Walking around London

Up at 8 am and downstairs for breakfast, where Kathleen fixed us a "cooked breakfast" of sausage, broiled tomato, and eggs (less than a week old - she has a source for fresh eggs). She also served fruit, muslix cerial (which I loved), toast with 6 kinds of jellies, and tea. We didn't leave until 10 o'clock!

We decided to buy a week ticket on the Underground, which is also good for other forms of public transportation. For this we needed a travel card, which required a passport photo. 2.5 pounds at a quickie photo booth outside of the Underground took care of that. We went to Victoria station to admire the station and use the bathroom (for the low price of 20 pence),

then walked to Buckingham Palace. We watched the changing of the guard before walking down the London Mall to see other parts of town.

We walked through the Horse Guard exercise yard,

and watched the changing of the Horse Guards. Not as big a spectical as Buckingham's Changing of the Guards, but still nice.

Then we walked over to admire Big Ben; this is iconic for a reason - it's so beautiful.

We got ice cream cones, topped with Flake, and ate them as we walked over to Westminster Abby; it was open and we were able to go through it, which was wonderful. We also went into the smaller church there. Next we got on a double-decker bus for a short ride around, getting off at Oxford Street where we had dinner at Deep Dish Pizza buffet (which was pretty good). We found a Marks and Spencer store nearby and bought soap, chocolate, bread and cheese. Then we walked to Duke's Bar in Soho, where we bought a sandwich for later. We went to see the Tower of London again, because you can never see that too much, and walked across Tower Bridge after dark, snacking on the chocolate bars.

We continued walking down to the River Thames to view the HMS Belfast, then over to the area around the London Dungeon. From there we went to the Elephant and Castle Underground station and headed back to Clapham North. Upstairs in our room we had dinner: Duke's sandwiches, bread and cheese, soda and beer.