London day 3 - Sunday - Speakers' Corner, Transportation Museum and Covent Garden

Sunday we got up at 8 again. This morning breakfast was bacon, sausages, toast, eggs, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes and tea; Kathryn was feeling better. Pearl the cat came in to say "hi". Breakfast took awhile; we left the house around 10.

We went to Speakers Corner first. Several Christians were speaking, and someone else was speaking against farmers – he got a lot of heckling from a couple of guys. The mad cow problem is growing, and the government is going to have to spend a lot to control it. There were several people speaking at once; they were far enough apart so they didn't override each other, but close enough for listeners to walk from one speaker to another.

We went to Marks and Spencer for tea and cookies, and did some menswear shopping for Randy. Walked down Oxford street, which is the pricey shopping street. We learned there had been a subway bomb in the early morning, which disrupted service in some areas, but not too much in our area.

We went back to Covent Garden Market. It was packed today, and there were several street musicians and performers working the crowd. 

We did some window shopping and bought a little at Crabtree and Evelyn. We went to the Transportation museum next; they have old carriages, trams, busses and underground. I bought a mug here to help me remember the place.

Back on Covent Street where Randy bought us a jacket potato (baked potato) with beans – it was really good.

The weather was cool; we ate sitting on the curb, listening to a good sax player. When we were done, we walked around and found a juggler doing a big show in front of the church; he had a good show and stayed to watch him for a while. Then we went to the covered shopping stalls and I bought a pair of earrings.

Singers who work in the covered eating area are really good; we heard a very good tenor, and a trio of musicians/singers.

Then we went to Tower Hill and walked around Tower of London and over Tower Bridge. There will never come a day when I don't love this beautiful thing.

We walked to St. Katherine’s Dock, where some nice boats were docked there.  We had some good pizza at the dock’s restaurant – ham and cheese, with fottica bread as an appetizer. Then we walked over the Tower Bridge, up the Thames and around to St. Paul’s Cathedral. We were tired by then, so we took the Underground to Victoria and caught the train home again. Got back around 9:30 and had tea.