After a 7 hour flight and being up about 24 hours we arrived and by way of train,walking and taxi got to our hotel where we immediately collapsed onto the bed for a couple hours. Then mid afternoon we were up and across the street into Hyde Park to walk around and look at stuff. The first place we came to was the rose garden. This is an area that has roses. In the middle it also had a statue.
I have no idea what the name of this statue is, I’m sure it is something meaningful. They also had benches to sit on so we did.
Some of the roses looked like this.
While we were sitting there I thought King Chuck the King of England walked by but after thinking about it for a while I decided it wasn’t him as he didn’t do anything kingly.
From the rose garden we continued on and got to the small lake that is there and had a refreshing Coca Cola at the food place and set and just soaked up sun and watched the swans and a duck nest that was made from twigs and trash.
We walked a bit more of the park and then headed up Piccadilly St looking for food and after walking better than a mile we ended up in a place and had an excellent, if expensive, meal of a mix of Peruvian and Chilean cuisine.
Today we got up, had breakfast and hit the underground to get to Tower hill and The Tower of London. We spent a few hours there learning how it was home of English royalty for the first 500 years of English history and then became a place where cutting off heads was apparently a family tradition. This is also where you can see the royal jewels. The nuts thing was that the line to get into this part had to be at least 2 hours long. First off I didn’t understand how King Chuck King of England had that kind of time to stand around with his “jewels” hanging out and more so why that many people wanted to see them. After touring the tower we crossed the street to a coffee place and had a refreshing coffee and a cinnamon roll to hold us while we returned to Piccadilly Circus so Mary could try to shop. While enjoying the refreshing coffee I was sure King Chuck King of England was sitting at a table nearby. After thinking about it for a while I decided it couldn’t be him because he was still across the street showing his jewels.
We are now off to find this evenings expensive meal. Tomorrow is the Magna Carta and the British Museum. If we are lucky King Chuck King of England may be there.