Whirlwind Tour of London

Though it took me a few weeks to find time to post this story, some of you will surely identify with it. Ever been somewhere worth visiting but had very little time to see it? Did you pick a few things and really explore them or try to see it all in a short time?

My mom and I went to London to visit my sister who is living there for a few years and to see London. My mom had not been outside North America previously. We didn't anticipate how much of London she'd see on her first big trip. In what amounted to a 4 day weekend, we saw Buckingham Palace's changing of the horse guard and changing of the guard, we rode the London Eye, we took a boat to Greenwich and toured the observatory and park, we took the tube to Kew Gardens and saw most of the grounds and glass houses, we saw Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and the House of Parliment, we wandered around Nob Hill and walked over to Hyde Park and Kensington Palace, strolled through the park and gardens and had a lot of great meals. I arrived a day later than my mom so she also had high tea and rode the Big Bus double decker bus tour before I showed up. Whew! Since we rode the tube and walked almost everywhere, it was a good workout as well as a ton of seeing London at a walking pace (though we walk at a pretty fast pace).

It wasn't a normal weekend in London. Besides the pace and variety, it was hot and sunny the whole time and I got sunburned. That doesn't happen in London very often.

Plenty of pictures in the Gallery