The next morning we once more headed into central London. Our first stop was King’s 
Cross Station to search for Platform 9 3/4. It was easy to find, there was a line to get your picture taken running through the wall and a shop full of Harry Potter merchandise. We snapped a couple photos and moved on to find the real thing. It turns out there is absolutely nothing between platforms 9 and 10, the tracks are right next to each other. We were later told that King’s Cross has been renovated fairly recently so it’s possible there used to be, but the discovery made us sad nonetheless.
Camden Market where we spent a long time wandering around hoping to find me a travel ring that I wasn’t allergic to. We didn’t find one, but there was lots of cool stuff to browse. We wandered into the food court, where we found a cart selling Peruvian fare. We purchased some of that to share and went to sit along the canal while we ate.
After lunch we headed towards the exit of the market as we were walking though we 
noticed that a boat was going to go through the lock, so we stopped to watch. It was really cool seeing this old hand operated lock in action. As we wandered away we spotted a supermarket and headed in for some essentials (sunscreen mostly) before heading back to the Hyde Park Hilton to meet with our bike tour!
The bike tour (through Fat Tire Tours) was great. We rode mostly through royal parks 
with a bit of street riding, so the parks were a large part of the tour and were beautiful. We also stopped at many of the main sights. Buckingham Palace (the royal standard was flying, meaning the queen was in residence), Kensington Palace, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, The Royal Albert Hall, St Paul’s Park and more. The pace was nice and leisurely, the guide was great and we had a lot of fun.
After the tour we joined another of our tour buddies at a shwarma place across from the ending point, then took our delicious prizes into Kensignton Gardens, where we sat on creatively named “round water”. We then went on a mission to find the statue of Peter 
Pan that exists in the gardens. Peter Pan was written by a fellow staying at Kensington Palace, or something like that, which is why the statue is there.We finished off the night with a train ride back to Hackney, all in all a good day.