All ready for another day of touring.....come join us
Waiting for our train ☺
Into the city again and took this snap and even caught a plane flying over Parliament
Waiting for our ferry
Sitting up the top and back
Going past the eye
Many bridges up ahead so get ready lol
Looking back
Hungerford bridge with Golden Jubilee Footbridges either side
Looking back again
You can see another ferry just up ahead of us
Going under Blackfriars bridge
Some of the bridges are quite close to each other
Millennium footbridge
St Paul's Cathedral
Next up Southwark Bridge
The Anchor pub has been here for over 800 years
And they pointed out this neat ship... a replica of Sir Frances Drakes Golden Hinde
Next one "London Bridge" and of course not the original
Interesting read here via wiki/London_Bridge
HMAS Belfast HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy, currently permanently moored on the River Thames in London, England, and operated by the Imperial War Museum
Look Tower bridge
The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London.
More of Tower bridge
Yes it does open up but mostly at night to let larger ships through
Everyone was waving
Looking back.....we traveled to Greenwich and did a bit of touristy things there
We saw this mighty boat
Discover what life was like on board Cutty Sark, the world’s only surviving tea clipper, and fastest ship of her time - now an award-winning visitor attraction in Greenwich
We did not go inside
Had lunch at this tavern
Yes chicken wings for me
Bangers for him
Neat little streets here
Had a wee look around the market
A ship in a bottle and look a plane flying over too
zoomed
Just before midday the ball above this clock is lifted and exactly at midday Greenwich meantime the ball drops and this is a visual signal to the ships to reset their chronometers
They still do this more for the tourists, we of course missed it lol
View back down from this mighty hill in Greewich
As it says, East Longitude and West Longitude
So we are hemispheres apart lol
There is that red ball above the clock
Merry go round
and one of those really old slides
On our way back on the Ferry they showed us where "Ian McKellen" lives with the gold statue
and a pub he owns called The Grapes
survived the Blitz bombing of the Second World War and retains the friendly atmosphere of a “local” for Limehouse residents, where visitors are always welcome in the bars and upstairs dining room
See the lions head....it judges the river levels and if the "lion is drinking then London is sinking"
They actually have Thames tidal barriers to stop if getting to high
The Gold Eagle
is a memorial to World War 1 members of, mainly, the Royal Flying Corps (part of the Army) and the Royal Naval Air Service
We then walked to pick up tickets for a live show we were going to the following night
In our hands and looking forward to it
Down the tube waiting for train back
Paul filming lol
Almost to the end of this trip and I have really had to use my brain lol
xoxoxoxo
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