I woke up this morning to see a beautiful light covering of snow in Willesden, the area in London where I currently live. Because it was so cold, minus 4 degrees Celsius to be exact, light snow feel instead of the usual misty rain that we usually get. It doesn’t snow that often here so [...]

We headed into the London city yesterday for some dinner and to check out the Christmas lights and winter decorations that were recently put up around the city. We also headed to Carnaby Street and saw massive snowmen suspended between the buildings surrounded by snowflakes. These massive inflatable snowmen were suspended from cables above pretty [...]

Tonight Xuan and I visited the National Portrait Gallery which is located right behind the National Gallery (pictured below) on Trafalgar Square in London. We thought we’d check it out since it’s one of the recommended places to visit here plus entrance to the gallery is free. We saw some really amazing paintings going right [...]

It’s been a little over three weeks since we arrived in London and it’s been pretty amazing. When we landed it was quite humid and the following few days were sunny and warm. The weather was much nicer than I had expected. It didn’t last long though. It rained a fair bit the following week [...]