Our 2nd Day in London October 1, 2007

Our second day in London was very wet ! Our hotel served a traditional english breakfast - 2 eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, and either bean or tomatoes. We enjoyed the "free" breakfast and left for the day.

We first walked to Hyde Park again, this time to the west to see Kensington Palace.

Kensington is where Queen Victoria lived. We then took the tube to Abby road as you can't visit London according to Scott and not visit Abby road Studios. So here is the photo of Scott and the "Cross Walk". We realized once we got home that the photo was taken from the wrong direction compared with the album cover.From Abby Road we took the tube to Greenwich where the Millennium dome is. They are holding the opening and closing ceremonies here for the Olympics in a couple of summers. The company that is sponsoring this facility is a technology company called O2. So this dome is now called the O2.
From the O2 we took a bus to the Royal Observatory, to the "Beginning and End of Time" The Prime Meridian (or Greenwich Mean Time). At this point it was raining so hard and we are pretty much soaked.

After our soaking in Greenwich we took the bus back to the O2 and then the tube to the Tower of London. Thank goodness we got a week long unlimited transit pass (the Oyster card, we paid 3 pounds each just for the card then put money on them, so if anyone is heading to London and wants to use the Oyster Card let us know and you can take our cards and put your own money on them).

We didn't go into the Tower of London as Scott and I decided that 16 pounds (32 Canadian dollars) was too much. The weather had improved by this point so we walked down the river Thames across the Tower Bridge and along the river.

Once stop we did on our walk along the Thames was to visit Hayes Galleria. This is an out door mall with a large arched glass roof, it was quite interesting.

One of the other sights was the Globe Theatre, of course this is just a reconstruction but neat to see.
After quite a walk and another short tube ride we ended up at the London Eye. This was the one thing Scott and I both wanted to do/see. The ride around took about half an hour and the views were fantastic.

We ended our day by walking back over the river to Big Ben and Westminster Abby and taking the tube back to Paddington Station to our hotel. Our dinner was at a small Greek restaurant a few blocks from our hotel and of course we finished the evening by visiting a pub so Scott could have a few Ales.