Cheers guys.........I'm sitting in the foyer/bar/lounge/people meeting room..........I don't know what the English call it but it's the social spot of the hotel where you can buy/enjoy light or substantial snacks/drinks...soft or hard/hot/cold.../use the internet to chat/book another hotel/read your emails/watch the soccer/ or simply update your blog....all of which I am doing/have done/ within the last 2 hours!!!!!!!
I have had another amazingly wonderful day of fun/ adventure/ meeting travellers/ and climbing steep learning curves as I negotiated London's treasures via the ............yes..........the scenic route!
I had done my homework....studied the tourist maps and the relevant information pertaining to the journey I planned to take today. I wasn't surprised, however when, having arrived at Buckingham Palace well ahead of the designated time...10am....(Dad was proud of me I'm sure!) for the start of the Palace tour, I discovered that the tour started at Trafalgar Square...NOT Buckingham Palace as I had interpreted from the Big Red Bus Tour guide brochure!!! I wasn't fazed as I was still euphoric from the familiar feeling I experience as I wandered through Hyde Park. I strode alongside the many energetic locals/travellers either making their way to work/fulfilling their commitment to themselves to run Hyde Park/swimming the Icebergers' laps in the Serpentine lake which snakes it way through Hyde Park/ exercising their favorite Nag by cantering kilometre upon kilometre through the blossoming gardens and luscious greenery/cycling their expensive, treasured cycles
that have been in hibernation until now that the sun and blossoms have returned...or simply doing what I was doing....being the typical tourist making a bee-line for Buckingham Palace where the Changing of the Guards was imminent!I decided that the Fran walking tour was far more interesting than the BRBT walking guide could have so having combed every inch of the amazing BP precinct and loving the fact that I WAS ACTUALLY there and not just seeing it through someone else's pics or documentary.....I recorded the event by harassing other tourists and getting them to take my pic in front of the relevant exciting buildings...etc...(of course I reciprocated by pointing and shooting their cameras at them too!) and headed off to discover the 'off the beaten track' details other tourists would definitely have missed!! I so loved my walk to Trafalgar Square...sun shining/ London shining/ Fran blossoming in the excitment of discovery!
PS I have just realised that Kelly's battery is just about to die.....and the recharger is up on 2nd floor room #202....and there is no internet connection up there....so I will say hold your breath and wait for the rest of my adventure.....
BUT before I go.....even though it's nearly bedtime for me.....all of you in Aus...are just waking up and it's the 29th April.....................
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR EILY.... have a GREAT one....I'm sure those two boys in your life will look after you............and if they don't then they will have MEEEE to answer to.....I DON'T CARE that one is my bestest BIL or that they are now both TALLER than me...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously.............HAVE a GREAT day.....and when I wake up.....and it's a respectable hour.....I will have a celebratory drink for you........Definitely a Johnny Red....if I can find one! Love you Darling...xxxxxxx
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