Harlaxton Day 4: Sherlock Holmes and The Cereal Killer Cafe

My morning in London started off with a cup of yogurt, a couple pieces of “streaky” bacon, and a heaping mug of hot tea. After breakfast at our residence hall, my classmates and I headed off to class. Class today consisted of picking apart “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and discussing my favorite assigned reading, “Gifted.” Discussion on “My Last Duchess” was definitely the highlight of class for me. Through analyzing the poem line-by-line, we drew some intriguing conclusions about the content of the poem and shared a lot of laughs while doing it.

After class was over, I headed back to our residence hall, ready to prepare for the rest of the day. My group decided to head down to the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Although I have never read the books, the museum proved to be quite interesting. The tour guides were dressed in Victorian Era clothing, and the home was set up to the specific details presented in the novels. As I walked through the museum, I saw old medicine bottles, the letters “V R” shot into the wall, and some… interesting looking wax figures, to say the least.

When we left the museum, we decided to hop on the tube and ride to Camden Town to visit the Cereal Killer Cafe. Whenever I found out that I would be studying abroad in Great Britain, and that we would be staying in London for a week, I decided to heavily research unique places to eat in London. That is when I came across the Cereal Killer Cafe, a cafe solely dedicated to every kid’s favorite morning breakfast food: cereal! This 90’s themed cafe has a wall of all different cereals that you can choose from to mix and match in a bowl, and also has special items like cereal ice cream and cereal fried chicken. I decided on a bowl of their homemade Spaceman cereal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

After my stomach was full of cereal, and my heart was full of happiness (from eating said cereal), my group rode the tube one last time back to our residence hall. I decided to turn in early so that I could get a full night’s rest for our exciting trip to Bath the next day. It was an amazing day of seeing so many quirky little places and having such entertaining class conversations.

Maggie