On our way to the Da Vinci Exhibition at the Queen's Galleries we happened upon the changing of the guard as luck would have it! Again our surprise at the crowd at this occasion which happens most days a week. We got a bit of a view and then went on to our destination nearby. While waiting for our turn at the exhibition we found a nearby pub and had lunch-so wanting a ploughman's but not really getting what we hoped for!! My first half a lager tho for a while. ...

Very jetlagged we took the tube for the first time in 21 years into Central London. We were so excited (at least I was beside myself!) to be back London. We were quite overawed by the number of people out and about on Sunday afternoon in the city-it felt very touristy and there were few locals about! Preparations for the games were clearly very much underway in terms of the signs and maintenance around the city. If this day is anything to go by London during the...