Day 4 - Tower of London, Afternoon Tea and Hyde Park Woke up at 9am - oops! We miscommunicated on the alarm time - were hoping to get up earlier to get a head start on the day. Lots to do!! In the UK all the big stores are closed on Easter Sunday so we set aside today for the Tower of London, Hyde Park and Afternoon Tea. Because of engineering works going on, our Nothern Line trains don't stop at Kings Cross, so we are having to transfer a often and plan our tr...

Catching up - ran out of time last night and we wanted to get up early this morning so will write tonight about both Day 3 - High End Shopping, Three Days of Rain & Day 4 - Tower of London, Afternoon Tea and Hyde Park. Can't promise to write every evening, but do want to keep a record for ourselves also before we forget everything!! ---------------------------------- Day 3 Started the day off later than expected - the night before it was all of a sudden p...

Kate: Writing at the end of Day 2. It's late and we should probably get to sleep, so will make this quick. Slept like babies almost all the way through the night!! Asleep at 9:30, up at 7:30, amazing! The bed is super comfy and we were well rested. Then off on the tube to see Big Ben, Parliment Buildings and Westminster Abbey - although we didn't go in. Day started out gorgeous but quickly turned to light rain and we were too far to go back to the hotel to chan...

Hello!! Blogging from our great room at the Hoxton Hotel in the Shoreditch area of London. It's been a very, very, did I say very?, long day. We left Vancouver on Wednesday evening and after 9 hrs landed in Amsterdam for our connection through to Heathrow. KLM was a great airline to fly with. Dinner was yummy, we had hot towlettes, private tv screens and our own choice of top movies and tv. There was a screw up with our seats - I had booked mid plane, aisle and...