It's difficult to know how to write about what we did on Friday. From one perspective, we did a great deal. From another, we did almost nothing. Or rather, we saw a lot of different things, but none of them at any great depth. Therefore, I will write a blog post of similar lack of depth.
We took the Underground to the Westminster station and headed along the Thames for a bit until we could see the London Eye on the other side of the river and decide that we had absolutely no desire to ride it. The we headed back the other direction, past Big Ben and Parliament, until we got to Victoria Tower Gardens where we pulled out our delectable ham and cheese sandwiches and oranges for lunch.
After lunch we headed back through the Little Dean's Yard at Westminster Abbey toward the St James Underground Station to meet friends who wanted to show us a little more of London. We headed through Saint James Park to Buckingham Palace, then over to Trafalgar Square before spending half an hour (much too long, according to Cherry) in the National Galleries looking at paintings. Then it was off through shopping and theater districts to Piccadilly Circus and finally Oxford Circus, where we caught the underground back to the flat.
I'm not really sure what to say beyond that. It felt like we saw a lot of things, but so quickly that none of us really had time to process any of it, which meant that it kind of felt like we didn't see much of anything. The Parliament complex is impressive, at least from the outside. Since we couldn't get in, it's entirely possible that the inside is decorated entirely in mauve and aqua. Sapphire was amused by the signs in Saint James Park admonishing us not to feed the pelicans, given that, while there were lots (and lots) of water birds present, none of them were pelicans.
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