Kensington Palace & Tower of London

This morning we had coffee and a Hardy English Breakfast in our hotel, which consisted of 2 sunny side up eggs, Canadian Bacon, 1 link of sausage, half of a baked tomato, 2 tablespoon sized portions of plain baked beans, 1 teaspoon sized portion of sautéed mushrooms, orange juice , toast and coffee or tea. The coffee here is like mud, however, Robert doesn’t seem to mind. Me on the other hand, I prefer a spot of tea instead. It must be the English in me. We’ve noticed how pleasant, friendly and cordial the English natives are in our travels. Always willing to help. We’ve also noticed that the people here don’t curse so freely like many Americans you’d find especially in a big city. We haven’t heard any cursing in public and we’ve been in the presence of many different types and classes of people.



After breakfast we booked the tour to go to Windsor Castle, Stonehedge and The Baths for tomorrow since I couldn’t get through the phone lines last night. So today we were contemplating going for a train ride to Paris, France. It really was too late in the morning for that thought since we found out it takes almost 3 hours by train one-way to go to Paris. So we went to Kensington Palace, where Princess Diana lived at one time and The Kings and Queens lived. Yes, Debbie (my cousin) we saw the wedding dress of Queen Victoria. We weren’t allowed to take pictures inside the palace since the light destroys the material of the dresses. We also saw some dresses of the late Princess Diana and toured the rest of the palace that had different galleries, drawing rooms, bedrooms ballrooms and overlooked the Kensington Gardens, which we walked through to get to the palace. We had the audio self walking tour, so by the time we were done, it was lunch time. After lunch we wanted to stop at the post office to mail home the few memorabilia items we purchased so we don’t have to lug around the extra weight in Ukraine.



We then made our way to do a tour of the Tower of London and to see the famous Tower Bridge. We jumped on the underground system since it was way across town and our feet and legs were still sore from yesterday’s walk-a-thon and this mornings walking tour. The Tower of London was a place where they held prisoners at times (some of them royal prisoners) and either tortured them or executed them in a tower call The Bloody Tower or outside in the courtyards. There was also a building in the Tower of London which housed the royal jewels, crowns, swords, and showed a video of when Queen Elizabeth II was inaugurated as queen. One of the royal swords that had a 500 karat diamond in it with all other kinds of jewels. It was an interesting day finding out more history on the royal family and touring the Tower of London, however, we're ready for bed now so that’s it for today. Tot Ta for now!