The tour is hop on and hop off, so we stopped to see Buckingham Palace. What a big place and evidently none of the recent monarchs liked the place so nobody has lived there full time, including the current queen.
We then hopped back on the bus and continued the tour. The plan was to go to The London Eye to catch a special guided ride that we had booked that is only given at 3:30. When we started to get off the bus, the tour guide said to wait for the next stop as it was a shorter walk. So we stayed on the bus, only he didn't let us know that the bus was at the bus stop where we should get off. We thought we were at a stop light. Barbara asked him when we should get off, and he said, “Oh, you should have gotten off at that last stop.” It turned out that instead of having a shorter walk, we ended up on the wrong side of the Thames and had to make our way across a bridge, down to the water level and along the river to The Eye.
It was just short of a run – my fastest walking speed and Barbara was hard pressed to keep up. She did keep up and is proud of that fact. We barely made it, but we did make it and had a really good half hour guided ride. The view from the top is spectacular. Here is a picture of Big Ben and Parliament.
We hopped back onto the bus to get back to our starting place. On the walk back to the hotel we stopped and had a very tasty Lebanese dinner. At that point jet lag, and over 7 miles of walking (according to Barbara's pedometer) took its toll and we packed it in for the night.
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