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A Few Days of Sightseeing in London

·City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom·#travel#spring#london#united-kingdom#city-break#sightseeing
Piccadilly Circus at night, with illuminated digital billboards, the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, and crowds of people.

London with the whole family, a few days of proper sightseeing. The first evening ran from Piccadilly Circus — the big curved screen washing the crowd in pink — up through Chinatown, where red lanterns were strung across every street and a pedicab was working the crowd on Dansey Place. We passed the Palace Theatre lit up for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, then finished on the Thames with the London Eye glowing red across the water.

Daytime went east: the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, its floor covered in striped carpet with a mirrored ball swinging overhead and kids rolling around under it, then across the Millennium Bridge with St Paul's dome straight ahead the whole way. Tower Bridge from farther downriver, HMS Belfast parked in front of it.

Kensington Palace last. It was Queen Victoria's birthplace and childhood home, and she opened it to the public in 1899. The statue out front — Victoria at 18 in her coronation robes, facing the Round Pond — was sculpted by her own daughter, Princess Louise, and unveiled in 1893. The girls stood with it while the clouds held off just long enough.

A city street at night decorated with red lanterns and many people walking along.A large brick theater building lit with warm and blue lights, featuring a Harry Potter sign and winged nest at night.Two smiling people stand in front of the illuminated London Eye and buildings across a river at night.Many people on a colorful striped floor in a vast hall with a large hanging sphere and tall windows.Many people walk on a bridge towards a large domed cathedral and a clock tower under a cloudy sky.Four smiling people, two adults and two children, pose with a large domed cathedral building in the background.Tower Bridge spans a river with several boats and a large warship, surrounded by city buildings under a cloudy sky.A woman and two children smile in front of a large white statue and Kensington Palace.

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