London, Leather Jackets, and Harry Potter

LASTLY, here's what I've been up to in London lately (with fewer pictures...because I didn't take any pictures of me studying for finals).

Since everyone in London has a leather jacket for some reason, I went to Portobello Market on Portobello Road (a 20 minute walk away) and got myself one. I'm officially Britishish now.

Also, last week (instead of studying for my finals over the weekend), my friend who's studying in Ireland, came to visit. We decided to go sight seeing at all the places where they filmed Harry Potter in London.

This is where they filmed Diagon Alley. It was actually just full of business people wearing suits and drinking beers in the street at noon. Because that's what they do in London.

This is the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron....that's actually a glasses store. Someone back in Hollywood apparently edited everything out (including that skeleton to the left of the door).

This is the Australia House...or Gringotts.

And apparently Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross was actually shot at Platform 4...here.

But they have this next to Platform 9 so tourists can take ridiculous amounts of pictures.

Done.

This sign in King's Cross reminded me of Mom...

We took out friend to do some more sight seeing...so here's another picture of Buckingham Castle (or as the Queen calls it, "The Office"). There are guards everywhere in England, so I keep getting pictures of them. I have about 500 by now.

501.

I'm sure this building is important for some reason, but I have no idea for what. It looks pretty, though.



I just finished my second final for my second class today, so the first part of my semester is over (!). Next Monday is my first class of my last class before I graduation and Tuesday is the start of my internship. But before that...I'm going to Italy! I'm landing in Rome tomorrow, going to Florence for two days, and then leaving from Pisa. And by then I'll be out of money, so I'm going to stay in England for a while after that.