Day 19: Streets of London
The Hotel: Royal National London
at Russell Square is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. I’ve got no idea how
many rooms it has, but there are probably about 200 rooms on our floor. We’re
on the 6th of 7 floors. Breakfast was like feed time at a cattle
feed lot. Very mass produced, very unfriendly and an experience that we can
tolerate for two more days, but not happily.
After breakfast we caught the tube
to the river and caught the ferry to Greenwich. Straight up to the observatory.
This was one of the places I’d been looking forward to since reading the book ‘Longitude’
many years ago. The observatory didn’t disappoint – the highlight being John
Harrison’s 4 clocks which solved the Longitude problem in the 1700’s.
Next was the National Maritime
museum. Lach and I went in a Volvo round the world racing yacht simulator.
Awesome! We then caught the ferry back to London and walked the streets for a
few hours. Parlaiment building, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, National
Galley (including some famous Monet, van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Turner and lots
of others we should probably know but don’t) and Buckingham Palace. From there
we caught the open top bus which toured all over the city. Dinner at a pub in
Whitehall, then a walk to Piccadilly Circus and tube back to Russell Square.
Big day. Lots of famous sights to take in.
The Hotel: Free Wifi doesn't work! I'll add the photo when I have wifi that works.
3 comments:
Love the blogs, and a very happy birthday to you Coles have a great one xxx katrina
Enjoying reading your progress. Happy Birthday, you missed out on your chokie today at moning tea!
Wow this looks like a great holiday and excellent way to record it. Thank you for the link
Today is the 10th in Aussie land so have have fun on your Happy Birthday. Cheers sue RK
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