Tubeless Tuesday

 All of our sightseeing was relatively close to us so we decided to walk everywhere, however 26,893 steps and 18.3 kms walked did tire us out a bit! The upshot is that we didn't use the tube today and wouldn't you know it, but Queen Elizabeth made a visit to "our" station this morning. Oh well we would have already used it earlier in the day anyway to head off somewhere.

We started by walking directly south through Hyde Park/Kensington Park. We stopped half way through the park at the Princess Diana Memorial fountain park. It was actually pretty neat and is not a fountain in the traditional sense.

At the far end of the park is the Prince Albert Memorial. It is beautiful.

Straight across the street is the Royal Albert Hall and we lucked out and got a tour. It lasted one hour and was really interesting to hear all about its history and to see photos of the performances ( including the Beatles).

From there we walked to Harrods Department store. Holy Batman but it is big,and HUGELY expensive!

Below is a photo of Caro at a piano worth $128,000 Canadian.

The store employee said there was no problem if Caro wanted to play it, so she did!

We walked the streets of the Chelsea district on our way to the next stop. It is a beautiful area and is very expensive going by the cars parked outside!

We got to the Victoria and Albert Museum about 4 and spent an hour there. It is a tremendous museum (and is huge) but truth be told, museum burnout is starting to occur.

Next stop was across the street at the Natural History Museum. It has some really interesting displays but time and ambition were in short supply so we saw  just saw a bit.

That is a blue whale in the photo. 

It was about 5 PM by now and Caro wanted to head back to the previous museum (the V and A) to soak her feet in the courtyard pool so that is where we headed next. The photo below is a panorama shot. That courtyard is a little bit of heaven! Wonderful!

Caro wanted to walk to the west side of Kensington Palace and we ended up walking down a street full of Embassies. We noted initially that there were signs saying No Photos Allowed which we thought was odd but it soon became apparent with all the Embassies. Of the numerous Embassies there only the Israeli and the Russian had protection (there was a cop car outside the Russian one).

We were getting pretty warn out at this point but we were soon back in our neighbourhood where we ate Italian again!

As I was about to upload this blogpost a helicopter came in very low and looked to be going to the Palace. I imagine Will and/or Kate are home now!