What do you know, both Heathrow and Frankfort airports have free Wifi! I got most of my pictures resized before our first flight and am taking advantage of our layover to get this up.
Our feet are still aching from yesterday. After much research, many graphs comparing admissions to various sites, and lots of second guessing, I opted to buy London passes for the greatest savings. I plotted out our day down to half hour increments, mapping out all the transport directions in order to maximize our sightseeing time. It all should have gone smoothly. But Westminster Abbey was closed for the day due to the memorial service scheduled that evening. I cannot even begin to express how devastated I was when we walked up and read that sign. I am still kicking myself for not making Saturday our London Pass day. I’m not sure why I didn’t, other than I guess I thought Saturday would be busier at the big tourist sites. We were surrounded by thousands of tourists everywhere we went yesterday, so I’m not sure it would have made a difference. Oh well.
We started the day on the tube, riding to the Churchill War Rooms for a really fascinating look at the secret bunker in which the war was essentially run. We stayed two hours and could have stretched it to more, but we had places to go! I definitely want to take the kids back there someday.
Houses of Parliament
Big Ben
Then after a 5 minute detour into the Jewel Tower, we decided to go up and see Charles Dickens’ house and then hit the Tower of London. Since I hadn’t planned on going there, we ended up being there at the worst time of day and did not care to stand in line for four hours to see the Crown Jewels. They did have a WWI memorial of poppies to commemorate the anniversary.
Boarding call. Will finish when we’re back in the US!