In Which We Get Out

Our hostel has "breakfast" as an offering... granted, it's not much of a breakfast, but it gives us a few free things to work with. Their offerings include: dry toast, small packets of butter, small packets of jam, bran cereal, corn flakes, rice krispies, breakfast tea, skim milk, and orange juice.

The first morning we woke up and discovered how meager the "breakfast" was... especially since neither of us drinks milk, and I don't like jam.. There weren't a lot of options. We ended up eating some leftover plane snacks (a Luna bar, for me) and a mug of tea.

On our second night we made actual food.... quesadillas, using assorted vegetables (onions, bell peppers, zucchini) that we sauteed for a short while and added fajita seasoning to. We topped with leftover parmesan,  and salsa, and cooked them in flour tortillas until crisp... quite a feat considering the cookware in the kitchen looked dumpster dived and always burnt the food in the middle of the pan!

Since we don't really like cereal, or dry toast - and we both want actual food in the morning.. We bought eggs, and used 2 each morning and made a little scramble. 

There were no bowls in the kitchen, and no forks... So we scrambled the eggs in a mug with a butter knife.

Our breakfast spread was quite good... We also bought almond milk! So we could have toast with butter, scrambled eggs with leftover fajita veggies, and corn flakes for me/bran for Leah. And tea!

Then we cut up some celery to pack for snacks... along with a bit of cheese, carrots and two kinds of dip.

And off exploring we go!

Of course, we kept getting confused... In the US on walkways you keep right, in the UK you keep left! We kept going the wrong direction.

Odd British words.

We went to Trafalgar square:

And then to the "real" Diagon Alley... which was less exciting than we anticipated... 

We had read that there would be a candy shop that carried some Harry Potter themed treats; chocolate frogs, Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans, etc... Unfortunately all were packaged and not made in-house (and quite costly; 4 pounds for a small packaged mass produced chocolate frog) But we did find pop-tarts for 5.5 GBP... $8.60 roughly. I'd heard that Pop tarts were not something that they eat here (or Oz either) but certainly didn't expect to see them in a candy shop... or priced sooo high!

Harry Potter themed banknotes at a bookshop/coin collectors store.

And we ended by considering taking a shot with a British phone booth... One of the red tourist ones, not the REAL ones...