The United Kingdom

I spent 6 months in the UK for my masters thesis and I loved every bit of it. It's a great travel destination. A lot of people ask me where to go and what to see. This is what I did and recommend. I'm not a travel guide of course but these were fun things to do:

In and around London

There's a lot to do around London and if you spent all day everyday going out it'd still take ages to cover everything. This page is halfway between a guide to spending time in London and my personal journal detailing things to did and saw.

Battersea

Battersea Park Battersea Power Station

Waterloo and Westminster

Waterloo Station Southbank and BFI Westminster Abbey Trafalgar Square Covent Garden Buckingham Palace

Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes Museum Regents Park Checking out UCL

Catching a show at Piccadilly Circus

Walk around SoHo and Chinatown Picadilly Circus Leicester Square Watch the Book of Mormon! (not family-friendly but the best laugh you'll ever have)

City of London Area

Tower of London (Koh-i-noor!!) Tower Bridge Get a view from Skygarden (which is free unlike the overpriced view from the Shard)

A Day in Greenwich

Note : you should go here via ThamesLink and NOT by taking the bus from Peckham. Having done both I can say confidently that the former is a much more pleasing experience than the latter. Greenwich Market Cutty Sark Greenwich Park Royal Observatory (another great view of the London skyline). Maritime Museum Queen's House Look around Canary Wharf Docklands Museum Boating Back!

Milton-Keynes

Red Bull Racing HQ Bletchley Park Museum for Computing

York

Oxford

Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath