London 2024

London was on our route, and London always deserves a visit. This particular stop ended up being a little more art-focused than usual. Both the National Gallery and Tate Modern have free admission to their permanent collections, which is especially appreciated in a city as incredibly expensive as London.

I’d never been to Tate Modern, so that was the main focus of this visit, and I wasn’t disappointed. The Centre Pompidou in Paris remains my favourite modern art museum, but I’d put Tate Modern a close second — slightly ahead of MoMA in New York. That’s some pretty damn good company.

We still made it to plenty of the usual tourist haunts, including Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden and the Tower of London. Even after previous visits, there’s always something else to see in this city.

We also had some decent all-you-can-eat Chinese food in London’s Chinatown. Interestingly, it was the only time during our entire month-long trip through Europe that we had to use paper money. The restaurant was cash only. After weeks of tapping a card for practically everything, handing somebody actual money suddenly felt strangely old-fashioned.

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