London Recap, Feb 28

I'm sitting here on our last full day in London (until May). I still can't quite believe that we are not going home, but onto Ireland - yippee!!

I've added a few more pictures below and to the gallery, but I wanted to talk today about my impressions and thoughts about these last 11 nights in this amazing city.

It really is an amazing city. I love it here, but I have to admit London takes quite the bite out of the wallet! We did so many fun things, but I think my favorites were:

1) walking along the Thames, enjoying being with my favorite guy, people watching. We never knew what we were going to run into - like Shakespeare's Globe Theater. No, it's not the original but was rebuilt to look like it was back in the 1600's and used as authentic materials as possible. We wanted to tour, but they're doing some work on it, so we will put that off until we return in May.

2) HISTORY! OMG - my American brain kept getting blown away by seeing all the signs of when buildings were established. A pub established in 1616 that survived the Great London Fire, and walking along and realizing we were right in front of Westminster Abbey. One of the reasons we wanted to see all of Europe was because we both love history and boy, are we seeing it up close and personal. It's so much fun.

3) Photography day when we got up early for sunrise photos of Big Ben and Parliament. We then wandered to a local cafe for a great breakfast then onto Buckingham Palace. We got the obligatory photos of it then sat in St. James Park watching all the people head to the Palace and the ducks trying to scam food off all the people heading to the Palace ;) We then set up along the Mall so that we could photograph the Royal Guard and the Scottish bands making their to the Palace for the changing of the Royal Guard. We will photograph that in May.

London is a huge and very crowded city, but was so clean and everyone was polite. I very much enjoyed sitting at the pub, eating local specialties and having a glass of wine (or two). I'm retired...I can drink wine at 2:00 in the afternoon if I want!

I'm looking forward to coming back at the end of May and staying in a different part of town - Notting Hill.

For now...stay tuned next week for our adventures in Dublin...there may be a pint or ten of Guinness consumed.

February 23, 2026 - We're in London!

Ok - I guess we actually did this go to Europe and start traveling deal ;)

We had a very quick couple of days in NYC before heading across the pond to London on Wednesday and boy, is jet lag a thing! We slept 13+ hours the night we got here! I think we are finally caught up and used to the time change.

We've had a lot of fun so far wandering around. We have visited a couple of pubs and toured Churchill's War Rooms. We have wandered up and down the Thames and are becoming experts on the tube and pub culture ;) It's quite a bit different than in the States, but we are getting the hang of it. Yesterday we went to see London Tower and Tower Bridge. Today we went to the Natural History Museum and the British Museum. We got about 12,000+ steps today and are taking it easy tomorrow morning before we head out for Afternoon Tea. It's an Alice in Wonderland themed tea and I'm really excited for it! Pictures to follow.

Stay tuned for more adventures. I'll get better at the blog thing, I promise.

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