The weather has been very kind to us with maximum temperatures around 25 degrees. A heat wave here, so we're told!! We are staying in an old pub in Westminster...what a brilliant location - just around the corner from Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and 15 minutes walk from the London Eye; although it took us an hour to navigate through the crowds on the weekend! Absolutely unbelievable.
We have done all the tourist essentials: a walk across the Westminster Bridge, along Southbank (past the Eye); over Blackfriars and along The Strand and Fleet Street to Trafalgar Square (via the markets at Covent Garden), and then through St James Park. We caught the tube to Camden Markets, (great markets...need more time to see everything). We have been for our ride on the “Eye” (a three hour experience for a 20 minute ride!!!), and our West End show, Billy Elliot, was just fantastic. A visit to Notting Hill confimed this would need to be our London address, were we to live here. Oxford Street and Regent Street left us gasping - so many shoppers and so much opulence. To top off our London leg, we caught up with good friends Anne and Jack.
We leave on the Euro Star for Paris tomorrow.
Tres bon !!
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