Since we've been here, we found this company called London Walks. They do all sorts of walking tours around London and even have day trips to the country side.
Anyway, we started with a Harry Potter walk, which took us to all these different sights where the characters of the movie were based on. Check out the picture on the left. It's the laneway where Harry buys his owl and wand from. Pretty cool hey.
We've finally gotten around to see some of London's West End theatre. We went to Chicago at Covent Gardens and it was a great show. I think Corryn has booked a few more shows in so that will be good. We also did a day trip last to a few towns outside of London. The first stop was Avebury Henge. It's a huge stone henge that is said to be the 3rd most spiritual place in Britain. It's a large circle of 99 stones (said to mirror Mars' 99 moons) with two 
smaller circles in the centre. The circles were constructed in 2,500 BC.
Some were toppled and destroyed during the Roman period but the remnants of the circle are still quite marvellous. The picture of the tree roots on the left (which is inside the stone circle) is supposedly what gave JR Tolkien the idea for his entrance to Middle Earth.
The Lacock Abbey (left), an 18th Century homestead, which was originally built as a nunnery is gorgeous.
The photos may look familiar as several rooms and passageways 
were also used in the Harry Potter films (Hogwart's School I believe - see a pic on the left of one of the hallways). Anyway, we are learning lot's about Harry (Well I am anyway).
Other than that, we have ventured around town a bit and seen a few of the usual sights. Yes, even Buckingham Palace (pic on the right). There are lot's of squirrel's in the parks and every time you see them it's still exciting! 
Our focus now is trying to plan some weekend's away. We'll keep you posted.
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