Dan & Clay

Dan & Clay

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Day 17 - London

We caught the hop on hop off bus and did a tour of London City.

We got to see heaps of things from the top of the double decker open top bus, and the tour lady was really good. We learnt what the song ring a ring a rosie ment and where celebrities live and have worked.

We jumped off at Hamley's toy shop. This must be the happiest place on earth. There are people employed just to play with the toys all day. There are 5 floors of awesome toys and out of all of this only 1 small section has computer games. So awesome!




Jumping back on the bus we headed to St Paul's Cathedral. This is where Charles and Diana were married. We were again not able to take photos. The domed roof was so beautifully painted and we climbed right to the top of the domed roof. I must admit, I was extreemly scared and didn't spend much time out on the top platform, but the view was awesome.



We went down to the crypt and checked out all the memorial stones and tombs situated on the floors and walls of the cathedral. This was strange for us to see that people were buried within the church floor as we both had always believed that it was disrespectful to walk on the graves of others.

After St Pauls we were off to Harrods. WOW! It must be the biggest and most luxurious shop in the whole wide world. There were floors upon floors of things to buy. Everything from evening and wedding dresses through to food and the largest prawns I have ever seen. They even have their own souvenir shop too.



After being kicked out of Harrods at closing time, we wondered home via a pub of course. I had chicken and veg for dinner and Clay had a steak. The steak had a really strange taste to it, almost as if it was off. But on sending it back we were told that this is normal, and when they sent out a replacement it tasted the same. I really don;t know how so many Aussies live in London without the ability to have a great tasting steak.



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