Wednesday 22nd July Today was going to be a more relaxing day so we were going down to Kensington Palace as Jannie really wanted to see inside and it wasn't open on Sunday when we walked past. Stopped off for Another Awful Coffee, AAC at the cafe in the palace. We used our London Pass' so got in free. It was quite dark inside. Lots of nice painting in huge frames, glass cabinets filled with dresses from down the ages that the royals wore, lot...

Thursday 23rd July Have I told you about the Paddington Hotel? It is located in Bayswater on Gloucester Terrace and is about a 10 minute walk to Paddington Station and a 5 minute walk to Lancaster Gate Tube Station. Hyde Park and Kensington Park are also only a 5 minute walk away. The hotel has 17 rooms and is a four story walk up. Meaning that there is no lift. Our room 709 in on the second floor and 43 steps from the lobby, 49 s...

Tuesday 21st July Got up and went down to breakfast and afterwards walked up to Edgeware Road tube station but before we got on the train to go to Temple Station tried coffee at Costas whom we had had a good recommendation of. Jannies bucket of flat white was ok but they still have a long way to go to get to my standard at home. We had another "Free" walk booked in and this time we were to do the Old London Town walk. It had been re...

Monday 20th July Got up refreshed this morning and ventured down to the breakfast room in the basement. The Paddington hotel is floor floors up and one down with no lift! We are on the second floor so it's 56 steps up from the breakfast room. We will get fit. Went and organised a dental appointment for Jannie tomorrow morning at 9.00am. Then got the tube to Piccadilly Circus which is on the Bakerloo Line so no chang...

Sunday 19th July The flight on our Airbus A380 was delayed by about half an hour and finally left Singapore at 00.30am. The A380 is the biggest and most efficient plane in the Singapore Airlines fleet and has two decks which holds 471 passengers. Had supper and the plane was dimmed down and most went to sleep or tried to. London seems to be a lot further away than it was previously as the 14 hour flight really too...