Byron in London

Day 1

First day back and the weather was miserable - typical London weather. In a way it was a good thing cos Byron was getting a misrepresentation, he was beginning to think that sunshine is the norm. We did a hop-on-hop-off bus tour and we mananged to stay on the top for the whole tour even though it was cold and rainy.

We went into Hamleys and even though I have been in London since Jan I had not been there yet. It took me so long to go through all the cool toys that I advised Byron to move on to Picadilly Circus without me and caught up to him there. He stood in the rain for this pic so it makes kinda special.

At Trafalgar Square Byron took his opportunity to feed the pigeons even though it is illegal. He said that the pigeons are quite ruthless and they don't care much if they land up pecking your hand instead of the food.

The Knights Templar had dragon statues placed at the entrance/exits to the old London centre. We also went to the Templar Church but it was closed. So instead took pics outside and I even tried knocking on the door in the hopes of getting inside.

Tower bridge is as awesome as always and Byron managed to stretch across the bridge, hands on each tower. Hee hee hee. We went on the cruise on the Thames and because it was right at the end of the day it was quite empty, was pretty cool. Managed to hear the commentry this time.

Day 2 (Windsor, Bath, Stonehenge)

Did a day tour to Windsor Castle, Bath and Stonehenge. The places were all good but it was too much for one day and in general neither Byron nor myself were impressed with Evan Evans Tours.

We started off at Windsor Castle, lots of pretty gardens, lots of big rooms, and even a big doll house and a pretty church.

We managed to see the changing of the guards and it was quite funny there was this one guard who had his hat on skew. We went into the church in the middle of it all but apparently he was taken aside and given a very stern talking to for not being presentable. He is the guard that is all alone by the little guard hut thingy.

I noticed while we were there that alot of planes fly overhead and are generally still very low in the sky - I wonder how much help these guards would be if one of the planes just flew into the castle?

The next stop for our bus was Bath where we had lunch. We bought some pies and went and sat on the grass in the botanical gardens. Bath is very pretty, and is an absolutely lovely little town. The pigeons in the gardens were very friendly when you offered them pringles. There was one little pigeon with a leg and a stub and he hobbled as quickly as he can to get to the pringles but unless he had a head start he inevitably lost out. :( Shame he was really cute though. One of the flower beds in the garden was designed to be a picture of a flower with bees on it - REALLY cool.

After our lunch in the botanical gardens we did a little walking around before meeting back at our our bus to get tickets for the Roman Baths.

In the Roman Baths we saw lots of old carvings and statues, the baths were seen as a very sacred area. It makes sense back then they did not understand where this heated water came from. It was pretty cool though, all the references to the past describing how people would come from far and wide in the hopes of being cured by the water. Being there, I could actually picture it in my head like a movie. Probably just been watching too many movies. ;)

From Bath we went to Stonehenge, my landlords told me the night before that they think it is a very spooooooky area. I reckon it is kinda cool how these enormous rocks are just standing there in the middle of nowhere but I wouldn't really call it spooky. It was kinda wierd though how the birds all collect themselves at the top of the stones, and then for no apparent reason all fly off at the same time. After circing all together for a couple of minutes they all settle again simultaneously. Wierd but I didn't get any funny spooooky feelings while I was there.

We got back from our tour and went walking through London, got some really beautiful night shots of London.





Departure :(
A day that started with packing bags. Byron packed up all his stuff, I packed up the stuff I wanted Byron to take home for me. We then went to Green Park and had a picnic. Green Park is by Bucking ham Palace so after Byron finshed getting his beauty sleep and making himself look pretty by picking flowers we went to get photos of Buckingham Palace.

After our afternoon of relaxing we went to the airport and I had to say goodbye. Missing home like crazy, so it was difficult.