The room is reminescent of our first night in Zurich. The suitcase needs to be standing up if we're both going to be walking and/or moving about. The heat in here is cranking, too. We've got no control -- it's either on or off. They've been sending someone to turn it off for 10 minutes now. That's service. It's a bed, a toilet, a shower and a roof. It's all we need. What do you expect for $70 a night. We packed in a whole lot of stuff today. The plan^* was a little disrupted when we got in at about 7 and we couldn't get into the room. There was a place for us to store our bags and have a quick change. Then we were off.


Took the tube all over. First to Westminster Abbey where we beat the majority of the crowds -- there was just a small line, er, queue... No photos allowed inside, though.

We took some around Parliament and Big Ben

and then we walked across the Thames to the Eye.
We were way early for our noon reservation, so we grabbed some food and got our tickets printed... and got in line early. No big deal. Don't imagine it would be unless there were lots of crowds.


So we went around in little pods -- they don't stop them unless there is someone with a wheelchair or something -- so you board and disembark while they are very slowly moving. It takes half an hour to go all the way around. After that it was off to lunch.

I didn't have us "slotted"^* to start through the Tower of London until 2:00 -- so we had plenty of time to have a good lunch, wait in a slow line for tickets and walk and walk and walk. We saw the jewels, and the White Tower. Good stuff.

Then, since we had loads of time, we took the Tube to Knightsbridge, headed into Zara (odd that I've been to the store in Montreal and London, but not in Georgetown) and got a cute dark emerald/hunter knit turtleneck.

And then it was across the street to Harrod's. What a zoo. It was completely insane. couldn't stay in there for terribly long. And now, we're in the room until about seven when we're going to dinner. Going to try and stay up until nine or so. I got a few hours of sleep on the plane. Bren didn't get any... Tomorrow's plan is for St. Paul's, Buckingham Palace, Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square.


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^*We don't normally plan much of our trips. We just go with the flow and do what we feel like, when we feel like it, and take it pretty easy. But since this time we had a little time and so much we wanted to do, plus it was a holiday weekend; I had to make sure we knew what was open when, so that we could see everything.