On our walk, we had to walk through Trafalger Square where we saw some unusual crossing signs:
We then walked back to the hotel to pick up Alex who slept in this morning and went across the street to eat lunch in The Horse and Stables pub. We dropped Dave off for a nap and the rest of us went on the Princes, Palaces and Power audio tour. We walked over the Westminster Bridge where we had a great view of the Parliament Building. The green awnings cover the tea house of the House of Commons and the red ones cover the tea house for the House of Lords and never the twain shall meet. On the front of the building, there is a statue of Oliver Cromwell who was at one time buried in Westminster Abbey. At some point he was disinterred and his head was put on a pole and affixed to the roof of the Parliament building and stayed there for 42 years! (Yuck!)
We walked across a green to get to our next stop and I just had to take a picture of the funky architecture on the building in front of us (note the placement of the windows - I assume there is a really large staircase on the other side:
We then walked over to Westminster Abbey. Unfortunately, it was closed on Saturday afternoon, but we did learn that they have added a set of statues on martyrs over one of the doorways and one of them is Martin Luther King. We then walked past the Churchill War Rooms. The room was locked after WWII, but Margaret Thatcher opened it to the public in the 80's. Apparently everything is in place just as he left it. There was a huge long line outside to get in so we walked on. We walked through St. James park on the Princess Diana Memorial Walkway and stopped to take pictures of the geese, ducks and swans swimming in the lake.
Our last stop was Buckingham Palace and then we walked back to the hotel to cool our heels for an hour before dinner. Amy wears a step counter and we logged in almost 27,000 steps today. The weather was cloudy and windy and in the low 50's so not a bad day at all.
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