Eager to get out of the heat of Thailand, we arrived to 100°F days in London! Even so, we were glad to be back to Western food and darker beers.

Treating London as home-base, we took off on the first of our south England day trips. This one was a beautiful walk along the Seven Sisters between Seaford and Eastbourne. These are the white-chalk cliffs that Dover is famous for, but more easily viewable from land.

You know Stephanie cannot resist a good museum, and London is chock full of them! Today we visited the British Museum, walked the Thames, and relaxed in the park.

Why just visit one museum when we can go to two? After enjoying an English breakfast and watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace we visited Westminster Abbey and the National Gallery.

Eager to get back out into the countryside and away from the heat of the city we day-tripped down to Bath. This is a beautiful quaint English town famous for its well preserved Roman baths. They should also be famous for their amazing Indian food!

This is a bit of a time-travel to keep England together on the site, but after a bit of a loop around Ireland and Scotland we landed back on our own in York. This is a busy modern town built within an ancient wall, and is quite a unique experience.

Today we walked the wall around York and visited the beautiful cathedral. We also enjoyed an authentic British afternoon tea and visited the Shambles, which inspired Diagon Alley from Harry Potter. To cap off the day we found the true treasure of York, the Kings Arms pub. To quote a Google review "the beer was so cheap that they were buying strangers drinks".

We wanted to finish off our time in England by visiting the true countryside, and we got everything we could have wanted in Malham. This beautiful little town caught our attention because it features some of the best "pub walks" in England. I could not recommend it more highly.

For our last day in Malham we took the long trek out to the tarn and really soaked up the English countryside. After a long walk in the brisk weather we warmed up back at the pub.