england & france vacation, part four

At this point in the trip we needed a bit of a break, especially since the following day we were getting up early (4am, to be exact), to take the Eurostar to France. We decided to have a bit of a low-key day, and hit up Abbey Road in the morning before heading to Piccadilly Circus for some shopping.

Abbey Road is not the quiet crosswalk that it seems on the Beatles album. It is a very busy street, which makes it all the more hilarious when tourists are trying to recreate the album cover. I don’t think we ever managed to get a good shot of all of us walking across the street, but it was fun to visit.

After that, we stopped at a two-story (!) Lush Cosmetics in Piccadilly Circus. Having worked at Lush a few years ago, I loved stopping by a store in England. It would have been cool to see the first store ever, but maybe on my next trip!

We ate lunch at Speedy’s, which has been made famous by BBC’s TV show Sherlock. On the show, 22B Baker Street is next store to the deli, but in reality it’s a private residence, nowhere near Baker Street. I’m sure that the people who live there are just thrilled at the amount of tourists taking pictures of their front door! #sarcasm

During lunch, we learned that we weren’t far from The British Museum, which is home to the Rosetta Stone, so we did the quickest museum visit ever to catch a glimpse and take some pictures.

Since it was our last day in England, we decided to take a double-decker bus to dinner at The Sherlock Holmes Restaurant for a last meal of fish and chips and a cold beer. We sat in the front on the second floor, and it was quite an experience to see our driver navigate the tiny streets of London during rush hour.

We went to bed soon after dinner to prepare for our early wake-up and France in the morning.

Missed a post from my England & France vacation? Here’s part one, part two, and part three.