After breakfast at the hotel (2nd morning of hard boiled eggs, meat & cheese, breads, yogurt, fruit, cereal, or croissants), we headed back the Baker Street station and once again onto Big Bus tours. Samantha was our tour guide, who was from Glasgow, Scotland. She was delightful!
We hopped off at St. Paul’s cathedral and walked to the Millennium Bridge- gorgeous day- sunny and cool. From there we traveled to Marble Arch and had lunch at McD’s. I know I broke my rule of only eating at local places, but this was easiest, and no I did not get fries.
We walked through Hyde Park- a lovely way to spend a pretty Saturday afternoon. We made our way to the Princess Diana memorial fountain. It is in a nice garden area and the fountain is circular with a grassy area in the middle. It is for wading and splashing, which many children and parents were enjoying. I was wishing Gruff were with us. I think the happy sounds of children’s laughter would please the princess.
From there we continued our walk to Kensington Palace. This was Diana’s residence. It is being renovated and will be open for tours and events at some point. We meandered through the gardens and gave thought to having tea at the Orangery, but decided we better keep on the move.
Our last stop of the day was at Paddington Station of Paddington Bear fame for me! It was here that we were finally able to get a phone for Mark and a SIM card for my HTC android phone. Yeah, we can make calls to the US and throughout the UK and I have Internet once again. Ah-h-h it’s the little things that can make you feel at home.
In fact, once back at the hotel for some reason the Wi Fi started working again – hallelujah! Facebook- here I come.
Dinner was at the Pizza Express- a very nice Italian restaurant, which served gourmet pizzas. We walked around for our last night in London, taking our final photos. I had one gentleman tell me no photos of the very interesting office building and a very nice lady ask about the photo I took of her building and flowers. I am sure they are thinking-“another pesky USA tourist”.
Then on to packing and downloading/ labeling photos.
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