Sunday 27 July 2015 Today we slept in - oh bliss! Didnt head down to breakfast until just before 9am but not many people around. Dont know if Kev has mentioned but it is a regular United Nations in the dining room. Not many people speaking English believe it or not! Anyway off out we headed towards the Albert Hall. Not so easy to get there as it is a bit in "no man's land" but we went to South Kensington and then negotiated about 800 meters of tunnel t...

26 July 2015 Today we had tickets for Buck Palace so I had to do the organising! We had an early start as had to be at the Palace by 9.30am for tour starting time of 9.45am. Tube to Victoria station then walked along Buckingham Palace Road for about 10 minutes to the side gates of the Palace. There were hundreds of people heading the same way as it was the opening day for the Palace. It is open from today until end of September. From the number of peopl...

Friday 24th July Windsor Castle We changed our original planned day as we awoke to rain. I have finally used the umbrella that I have carried to Europe the past couple of times. So it was rain coats and umbrella as we set off to Paddington Station to catch the train to Windsor. We had to change trains at Slough as our fast train was going to Oxford. We sat next to a couple who lived in Jersey and I had a good chat with the chap who was obvious...

Thursday 23rd July afternoon. We decided to get the tube to Tower Hill and walk over Tower Bridge to Southwark for a walk along the Thames and to have some lunch. There were lots of people doing much the same thing. The view from the bridge of the Tower of London and of both directions up and down the Thames was great. We walked past a number of warehouses in previous life which had been converted to apartments and restaurants at river walk...

Thursday 23rd July This morning we went back to Soho to go to the Liberty shop. Col had suggested to Jan that it is a not to be missed place for ladies to visit. We got the tube from Lancaster gate to Oxford Circus and walked a short distance to Carnaby Street. We got there way too early as the shops don't open until 10.00am so went to see if we could get a good coffee at a place called Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. Good choic...