Platinum Jubilee Trip

Realising I only have 10 days left and so much I still want to do! I started to panic but I reflected on how much I have done; so many amazing memories made, so decided today would be a relaxing day to take another walking 🚶🏻‍♂️ tour and go to another brand new West End Theatre 🎭 Show! Glorious 28 degrees ☀️☀️☀️

Full buffet breakfast 🍳 included in hotel 🏨 room cost today so a great start to the Lovely London day! I forgot how London is not really built for hot weather.: The tube is stifling on a hot day. 🥵 I made another observation on the tube this morning also: All of the handrails in each train correspond to the colours of each line. I don’t know why I haven’t noticed this before 🤷🏻‍♂️for example, blue handrails are on the Victoria line, purple handrails are on the Elizabeth line! 🚊 Bit of useless information for you! 😝

Went on a walking tour through Mayfair this morning. The area was developed late 1700’s for the rich: old money 💰 and new money 💵 during the Regency and Edwardia periods in London. It is still very opulent and rich as you will see from the photos. Claridge’s posh hotel 🏨 is here and we also visited the former apartment of Jimi Hendrix and the classical composer, Handel. Apparently Jimi Hendrix loved Handel and was proud to live in the apartment next door (obviously in different periods in history!). Even though he was a rock legend he loved the classical music. Jimi only lived there for a year but has been quoted as saying it was the happiest period of his life! 🙂

We visited Berkeley Square. Apparently it is famous for a song about nightingales which I have no idea about. Maybe someone can enlighten me!? The walking group broke out into song 🎶 Richard would’ve loved 🥰 it!

Second photo looks like a small terrace house but it is completely palatial inside.! A lot of the terrace houses are like this: opulent, chandeliers, dripping with Gilded features. 💰👑💰👑

Essentially, Mayfair is just chock full of wealth! In 2017 Qatar 🇶🇦 bought up about 70% of the property in Mayfair! Not only are they the worlds best airline (…which I can now attest to!) but the richest too!

Went by Selfridges also and I took a look inside. So much history & wonderment 😍😍😍 it’s very high end and full of pretentious wankers to be honest. Couldn’t get outta there quick enough. In fact, the entire shopping Oxford Street, Regent Street and New Bond Street has really never been my bag!🤪

These London walks are probably my favourite attraction in London, apart from Big Ben obviously. You walk with such passionate guides and find out so much hidden information and secrets. They are amazing and make me fall in love with London even more! 😍

After the walk I found a little pub called “The Spread Eagle 🦅 (“keep it nice “Mummy”!🫣😝) and relaxed 😎 with a couple of ciders and traditional fish and chips with mushy peas! Yum 😋 Although, just quietly, we do it better: taste 👅 and value! Sorry. Not sorry 😝

I walked over the Waterloo Bridge this afternoon, as I used to many times when living here, and thought I would see if my Barber 💈 was still in the same place… he was! Had a quick buzz cut to freshen up for the next few days! 💇🏻‍♂️

As a special treat, for those of us that need a daily fix of the iconic tube I’ve included a circle ⭕️ line train 🚊 via Victoria 😍 from Embankment. Unfortunately the best part: that combined smell of grease & hot 🔥 steel is not available. 😉

Advance Warning ⚠️ ⚠️
When I return back to cold 🥶 dreary wintery Melbourne my friends are going to have to check in because it is going to be unbearable LOL 😝😫⚠️⚠️Les mer