Good intentions to keep it a low key day…

 But it’s our last day to see all the things because who knows if we’ll ever be back. 

We took the Tube around again today. Easy, peasy. Not too many people were up this morning. It also turns out to be Good Friday, so we think people might have been having a bit of a lie in. 

First stop tower hill to see the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, and a piece of wall that the Roman’s had built around the city hundreds of years ago. 

Next, Dunstan in the East. A good old stone church turned into a garden, beautiful.

Then to Leadenhall market to look around. Not a lot was open but mostly it was still pretty early, cool building though. 

We tried to go up to the Sky Gardens but the attendant said it cost €11.50 to go up and that came with a hot beverage. The sign says free admission but you must purchase a ticket. That’s not free then.

We went in search of something that was on the maybe list, the stretcher railings. They were stretchers that had been used in WWII for the wounded. Then repurposed into railings, pretty neat. 

Then we found a little garden and sat down in the quiet for a little while.

On to the busiest part of our day, Borough market. So. Many. Cheeses! I wanted to try them all, a couple stalls had samples of them and they were so good! I also saw where you can wait in a really long line for viral chocolate covered strawberries, too much hype if you ask me but they were pretty. Hubby got a giant sourdough pretzel and I had a slice of bacon and cheese quiche. We sat on a curb outside the market and ate them like weirdo’s, they were wonderful. 

I think they’re trying to compensate for something.

Found a couple neat things in other passages and stopped at a pub for a drink to calm things down a bit. 

The next thing on our agenda was a tour we booked months ago for the Globe Theatre. We had made it for 2:30pm but found ourselves done with the things we had planned on seeing at 12:30pm. The desk attendant switched our time slot to 1pm no big deal, so kind. 

Then over the Millennium bridge to Saint Paul’s Cathedral. That place is huge and ornate. 

A walk to Black Friars Tube station and head back to our side of town. Although once we got there I decided I hadn’t seen all of Buckingham palace so we went and checked it out for a minute before ambling back to our hotel to put our feet up. 

Then a good pub dinner. 

Sad to say it has come to an end of touring around. It has been awesome.