FUN-travel: London, UK – Full Day
February 17, 2015 by Susan Clarke
Day 55 – Monday, August 25 – London, England – Full Day – steady rain – high 50’s
What I LIKE
- 7:45 – Chris brings Costa coffee from terminal
- 9:30 – ready for big adventure
- *– got tickets on Heathrow express train & Underground pass
- 10:00 – depart
- 10:20 – arrive main station (takes 70 mins on cheaper one)
- **10:45 – nice man helps direct us to easiest train
- 10:55 – on train & easy to read/well marked directions
- ***11:10 – arrive Tower Hill station for Tower of London
- 11:30 – Starbuck’s break w/egg sandwich
- 12:20 – finally find pizza place!
FUN-food – Pizza Express – Toscana w/chili/fennel sausage, caprese salad, 2 sodas = $30
- 1:00 – line much shorter (but still long) – see courtyard where Anne was beheaded
- – (along w/Catherine, Henry VIII’s 5th wife) – see Crown Jewels (line only takes 20 mins)
- – walk through several buildings
- 3:15 – ready to be dry – head to station
- 3:45 – train from Paddington
- 4:15 – back to hotel for nap
- 7:30 – dinner @ Sofitel – Caesar salad, Thai green curry w/chicken – Drostdy 2013 South African Merlot = $120
- 11:30 – night night
What I DON’T LIKE
- *costs $143
- **10:45 – our stop is under construction
- – have to walk out to get Green line – light rain
- ***huge line waiting to get in – it’s a Bank Holiday!
FUN-fact – the Tower of London is a medieval Palace that was built in 1078.
More FF – The ravens of the Tower of London are a group of captive common ravens which live there. The group comprises at least seven individuals. The presence of the ravens is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that “If the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.”
