First full day in London

Up not too early and down to the kitchen/lounge for breakfast (the apartment includes a free breakfast and I am getting tight in my advancing years). We’re about a 20 minute train ride from centre of London so we bought a couple of Oyster cards for train travel. Got to London Tower Bridge on first attempt (lucky we followed Anne’s excellent sense of direction). Did the tour then off to Trafalgar Square, St James Park then Buckingham Palace before on to Hyde Park. It’s pretty warm in London at the moment (sunny and 25 degrees) so almost every square inch of open grass has a pasty white Englishman, with no shirt, sunning themselves - makes it hard to eat lunch in the park ☹️. Plenty of other wildlife as well (particularly water birds and squirrels). The squirrels, especially, are so used to people they come up to you begging for food. We caught the tube few times and only got lost (i.e. went in the wrong direction) when we followed a businessman that was catching the tube for the first time - apparently he’s usually limousine driven. On the way back to the apartment, from the rail station, we stopped at a local pub and Anne had her first warm English beer (turned out to be a cold Coors from the USA 😱). We🚶‍♀️ about 17.5 kms for the day.Read more