Bloody American Tourists. Yep, that was us today. Fortunately, I don't think was particularly offended anyone, but we were the America Tourists today.
We left Downham Market on the train this morning, and found out once again the value of the round trip purchase. We were going to get a 
ticket to the train station in London and then deal with the return in 2 weeks, but it was just a bit more to get the return ticket and it will be good for a month! I love a good deal. We have a ticket for the trip to the Netherlands tonight that covered the train from London to Harwich, the boat over, a cabin, and the train to any station in the Netherlands. When I tell folks what it costs, everyone assumes that is per person, not for both of us. I love being able to shop on Internet before leaving.
ticket to the train station in London and then deal with the return in 2 weeks, but it was just a bit more to get the return ticket and it will be good for a month! I love a good deal. We have a ticket for the trip to the Netherlands tonight that covered the train from London to Harwich, the boat over, a cabin, and the train to any station in the Netherlands. When I tell folks what it costs, everyone assumes that is per person, not for both of us. I love being able to shop on Internet before leaving. When we got to London Liverpool Station, we checked our bags into a storage space. Handy, because did LOTS of walking today and the luggage would have been a pain. We went to information and asked about a city tour on a bus. We wanted to be able to hop on and off if we were near things we wanted to see. I had cheezy gift shopping on my mind and wanted to get lots of it done. We decided to have lunch and found a place called "A Bunch of Grapes" in the Leadenhall Market. I decided to go with a traditional English dish-spinach ravioli:-) I had a coke
served with lemon to drink and mom had a ham and cheese toastie with chips.
We wandered over to St. Paul's Cathedral to catch the tour bus. Three different bus tours start at that point and I felt like a piece of bloody bait walking into a shark tank. We were eventually 
snatched up by one of the sharks and found ourselves immediately on a double decker tour bus with an open top. It was such a beautiful day and the live tour guide was very friendly and funny...exactly what you want in an entertaining afternoon! We spent a lot of time stuck in traffic. There was a major dedication of a statue to the Royal Air Force from the Second WW. We actually just missed the queen mum and Charles and Camilla. We saw the dedication live on TV when we were eating lunch, but when we drove by with the tour, they had already gone back to Buckingham Palace.
snatched up by one of the sharks and found ourselves immediately on a double decker tour bus with an open top. It was such a beautiful day and the live tour guide was very friendly and funny...exactly what you want in an entertaining afternoon! We spent a lot of time stuck in traffic. There was a major dedication of a statue to the Royal Air Force from the Second WW. We actually just missed the queen mum and Charles and Camilla. We saw the dedication live on TV when we were eating lunch, but when we drove by with the tour, they had already gone back to Buckingham Palace.We continued riding to Picadilly Circus (no animals were injured in this event) where we got off and did some light shopping. Apparently, the Picadill was the ruff collar from Shakespeare's day and they were shopped for on Picadilly Road. We decided to go to TGIFriday's, like the good American Tourists. Standard chain food...OK, but not very exciting.
We decided to take the Underground back to the Liverpool Station. It had been hot all day, but the Tube was UNBEARABLE! They are really going to need to work on that before the influx from the Olympics. We were both SO happy that we had left our luggage at the station. We actually got back to the station just before the early train left for Harwich. We caught it just on time and had a very relaxing ride over. When we got to the boat we checked in and boarded the boat. We have a cute little cabin, like a train car. There are bunk beds and I think I will definitely be sleeping on top tonight.
Mom and I are now hanging out in the lobby. We can hear the engines starting and are enjoying
croquettes, drinking cassis (my favorite Europe drink), and chatting about life. We'll be heading to bed soon, sleeping on the boat, and waking up in the Netherlands.
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