Jun 28 - the grave "yard"

The first thing on our agenda was Westminster Abby.  There are an amazing number of people buried there, kings, queens, noblemen and women, church leaders to organists and the unknown soldier.  Churchill didn't want to be buried there because he didn't want people walking on his grave.  There's a "thank you" to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Literally thousands; I'm sure that there's a catalog somewhere.

Before that, of course, we had breakfast at our B&B.  Mine was so-so; Sandy's the same.  Jim's looked ok.  I forget what Sheryl had. We took our time leaving, not getting out to the street until 10am.  There's a London Underground stop quite close, London Olympia, but it only runs on the weekends and on special occasions.  That's on the District Line.  However, the London Overground does run during the week so we took that to Brompton West (one stop), and changed trains.  We'd bought an unlimited day ticket and we put it to good use.

We left the Abby around 1pm and headed to Piccadilly Circus, found a spot for lunch and checked out the hop-on-hop-off situation.  I'm still not sure what we're doing on that account, but it was too late to do anything that day.  We took the train one stop to Green Park and walked to Buckingham Palace, stared at that for some time, took some pictures, walked into Hyde Park to the Serpentine, had a snack (coffee for me; nothing for Sandy, ice cream for Jim and Sheryl).

We were getting tired, or at least I was.  We made our way to Herrods and stared at the expensive stuff, walked through the food court, more expensive stuff -- 37 GBP for a small container of, obviously special, honey ?  I'll bet that money doesn't go to the bees !!

Back to the tube, Knightsbridge at Herrods, a couple of stops to Earls Court then dinner at an Italian restaurant.  From there we walked back to our accommodation.  Google Maps is proving to be quite useful to navigate when walking.  Jim did the same with the Apple App.

Today, don't know.  We got an email from Eurostar that some union is planning an "action" when we are traveling.  We might adjust our plans for travel to Belgium.  I/we might head up to St. Pancras train station and check that out.

Onward ...