Well today was fun, but crazy busy fun!
Here’s a quick summary (with photos to come eventually).
A late start, leaving Cambridge with Kate, Iain and Oliver at about 10am (Kate and Iain choose not to start til late and the day care they have Oliver in closes at 6pm, they often have to go in after hours as well to check up on/watch experiments they are running)…
So…from Cambridge I caught the train into London, first stop Kings Cross, then another (tube) train to Covent Garden where everything seemed to come alive…it was beautiful…I strolled around there for a while then walked all the way down to Knightsbridge, via Hyde Park, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square…sooo Monopoly!! I felt like the top hat!! 🙂
I didn’t stay in Harrods that long, nice but not really my thing…from Harrods I went directly to the Underground again and got a train to Waterloo, which is where I went on the famous London Eye – it was great. Expensive, but great!! The weather wasn’t rainy but very overcast, got some nice shots some of which you will see soon I hope!
After a few hours down there I made my way back to Piccadilly Circus, SoHo, Covent Gardens (where I enjoyed a beer) and then back to Kings Cross, and then finally Cambridge. Walked back home from the station at Cambridge, a good 35 minute (very flat) walk!
Doing a local/personal tour of Cambridge with Kate/Iain tomorrow then helping host a soccer( Football party at their place for a few Aussie friends). Should be a bit more chilled out than today was.
I enjoyed it very much but the enormous mass of people in London is a little scary – the tube was MENTAL during the evening peak hour!!