Dover

We spend 3 days in Dover. A lovely village to meet England's history in the war. At the Dover Castle one is dealing with a Castle that has been involved in many of England's wars. The most exciting is a visit through the underground tunnels they used in WW2 for a hospital and operations

Yes, of course a walk up the cliffs.  It was lovely. I got stung by a bumblebee!

Friends

One of the best gifts of visiting London was to catch up with very special people.  Dave, Michelle and little Iona in Windsor.  Dave and I (Tracey) have been friends for years. 

In London we caught up with Marco and his lovely new wife, Jessica and Dominique their new baby.  Marco was telling Rod stories of my Dad.  Here in this picture, Sade was with us, as we were playing soccar in Greenwich park.

Sade

 My cousin's daughter, Sade has just left school and was in London.  So I was so excited to meet up with her, catch up on news in her life and world.  She stayed at our backpacker with us, as we had visited around the London hot-spots.  The last I saw her was when she was about 15 - and now she has grown in this lovely young woman, braving gap year in London.  We managed to get her a job at the backpacker where we stayed in Greenwich.

By the way, this poor policeman infront of Buckingham was telling us that just that morning he was heading to about 100 pictures taken of him.  Unbelievable!





Sha (as we call her) took this shot!  Rod was being mischevious!  Rod and Sha got on so nicely.  Sha really liked him.  Don't know why!!  :)

London Pub crawl

Of course, we had to do the classic pub crawl on one of London's famous walks. We went through the Southall where we heard stories of the area, visiting famous pubs along the way.  We ended the evening at this pub, where they were playing Trivial Pursuit and our group joined in at this table.  This dog was just the cutest, belonging to a local.  What I love about Europe is how people's dogs still go everywhere with them, including to their local pub.

On our way back from our crawl, one of my favourite views, of Tower Bridge.  I used to walk across this bridge everyday to work, so I have a big soft spot for it.

Sight seeing

 Rod and I had a great time in London, doing the touristy sight-seeing.  We visited London Tower - hearing how this was used as a storage place for armour and defense.  It was then used later to house prisoners receiving torture and execution - Guy Fawkes being one of them.  So we saw loads of different armourage, stories of kings and queens.

We did the clasic bus tour around London.  My (Tracey) favourite was the visit to the Imperial War museum.  Such interesting stories of past wars.  There were displays of different fighter aeroplanes on the ceiling and armour trucks on the floor - which Rod just loved.

To London we go

You've just got to love London. With the aura of just being an amazing big city, underground, arts, old buildings, history, River Thames, brigdes, towers and dungeons. Such a city of life and history.