We have walked miles. My feet are numb. My legs are screaming. But we are having a wonderful time. Some of the things we’ve done:
Thursday: arrive at heathrow. Took the train to the city and checked into our hotel. Hopped the tube again to Westminster for a tour of the Abbey. Dinner. Traditional steak and ale pie with mashed. Then a walk over the bridge, over the river Thames, for one trip around The Eye. We walked to Trafalgar Square and unfortunately the national Gallery museum had closed 10 minutes earlier. We walked to Buckingham palace and it was beautifully lit up at night. A few more blocks walk to the St. James train station and headed back to our hotel. We then met our friends and walked to the troubadour for a fun night of live music.
Friday: Skyview garden tour with Mary and her granddaughter Addyson. I’ve worked with Mary for many years. They are here for a fun vacation and our travel dates overlapped a little. We met at the walkie-talkie building. We then went to tour the Tower of London. Lunch and then a short train ride to Victoria station where we left them to go pack and head back to Tampa. Caroline and I headed back to the national portrait Gallery and spent a couple hours gawking at the beautiful art. We then took the train to Knightsbridge and did a little shopping at H and M and Harrods. Dinner at a pub in earls court.
Saturday: Met Bernie at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre. Then a trip to the market and lunch. We walked back across the bridge over the Thames River to the train station and headed to Chelsea. I wanted to check out bimba. That was a wasted trip as far as Bimba but we did see rows of beautiful apartments and many other shops. We took a double-decker city bus to the museum of natural history area. We did not go in that museum; however, we went to the Royal Albert Hall to see the Noel Fielding art exhibit. We then walked back to the Victoria and Albert Museum to gaze (gawk?) at the beautiful café. We saw many exquisitesculpitures on our way in and out of the V&A museum. We got back on the train for a couple of stops to earls court to retrieve our luggage from the hotel. Then to the the train to meet Keith. Wonderful Indian dinner.
