England's Rose

In London.

Stayed in Hampstead with a friend from Martinborough. She is house mistress at a boarding school so we stayed in her flat at the dorms. Hampstead is only about 20 mins on the tube to central London so its very convenient. It felt strange catching the tube!


We went shopping down Oxford St and then got on the hop on hop off bus which took us down Regent St (for more shopping), to Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the London eye, Tower Bridge and Parliament, Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace. Apparently we arrive moments too late to see the Queen as she was driven out of Buckingham Palace but we did get there in time to see the changing of the guard.

We went for a river cruise down the Thames and entertained by the MC. He was so much better than the dragon from Amsterdam. Went to a play with Judy Dench in it and the man from To the Mannor Born. Later we walked to Trafalgar Square and went to a roof top bar to look at the view of London at night. Not as nice as the view from Mt Vic at night.

Next stop Ireland.