2. Pre departure day in London and the journey begins.
Thankfully all our travel arrangements to London went according to plan and we had plenty of time to do a few things around the city.
As I alluded to earlier, our journey is commencing at the Greenwich Meridian. The photos attached show the line denoting 0 degrees longitude although it's not quite in agreement with GPS technology. The actual line goes through the bin store but according to the experts, it was a pretty good calculation for 19th century instrumentation.
We managed to squeeze in a bit of shopping and sightseeing...London didn't seem to be too busy, which is always a bonus.
Being the day before the originally stated Brexit date and with all the goings on in the corridors of power a quick wander down to Parliament Square was called for, just to see if there was anybody famous coming or going. A couple of camera crews were by the gates at Downing Street but all we saw was a non-descript woman in a nice red coat exiting Number 10. We pondered that she might have been the lady brought in to feed Larry the Cat, seeing as his Owner has rather a lot on her plate at the moment. This being so, Larry would now have a plateful too.
Moving onward we came to the flag waving Brexit rabble outside the Houses of Parliament and the broadcasting company gazebos overlooking said rabble. Having failed to see Theresa May at Downing Street, I concluded that the second best thing would be to see Laura Kuenssberg giving a piece to camera....but she was nowhere to be seen either. All rather disappointing really.
So now we are back at our hotel and looking forward to our flight tomorrow to Los Angeles.
As I alluded to earlier, our journey is commencing at the Greenwich Meridian. The photos attached show the line denoting 0 degrees longitude although it's not quite in agreement with GPS technology. The actual line goes through the bin store but according to the experts, it was a pretty good calculation for 19th century instrumentation.
We managed to squeeze in a bit of shopping and sightseeing...London didn't seem to be too busy, which is always a bonus.
Being the day before the originally stated Brexit date and with all the goings on in the corridors of power a quick wander down to Parliament Square was called for, just to see if there was anybody famous coming or going. A couple of camera crews were by the gates at Downing Street but all we saw was a non-descript woman in a nice red coat exiting Number 10. We pondered that she might have been the lady brought in to feed Larry the Cat, seeing as his Owner has rather a lot on her plate at the moment. This being so, Larry would now have a plateful too.
Moving onward we came to the flag waving Brexit rabble outside the Houses of Parliament and the broadcasting company gazebos overlooking said rabble. Having failed to see Theresa May at Downing Street, I concluded that the second best thing would be to see Laura Kuenssberg giving a piece to camera....but she was nowhere to be seen either. All rather disappointing really.
So now we are back at our hotel and looking forward to our flight tomorrow to Los Angeles.
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