Sunday Morning...D-day..(departure that is)

Tow path on Regent Canal

Camden markets

Thames at low tide

Our bus rear-end another bus

caw

Lots of Saturday cricket matches around Bath

Cool Bath street

2000 yr. old lichen?

Can't imagine how Bood and Betty went around the world. Traveling is hard work. Although we jammed a lot in, there's such a learning curve wherever you go even within the same proximity.  After 9 days we feel like we can get around/in/out of London pretty well. We have walked, run (hobbled in my case),biked,cabbed,boated,ferried,punted,trained,tubed(subway),bused and flown.

Homeward bound

Regent Canal, NW Central London

Camden Markets at the end of the canal ride. Nope...not kiddin'.

Night bike tour. A German family of 3, a German college student and The Crows.

Ultra-elite area close to Westminster. Mostly members of parliment. Very rare gas-lit street.

Canal (out of order)

That's a full moon on the rise.

Bath...2000 yrs. old

Cool display using holograph with 2000 yr. old pool.

What a great trip today and a great day to finish.  Last night was fantastic. Ian, our Irish bike-tour guide was tremendous. What a great way to see London. Today we spent the day in Bath. Just great. Got home at 10:00 pm and I made a gourmet meal with the food we had left.  Stanley is still with us and like all things London, takes the same routes and is on time.  Loved our time here and can't wait to get home.

Museums...

Took this shot of The Stones before I was told no photos in The National Portrait Gallery

Trafalgar Square

Cool 'John Heidecker' wall outside National Gallery

A group of French tourists being entranced by a squirrel...nuff said.

Map room at Churchill War Museum...everyone walked out and left the rooms as/is until 1970. Almost everything is as they found it.

10 Downing

Royal Albert Hall. We saw the London Symphony Orchestra and a brilliant Croatian pianist, Dejan Lazic.

  Covered a lot of territory today: The British Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery, The Winston Churchill War Room and a concert at The Royal Albert Hall. We left the concert at Intermission 'cause our "dogs" were just too tired to stand any longer. We stood because the only available tickets were 'Arena' for 5Lb.  We're now listening to the second half live on BBC 3.

Tea With The Queen

Nope, not home...Union Jack displayed

Harrads

They love their "crackers", as in fire crackers? Filled with goodies.

Aunt Jamima Syrup, yum yum.

Scotch egg, Inari,Vegetable tempura,onion Bhaji,shimo

  The Queen's got some nice digs but we didn't get invited for tea.  Two things that struck me, (one) The castle sits right in the village...I thought it would be surrounded by lawns, gardens, etc. It's virtually "right there", on about half its exposure. The other half is acres and acres. (two)Windsor is directly in the flight path of Heathrow take-off.
  We rented bikes and rode the countryside around Windsor and had a picnic lunch on the Thames.
  Stopped at Harrads on the way home. We got "take-away" for tea.(dinner)  We've signed up for a Friday night-time bike tour of London IF the riots don't cancel it. Tonight's tour was canceled. Arrests are now quelling a lot of the riot enthusiasm.  16,000 bobbys on duty instead of the usual 2000.  Remember, they only carry a stick...except for the new armor plated riot vehicle that they drive into the crowd.  Testing it out soon.
  The weather has been perfect!
  Happy Birthday Boody!!

This Was The Week That Was or... London is a riot...really!

Bobby trying to get people off wall.

The world economy must still be pretty good, lots of visitors.

More changing of the guard.

Construction is everywhere...Olympics prep.

Culture.

Tower of London...Tre'-bu-chet.

"Eye-eye cap'n"  or  "If you build it they will come".

  We can handle the enormous ubiquitous crowds.  We can handle the riots and police now everywhere.  We can handle our Wembley Stadium tickets for Holland vs England being canceled.  What some of us can't handle is our flat mate.  I believe he is just a butler but Sarah insists he's a rodent.  Stanley is very cute and quite proper but he may have to go.  With open windows and no screens, I just assume the butlers come and go as they please.

Europe Heaven and Hell

   Our Australian waitress asked us the other night if we'd heard of the European Heaven and Hell. Here goes:
European Heaven: English police (friendly/carry only a stick)  
                             French food                                                                   
                             German trains                                                              
                             Italian lovers                                                                  
                             Swiss organization

Europe Hell:          English Food
                             French trains
                            German police
                            Italian organization
                            Swiss lovers                                                
  After 3 days I understand the dig about English food(and this from our waitress!).  Sassy had a tomato basil soup today in Cambridge and if you were blindfolded and tasted it you would not be able to tell what on earth it was except warm.  We now suspicion that the general lack of overweight English compared to Americans must be the food.

Cambridge

"Oh the humanity!" First sight stepping out of the train station...student bikes.

Punting on the canal behind the colleges

                                        

Cambridge was like China today. At least 1/2 the heads were Asian and most of them were school age.  This one was punting a boat and fell in.

                             

"Chariots of Fire"...cool.

                                 

The members of Pink Floyd first met here.

Evening at the pub

                  Top Gear: Our street looks like the spot where they park the "hot" cars @ Trump Nat.

                                       Kate Heidecker's place.

                              Sassy with a pint. (Naturally..I had to help her finish it)

                                      Obligatory food pic ala B@B

 Drunken Italians outside our window at the pub. The guy on the left was demonstrating his "stupid-human-trick" of making a fist and having his pinky finger stick up like he was gripping a tiny banana. The guy in grey was trying to copy him.  I tapped on the window and demonstrated the, "removable index finger". The reaction was priceless. The grey shirted fellow looked at me in mock disgust and showed me, "indeed, we all know this trick" and demonstrated he could do it. A short while later the girl sitting behind the beer wrapped on the window and demonstrated an Italian gesture of all the fingertips together which I looked up to mean, "you fool" (nice girl). I returned the gesture. She was pretty far gone.

Our waitress was from Brisbane, Australia. She had spent a year in Inverloch!