Today, We Go To London!

The best tours are not those that have you whizz by in a bus, stopping at the major shopping centres for 2 hours so you can grab the bargains and then continuing on back to the hotel.

The best tours are done on foot.

And that was what I got today: a personal tour of London (oh well, a part of it anyway) on foot.

Highlights

King's Cross Underground Station

St Paul's Cathedral... and erm..yeah, it's taken through the window of the bus

Bum of a London Cab...

Bum of a London Bus - the old-fashioned ones you see on the postcards

Standing on (new) London Bridge with the Tower Bridge in the background...

The "old" London Bridge was sold to an American for $2,460,000 =)

The bridge...erm, how do I say this.. reminds me of Benjamin Sheares Bridge.

Tower Bridge close up...

Gates to Downing Street...

Other places we saw:

St Katherine's Dock (ooohhhh...)

Clarence House

St James' Palace

Buckingham Palace

Grounds of Kensington Palace

Hyde Park

Park Lane

Oxford Street

Oxford Street is shopaholics heaven.

A long long loooong street (5-6 bus-stops on the whole street?)

On the street alone:

GAP x 2, Marks & Spencers x 2, Topshop x 2, H&M x 2, HMV x 2

Vodaphone, Selfridges, Virgin Megastore, PC World

and these are all HUGE shops...

Large doors, high ceilings, 2-3times the size of the usual shop.

Summary: I saw loads... not inch by inch obviously but I had a very knowledgeable guide that was able to tell me the history of the places so it was a very good tour...

Following that full day tour, we had a yum-yum-yummy Chinese dinner and to end off the evening, we went for a concert in the Royal Albert Hall...

...to hear Christmas Carols by the King's College Choir.

Elli liked the King's College Choir

Elli's dad, Hugh and I liked the orchestra better.

Something funny happened during the concert...

The handphone of the lady in the row in front of us went off during the concert and amazingly, the people who were sitting in the same row as her (some as near as 3 seats away from her) turned to look behind to find the source of the offending noise.

At this point, I almost burst out laughing.

Eh, hello?

Tell me how you enjoy the orchestra and the choir if you cannot even identify the "general direction" of where a loud sound comes from? *shakes head*

Anyway, that concludes my full and exciting day! =)

3 days to Christmas!!!!