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The travel diaries: London part 5

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Helloo, hello!! It's been a while since the trip to London and going through all the photographs took me longer than expected, so the posts took some time to upload. Plus, I'm a procrastinator at times! *giggles* Anyway, these are the photos from our last day. After our lunch at NANDOS, that you can see here , we went to... ABBEY ROAD That's right babes! I am a biiiiig The Beatles fan and knowing I could cross Abbey Road just like they did was fun! The crosswalk itself is just like any other. And I took the picture from the wrong side, but who cares?! I did it anyway! What stood out immediately after crossing the street was the Abbey Road Studio. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to photograph the building but I felt a little emotional just imagining the music legends that crossed those doors. We were able to visit and photograph the shop though! (Better than nothing I'd say, right?) ABBEY ROAD SHOP Greeting us were boa...

The travel diaries: London part 2

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Finally, I managed to edit more pictures. It's not easy and it's breaking my heart: I loved every minute I spent there and these amazing ladies made the trip so great! So, these are the last pictures from saturday. Trafalgar Square/ Chinatown Chinatown was my favourite place in London, by far. We ended going there everyday and I was just so happy and so much at home (weird right?). We had lunch at Gerrard's Corner and bought moon cakes at Kowloon Bakery . I highly recommend both places and I'm sure there are other great restaurants there, in case you're looking for Dim Sum.   We decided to do lunch comunity style: picked a few dishes and shared everything between the four of us. This was our most expensive meal: each of us paid about 9-10£ . Like I said, our most expensive meal. We drank jasmine tea. The moon cake was a real treat given it's been nearly 17 years since I last ate one. I brought two to Lisbon and they stay fresh and delicious for a long time.  Be...