Wednesday

My sleep patterns are really screwed up. Today I woke at 5am. Eventually went to breakfast and headed out shortly after 9.

I had till 12 on my 24 hour bus ticket so caught the link to Fleet St, walked along the Strand to the Embakment where I got on one heading South.

This covered much of the same path as yesterday but the sun was shining in the opposite diretcion so I could get shots of Westminster without the backlighting problems.

We also travelled past the other side of it and then the Abbey and New Scotland yard. Yesterday, because of congestion, the bus missed these.

Once past Marble arch it was new territory and eventually we were heading past Harrods to Kensington.

I visited both the Museum of Natural History and the V&A but only saw a small part of each. You could spend a whole day on these.

In the MNH, I saw the mammals and dinosaurs and in the V&A just the exhibits on the ground floor.

From there I walked back past Harrods (through it actually) and caught a tube to Oxford Street where I bought a pair of stretchy pants to wear on the trip home. I then went to Charing Cross Road where I eventually had a late lunch at a Mexican place. I had been to a store in the same franchise in the Woodlands. I think you got less and it cost more in London. After browsing a couple of book stores I headed back to the hotel. I have been out a couple of times in the local area and  am thinking of going to a free comedy club.






However, I have picked up a cold in the last day or so and I'm not 100%, with a sore throat and runny nose.