Images of London
Room With A View
Compared to our earlier stops, London is one busy joint! It's taken a bit of mental adjustment. Originally we'd planned to spend our first full day touring via the HOHO (hop-on-hop-off) busses, but yesterday The Queen was opening a session of Parliament which meant that several roads were closed off, so we thought it might not be the best day for that. We picked up our 7-day Tube/bus passes which required taking a booth photo*. I look like Bill The Cat in mine, ackkkk. No, I'm not going to show you!
After that we mostly dashed about, though did stop for a nice pub lunch...
..and checked out possible concerts to attend at St. Martin In The Fields, and browsed a bit in the National Potrait Gallery (really enjoyed the Tudors sections as that's the era I'm most familiar with). We wandered about in the Trafalgar Square area...
Preparing for the Queen's procession
I did a bit of shopping at Jigsaw, and we took a ride on the iconic double decker bus. We met up for tea with lovely Josephine of Chic At Any Age, then with a cousin for dinner across town. After dinner, he walked us by St. Paul's Cathedral so we could see it lit up at night.
Had to dodge traffic to get this snap from the middle of the road!
It was a long and full day, but didn't seem as if we'd actually seen much of the city. Getting oriented required a lot of focus, so I didn't take many snaps, but will remedy that today.
Do you have a favorite method of getting yourself oriented in a new city?
*Unlike the Oyster cards, this paper pass also provides 2-for-1 discounts on several major attractions.
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