London perfection

How lucky am I that Margot lives in London?  Not only do I get quality friend time, but get to see more of this beautiful city at the same time.  And this latest trip saw London at its finest - clear blue skies, a warm 15 degrees, spring flowers and not a breath of wind.

We walked and rode all over - through St James's Park to Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Monument, past Big Ben and over Westminster Bridge, along the Thames to the Borough Markets, over the Millennium Bridge to St Paul's, back over the Millennium Bridge and further along to the Tower Bridge. And that was just day one.  Phew!

Here are some of the sights we saw along the way.....

St James's Park

Looking towards Big Ben from Trafalgar Square

The Tower of London and the Tower Bridge

Very red buses and very green grass near St Paul's Cathedral

Tall pointy things and bottom right - taken from bike whilst paused briefly at lights, Margot is up ahead
waiting for me to catch up.

More London sights

And then, after all that nipping around we stopped for a rest and a Pimms or two here - a gorgeous pub by the side of a gorgeous canal just near the Warwick Avenue station on the Bakerloo line.  

Lovely

And then there was day 2 - which was all about Buckingham Palace.  Margot had a job interview to go to so I hung around here.  Lucky me - there was a parade of Beefeaters, or as Emily likes to call them, Beef Heads. I've googled and according to one source the name Beefeater is most likely to have originated from the time when the Yeomen Warders at the Tower were paid part of their salary with chunks of beef!

What a glorious sight!  London at it's best J