Adventure continues

Yesterday afternoon was taken up with a coach trip out of town to the Stonehenge, a place where even Gosia felt young. The oldest of the stone structures are over 5,000 years old but beyond that nobody seems to know much about the how or why, and so the audio guide was a bit like the stalling part on Australian Idol before they announce the result - a bit light for content.

Nonetheless, the place was fantastic to see, even sans ghosts. Gosia does claim she can add to the myth of UFO's frequenting the area with this photo:



The stones were actually a little smaller that we thought they would be (largest about 6m high). Apart from the stones, the landscape is dead flat, green, wet and boring as buggery so we caught 40 winks on the way back to London.



Today started with a walk around the heart of town to see Large Ben himself, Westminster Abbey (where apparently the second wedding of the century took place last year) and a few other bits and pieces.





Strolled up to Trafalgar Square and took a few photos and got up close with the Labralions. Apparently, the artist who sculpted them had never actually seen a lion and so he modeled their hind legs and posture on his pet dogs. Hence, London's guard lions look more like begging guide dogs in some respects.






After a bit of walking in the rain we decided it was time for some nourishment so we went to Coventry Market and found a pub with an ideal Steak & Ale pie with mash and a pint or two.



Next up was a lap on the London Eye which put us far closer to the grey soup of cloud cover that seems to be permanently over the city. Despite gloomy conditions it was well worth the ride and gave a great perspective of greater London area.






Interesting fact - blue plaques on the walls in London indicate the former residence of someone who
a) was famous
b) is dead, and
c) lived at that address for more than a year.
......have seen them for all sorts of people from Alexander Pope to John Lennon and Oscar Wilde so far.

This was just one of the gems from the open top bus tour on Thursday - along with immeasurably less interesting facts about Harry Potter.

St Paul's was the last tourist stop for the day today where we ducked in for the Evensong choir recital and a bit of a captain cook. Not a bad little hangout at all.

Closed out the day with some dinner and drinks in Leicester Square with great company in Felicity, Shelley and Helen (all Aussie girls living here - Gosia worked with Shelley and Flick at Flinders physio.)




Feel like we have got a really good taste of London from our few day here and will know how to get around and how it all works for when we are next here.

Off to Paris tomorrow on the Eurostar from Kings Cross - St Pancras station at 9am, getting into Paris about lunchtime.






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