London

 Kemble station, 15ish minutes from our cottage in Chedworth.  I gotta hand it to the English, their trains run on-time!

Dawn, with her omnipresent smile and camera, as we wait for the train to London.

The Jubilee Walkway, which we walked and walked and walked and still didn't get to where we were headed.  But, it was fun to see these little markers all over the city.



Whhhhyyyyy is there a Notre Dame flag flying in London?

Westminster Abby was incredible. Did you know that Mary, Queen of Scots, is buried just across from Elizabeth I?  The Poets' Corner was pretty cool, too.  Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Henry James.

It was a very pretty day - much warmer than we expected it to be.

Hearing Big Ben chime the hour was fun.

Hmmmm.... which way to go?

To the Palace!!  And this isn't even the biggest set of gates. 

Gate detail.  I need to look up what the unicorn symbolizes.

The balcony!  The balcony!  It's smaller than I thought it would be.

Next time, I gotta go up in this! 

Paddington Bear at Paddington Station.

We're alive!

So, yeeeeaaaahhh, not much access to wifi so far.  Thank goodness for Starbucks!

Here's a recap:

We flew.

We drank.  Rose & Crown pub in bath.

 We checked into our cottage in Chedworth.

Look kids, there's Big Ben!  Actually, it's St. Steven's Tower.  Big Ben is the bell inside.

Lee made friends with a very nice South Yorkshire fellow outside 10 Downing Street.

We rode the bumper cars on Brighton Pier.

We saw the Seven Sisters Cliffs.

We saw the sun rise through Stonehenge.

We re-enacted our favorite movie scenes: "God!  And King Richard!"

We interacted with Woodhenge.

We drank beer at lunch in Oxford.

And now, we're off to Blenheim Palace, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and maybe Wales!

Cheers, yeah, bye!