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