After leaving Berlin, we came back to London for the rest of Meena's visit. Lots of museums, theater, food, and photos followed.
After an early morning waiting in line for day seats for Billy Elliot, we walked down to the Tate Britain, one of my favorite museums in London. We also went to the National Gallery later on; I'm there nearly every week, either for class or for fun, but this was the first time I saw most of the museum, as I'm usually in the Renaissance galleries. Our time there included passive-aggressively waiting for people to move so that we could take a picture in front of J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire - yes, because of the scene in Skyfall. Couldn't resist the Bond references.
I had booked free tickets to the Sky Garden, an observation deck (about 40 floors up) with a restaurant, bar, and indoor garden. The view of the city was great, even on the cloudy day - we didn't get to see a sunset like I had hoped for - and it sure beats the price tag of the Shard's observation deck.
On Meena's last day in London, we went to Notting Hill after brunch at the Breakfast Club. We went to the crowded Portobello Road Market to look at the records, old books, film cameras, bags, and other antique things on sale. We also wandered around the streets lined by cute, colorful houses, pointing out the pretty ones we'd like to live in (Meena wants a bright pink house).
A few blocks from the tube stop is St. Luke's Mews, which is just so cute. Can I live there? Some of these photos are phone photos - I had filled up my memory card and couldn't delete photos quickly enough.
Meena is a big fan of the Beatles so we had to go to Abbey Road to do the typical tourist thing - take a picture at the crosswalk. As another tourist activity, we went to Baker Street and briefly went inside the gift shop for the Sherlock Holmes Museum.
