Thursday, 25 July 2013

Westminster Abbey and surrounding area

What a noisy hotel...the room is close to the elevator and it ran constantly all night. Felt like putting an "out of order" sign on the doors. Anyway, eventually I feel asleep and even slept in to 7am.
I decided to head off to the subway at Kensington to travel to Westminster Abbey. Naturally there was a queue but only a little one, so was happy to wait for 20 minutes.
WOW! So glad I did, because it was spectacular, just as I had imagined. So many tombs of kings and queens, such as Richard I and II, Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth and her half sister, Queen Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Charles Darwin, Izaac Newton....just too many to mention. Ofcourse, the Abbey itself was amazing. The architecture mind blowing. Just loved it!
A few hours of exploring, I decided to go for another walk, across the Bridge Rd bridge, along the Embankment. I considered joining the queue to visit the Dungeons of London but no, the queue was way too long, even for me. So I crossed the next bridge, and walked back along the other side of the river. It wasn't too crowded and I enjoyed the stroll.
I then got on the hop on/ hop off bus for a few loops around the city before having enough and feeling a bit queasy, not having taken my travel sickness tabs. So back to the tube to head to Kensington and then the hotel.
Tomorrow, off to Oxford, Stratford and Warwick Castle for the day.