Big Bus Company

Mom is now with me and I can officially do some London site seeing without feeling too lonely. ;) Site seeing is exactly what we did. We got tickets for a hop-on-hop-off bus tour and literally spent the WHOLE day hopping-on and hopping-off…hence the name. Heeheehee. Since mom and I did this all together I decided that we had to ‘blog’ it together as well.

We started our tour at Green Park and the first time we hopped off was at Trafalgar Square where “Heather HAD TO MAKE A PHONE CALL” joke joke. But we just had to take a pic at the call box. We also had some dude take a photo of Heather and I together in front of the fountain as firstly, it was too cold to go for a swim and secondly it is illegal to swim there now.

We have included quite a few pics of Trafalgar Square, I was hoping to see a green Square because they apparently laid grass two days before to promote a greener England. It was published in the Metro but I wonder if it was some new type of ‘April Fools’.

Pigeons can still be seen at The Square even though it is now apparently also illegal to feed them and we did see a few people throwing bread crumbs down for them.

Our next stop on our journey was going to be Big Ben but we managed to catch a multi-language bus instead of getting back onto a live commentary bus. We got some earphones and started listening to recorded commentary which we both found really confusing and off putting so we just got off at the next stop to wait for another bus. This is where we saw the horse guards which landed up being a cool stop to make even though it was an accident.

I managed to get Heather to pose with a few of the guards and I also managed to get into a few of the pics. It was while we were here that we bought tickets to see the Trooping the Colour. I am really looking forward to this event, it will take place just after I get back to Heather after having been in Wales.

While at the Horse Guards there was a guard who was just marching up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down , up and down ... this tiny little strech. Was really funny and I took a video clip of it will try email it but not sure if its too big. Mom says it was probably sentry duty - imagine getting paid to do that all day.

Now off to Big Ben as originally planned. We arrived just in time to hear Big Ben strike 12 and I discovered that my watch was exactly 5 min fast. The gong always makes me think of a ‘war cry’ we sang in Netball when the other team scored - “Ding dong, ding dong something went wrong, don’t get uptight, it will come right.”

^ Houses of Parliment

After getting off the bus at the London Eye, we made a boo boo again and got onto a bus that missed a number of the stops, so our next stop turned out to be Buckingham Palace. Well, as you can see in the attached photo, I had to unlock the gates to allow Heather to enter my palace.

Back at the starting point, Green Park, and we had to change buses to start the route again and fill in the gaps that we missed earlier. We got ourselves a hot dog with everything on it – won’t do that again. Took a pic of London Eye as we drove past and got off at St Pauls Cathedral, where mom nearly got arrested. lol

I had to take a photo inside the Cathedral - totally unaware that photo’s are not allowed to be taken inside. It is not the best of shots but when you think it is probably one of a kind I suppose it will have to do.

Last stop and we were TOTALLY ready to go home was our Thames River Cruise from Tower Millennium Pier to Westminster Pier. Unfortunately it was raining so we were forced inside but not before getting a pic of Tower Bridge with one of OUR busses in the centre.

^ Not quite a Mediteranean cruise but here we are.