{"id":4476,"date":"2016-05-03T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:36:20","slug":"london-early-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/05\/03\/london-early-march\/","title":{"rendered":"London: Early March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March was the one month of the bunch where I really didn&#8217;t travel much at all. I spent the first few days in Greece&nbsp;as part of my spring break adventure, but that was my only time spent out of the UK that month. But that was not a negative at all, I still had a great time exploring my &#8220;home&#8221; city.<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of things on my London bucket list in the first few weeks of March. And of course, knowing me, most of these things revolved around food. I went to the ever-popular Cereal Killer Cafe (Camden location) and I tried the loaded peanut butter cup milkshake. Naturally, it was fantastic and I even got to talk to the owners of Cereal Killer who were seated next to me. I also went to the Peggy Porschen Cake Shop- a prestigious bakery located near Sloane Square. This was probably the best cake I ever had and I frequented this throughout the rest of my time in London. Finally, I stumbled upon Maitre Choux, an eclair cafe in South Kensington. While vastly overpriced ($9 for a 5 inch long eclair), I had the &#8220;American&#8221; eclair (popcorn and caramel) and it was delicious!<\/p>\n<p>I also got to explore new neighborhoods of London. My absolute favorite was an area called Shoreditch. This is home to the famous Brick Lane, known for its curry houses. There&#8217;s also a huge amount of vintage shops and street art, a very hipster vibe is present throughout the town! My favorite place in Shoreditch had to be Kahaila Cafe. This small cafe takes all of its profits to help underprivileged\/victimized women, and it also happens to have amazing food and very kind staff. This became one of my favorite study spots in London.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I took a trip with one of my friends out to the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon, a few hours away from London. This town is known for being the home of William Shakespeare- we visited both is birthplace\/home as well as his grave. And it happened to be particularly special due to it being the 400th Anniversary of his birth\/death (he died on his birthday- how efficient!). I&#8217;m very glad I went on this trip- the English countryside is a lovely place to explore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March was the one month of the bunch where I really didn&#8217;t travel much at all. I spent the first few days in Greece&nbsp;as part of my spring break adventure, but that was my only time spent out of the UK that month. But that was not a negative at all, I still had a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16630,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/16630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}