We needed to get back to our round trip airport of Heathrow. We met up with Shell, Adrianna, and Grams and Papa in Milan for our hopper flight to London where believe it or not, we had a big itinerary planned! If you ever travel with a Grandma, make sure she’s as cool as this one is 😎
Yes, we had things we wanted to do in our short 6 hours in London before bed and an early flight. We landed and grabbed Uber’s from Gatwick Airport to Heathrow, which rounds out our experience in each of the three England airports. 40 minutes later we checked into the hotel, dropped our bags, and Uberred or trained into the city.
Grams got to see Buckingham Palace which was on her bucket list, and she got to see the guards outside. She wasn’t sure how they weren’t freezing because it’s cold in London! Only 42 as the high yesterday.
We all met up for dinner at a pub that Yelp said had fish and chips. We lucked out by walking upstairs to essentially a private banquet room where we were able to have a lovely last supper together. The pies and fish were great. We had a lovely dinner talking about our highlights of the trip, what we want to do next time, and what we would do differently.
Since Grams has caught the ick that’s going around, after dinner she was tired and ready for bed. They Uberred back to our airport hotel and hit the sack.
The Berry’s? Oh we hit the town. We started about 8pm and went hard until 11:35pm. We went straight for the 9 3/4 platform to take Harry Potter pictures and shop at the gift shop.
Then we took the tube to Abbey Road for the iconic Beatles photo inspiration. Differences? Ours has three girls, was taken at night, and circa 2018.
Then we jumped on the tube again and went to Baker Street where the kids saw the closed Sherlock Holmes museum (something we can save for our next trip here) and the iconic 221B Baker Street. These were the things they wanted to see in London. No queen or guards for them. A different generation with different interests.
