Monthly Archives: June 2019

Day 21 9 June 2019 Belgravia, Knightsbridge and some Tennis.

Posted on 10/06/2019 by Greg

Simple plans for the day, have a look around Knightsbridge/Belgravia, French Open Men’s Final and get ready for tomorrow, the start of our road trip of Britain. Lucky for us, I decided we needed an early start, so I got … Continue reading →

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Day 20 8th June 2019 The Trooping of the Colour, London

Posted on 09/06/2019 by Greg

We left home around 9:30am and headed to Pall Mall for the Queen’s Birthday Trooping of the Colour parade. We arrived a bit before 10am and it was 4 or 5 deep on the Green Park side of the Mall … Continue reading →

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Day 19 7 June Mayfair London

Posted on 08/06/2019 by Greg

The weather forecast for today was rain, lots of it. So we decided to take a rest day, and besides, Ash Barty (the Australian tennis player) was in the French Open semi-finals. So it was a very easy, lazy day, … Continue reading →

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Day 18  6th June 2019 London Silver Vaults, British Museum, Covent Garden Markets and more     Part 2 of todays adventures

Posted on 07/06/2019 by Greg

Today was too big for our site to gandle in one posting. The rest of our day follows. ??? Just over the road we came to The London Silver Vaults. The vaults were originally opened in 1876 as an area … Continue reading →

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Day 18 6th June 2019 Soane’s Museum and Lincoln Inn Part 1 of todays adventures

Posted on 07/06/2019 by Greg

We had a bit bigger day today! We left home around 9:30am and caught the No.6 bus expecting to get off at Drury Lane, but no, this No. 6 terminated at Piccadilly Circus! Go figure huh! So we got off … Continue reading →

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Day 17 5th June 2019 The Shard

Posted on 06/06/2019 by Greg

We had a very slow quiet day, time to catch up. We took a bus and the tube to the south side of London Tower Bridge. We had organised a lunch with our neighbour Helen from our apartment building in … Continue reading →

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Day 16 4th June 2019, National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, a demonstration and Everyone’s talking about Jamie at the Apollo theatre.

Posted on 05/06/2019 by Deborah

We left the flat after 9.30am this morning, we walked to the National Portrait museum.   On the way we stuck our head into Brown’s hotel, we were going to go to Fortnum & Mason but it was closed due to a … Continue reading →

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Day 15 3rd June 2019 Kew Gardens, aka, Greg’s Garden Diary

Posted on 04/06/2019 by Greg

This all started when I asked Deb if she was doing the blog today, she had after all been taking notes all morning. No she said, I have just been recording flowers I have been taking pictures of (there were … Continue reading →

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Day 14, 2nd June 2019, Southbank and Evensong at Westminster Abbey.

Posted on 03/06/2019 by Deborah

Did a bit of cleaning of the flat this morning, looked better afterwards. There are a few plants here that I have enjoyed looking after, they look much happier after 2 weeks of a bit of love! FaceTimed some family … Continue reading →

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Day 13 1st June 2019 Abbey Rd, Lords Oval and Camden Market.

Posted on 02/06/2019 by Greg

This morning we were out early to tick the Abbey Rd crossing off our bucket lists. ✔ Done. In many ways this was an amusing start to the day. The crossing is on a regular street (ummm Abbey Rd, go … Continue reading →

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