Our last day of sightseeing in London so it had to be a big one. To begin with we had some chores to do - mailing home the excess baggage - printed materials I have been collecting on the way. And then we were off on our walk around the western side of the city. We stayed in South Kensington this week which we have thoroughly enjoyed. The Victoria and Albert Museum was our first stop today. What a brilliant Museum, we could have spent all week there. We did spend a couple of hours looking through the Middle Eastern rooms and the Medieval England rooms.
Our walk after that took us to Harrods, where we had to stop and buy food for our picnic lunch. We also spent time gazing at the watch collection.... Onto Hyde Park for lunch with our Chicken and Leek pies and Scotch eggs.
After lunch we headed over to the Australian War Memorial at Wellington Arch, then down Constitution Hill to Buckingham Palace. From there we wandered along st James Park to the Horse Guards Palace and then on to the Churchill War Rooms.
The Churchill War Rooms were certainly a tribute to Sir Winston Churchill and we spent some time wandering through the underground hallways and viewing the exhibits in the Museum.
The timing for our day had been pretty good as we came out of the War Rooms with a bit of time to get round to Downing Street, before heading on to Westminster Abbey for Evensong.
Evensong at Westminster Abbey was pretty incredible. The acoustics in the Abbey were amazing and it was a wonderful experience to sit there listening to the organ and choir through the service. A really nice way to end our last full day in London.
Are you stuck in London?? we saw that the ash is again disrupting flights? Hope you are still having fun, sounds like you are. and what the hell was that pink stuff on a plate in a pub somewhere on your trip.....looks terrible! (in the photo anyway.
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