Tuesday, May
23rd.
Today
Bruce and I took the UBER shuttle service catamaran up and down the River
Thames. It’s interesting to see the sights of the city from the water and it’s actually
a faster and easier way to get around. The boats are very powerful and fast,
until the speed limits of the busiest centre of the city section. Bruce is a history buff and is a font of interesting facts, dates and trivia. He enjoys sharing and pointing out what he knows, and I was very happy to be educated. We got off Tower
Bridge in the centre of all the main sites. We got there in time to watch the changing
of the guard, walk down the Mall towards Buckingham Palace, walk through St
James Park observing birds, to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. We
stopped at an old pub and had a couple of pints. There was a bell on the wall
that rang when the House had to vote and any MP’s there would leave their beer
and run back to vote. Then we walked over the Millennium Bridge to St Paul’s
Cathedral. We had thought about going in, but they wanted 24 pounds each, so we
gave it a pass as I have been inside before. We got back on the UBER shuttle
and rode it east to the end before returning a few stops to the Greenwich stop.
We had walked for a few hours and what with the beer we were both well and
truly tired, so we headed back to his condo. Bruce made us a veggie pasta
dinner and we hung out with Pam watching a ‘reality’ show about British couples
in a race across Canada, silly and fake but interesting, before retiring early.
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