We made a dash from the Green Park tube station to make it in time for the change of guards at the Buckingham Palace. But since we were late, we barely managed to get a good position to watch the change of guards.But we did see the entire ceremony and though it was nice, both of us found it pretty average. From here we got to the Hyde Park to look at the Diana Memorial Fountain. This again was a damp squib. The walk was quite a bit so we slept for a while at the memorial. The memorial is a large heart shaped structure of the ground, through which water flows. Since there is no fountain really, it left us a bit dissapointed.
We reached the Tower of London after some confusing detours since a few lines of the London Tube were shut. Lunch was Fish & chips. It was quite good. The tower of London and the tower bridge (usually referred as the London bridge) was a great watch. I never knew there was so much history associated with the tower. The crown jewels are amazing to look at though the Kohinoor doesn't stand out as much as you would think it should. Each of the exhibit screams of wealth & royalty and to view them at such close proximity is quite an experience.The tour inside the engine room of the tower bridge was like a rerun of hydraulics we learnt in Engg College. The old system of opening the bridge is a technical marvel and some of the fundaes were still hazy. Damn, I am quite a bad engineer. :-( We strolled into a quaint English pub and had some pretty good roast chicken and a draught beer. The chicken was served with Yorkshire pudding (not even remotely sweet & nothing close to any sort of dessert) and roast potatoes. Our journey back got delayed since we had to take the replacement bus service as the main trains were shut. These guys have an amazing system of replacement bus services whenever the train services are down. They have the timetable worked out to the minute and published months in advance. Very impressive.
We got back late and wrapped up packing by 12 and went to bed feeling sad that we would be leaving London next morning.
2 comments:
Sale Juntaa,
I found out only thorugh this blog that you visited my town and didn't even let me know. Not that i would have wasted your precious time (guess you were on honeymoon) but at least could have met up and made your trip slightly more memorable by pre-arranging stuff. Hope you had a good time but guess you weren't overly impressed with london. Well here's a suggestion .....nextime spend at least 2-3 weeks and let me know when you come you DARE not!!!
Well said.
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