that Sage pointed out with a backdrop of the London Bridge.

After we took a picture Zaddek and Dad quickly ran over to the London Bridge to put a lock on it like all the other tourists were but the rest off us were happy just being there.

We had some veggie wraps for lunch along the market before heading back to our apartment to pack our bags on our last full day in Europe. We left our apartment and headed to our new hotel at the airport for our early flight. We got into our hotel room and had some take-out for dinner before getting some shut eye for our flight back home. We all fell asleep a bit happy to go home and a bit sad to leave Europe. Early the next morning we woke up to a shrill alarm and went through one last European airport before boarding the plane for our long flight home. 

Total planes: 4

Total taxis: 1 crazy Cairo one

Total subways: 4

Total miles walked: 11.9 miles