Night location: London, United Kingdom

Our one full day in London started with an incredible breakfast at a cafe started by New Zealanders called Ozone Coffee Roasters. We sat up at the bar that wrapped around the central square of the kitchen and watched as the chefs and barristas created gourmet food and coffee.

From here we caught an iconic red double-decker bus to the British Museum. You could spend years going to this free public museum and still not see everything but it was great wandering the halls again. We sought out the rooms that had marble antiquities from Ephesus like the sculpted part of a column from the Temple of Artemis. A little further south in Turkey than we went, the remains of another ancient wonder the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus were found and there was a whole room dedicated to the marble friezes of the Greeks defeating the Amazons as well as some of the huge statues found that adorned the tiers of this tomb. Amber was particularly excited to walk through the displays on the Assyrians and the Persians as she teaches her Year 11 classes about both of these empires. To see the library of Ashurbanipal and a plaster cast of the staircase of Persepolis was really amazing.

We caught another bus to the bustling shopping district of Oxford Street and had a coffee break at Workshop Coffee Co in the oasis of St Chrisopher's Place before doing a bit of shopping and then catching another bus to one of our favourite areas in London, Covent Garden. No trip to London is complete without a visit to the Parisian tea room of Laduree that we first discovered in 2011 and have returned to faithfully ever since! We enjoyed tea and sweet delights before going back to our hotel for a short rest.

In March this year we attended an exceptional John Mayer concert. The following morning while discussing our favourite moments we realised that his World Tour was going to Europe around the same time as us. We looked up his tour dates and found that his London concert would work with our itinerary if we tweaked it a little, so here we are! The O2 arena looks like a giant circus tent from the outside and inside there are restaurants that encircle the ground floor while the second floor is an outlet shopping centre. We ate dinner and walked through the shops before entering the core and finding our seats. John Mayer and his band were brilliant once again, particularly his extended version of 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room'.