Today we had big plans. Church in the morning, Buckingham Palace in the afternoon, and the Jack the Ripper walking tour this evening. As I'm sure you all know by know, nothing goes according to plan.
We didn't make it out of bed in time for church, due to a combination of issues with alarm clocks and issues with biological clocks not being yet adapted to GMT. 11am rolled around before we rolled out of bed. Not a very exciting start to the day.
As proper citizens of the Commonwealth, we were still eager to head to Buckingham Palace to pay our respects to the Queen. The weather in London did not cooperate, which I suppose is rather normal. No sense snapping pictures and frolicking through gardens in the rain. We'll save it for another day.
The Science Museum was our alternate destination. 5 floors packed with stuff about space, medicine, steam engines, computers, and who knows what else. Unfortunately, there are only so many little placards and pictures that you can look at before getting a bit bored, so we only lasted a couple of hours there.
Returning to our tiny flat, and our tiny kitchen, I began the big adventure of making supper. Making a gourmet meal is quite difficult when stove, counter, and sink are all contained in a 2 foot wide space. I must confess that the hamburger-like meat, rice and veggies was edible, but not very tasty.
So, we didn't do too great at being tourists today, but we'll try again tomorrow.
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