London

We arrived in London yesterday afternoon.  The day consisted of a final two hours in the canal boat and returning it to the base.  We then travelled into Wolverhampton by taxi, and caught a fast train into London.  Tim and I traveled with all our suitcases in a taxi to our hotel (in Earl's Court for those who know London) and the others all came on trains in the London underground system.

Today Mrs McLeay and I are back by ourselves and we spent many hours looking around London.  Here are some of the things we have seen:

We walked down the mall to Buckingham Palace and watched the changing of the guard.  The flag was flying above the palace.  Do you know what that means?   There was a very large crowd of people.  One of the things we noticed was hearing so many different languages.  In fact, it seemed quite unusual to hear English from time to time.

Here I am with two famous London things behind me.  The big red double decker bus and the Nelson Column.  Last night we traveled by double decker bus over to Regent Street and there were thousands of people on the streets.  This is a very big city and there are soo many people.

Big Ben is probably the most famous clock tower in the world.  We walked for many kilometres around the city and it was great to see Big Ben as a land mark.

The "London Eye" is a wonderful way to see London from way up high.  It took us about 30 minutes to go around once and from up high we could see all over the city