Our Second Day in London

Our second day in London, UK, our first full day. We started the day with a buffet breakfast at our hotel. Glad we did as the hotel provided quite a spread of hot and cold breakfast items for its guests.

We enjoyed a full English breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausages, hash brown, ham, beans, with 3 different kinds of crossaints, fruit and veggie salad, yoyourt with dry fruits, pancakes and toasts etc; it was very good.

After breakfast, we walked from our hotel to the tower bridge, a 20 minute walk. Since it was my first time being in UK, we took our time taking in everything we saw during our walk to the bridge and made numerous stops on the way poking into various stores and shops.

We were in London in February and it was a cold wintry day. I was glad that we were wearing our Canadian winter jackets with hoods and scarves which protected us from the chilly wind and kept us warm. By the time we arrived to the London Tower, it was well after 2pm. Since the London tower closed at 5pm, it wasn’t worth paying for the admission to enter. So we decided to come back the next day.

We explored the vicinity in the area, discovered and visited the All Hallows by the Tower, the oldest church in the city of Londonn, and the Crypt Museum.

The thing that impressed us the most was a small Penn Memorial plaque where the church's attached a note acknowledging its imvolvement with slavery. People and insitutions do make mistakes from time to time. It takes a lot of courage to admit one's wrongdoing rather than covering it up. We applaud the church's action.

We took a coffee break at the Wetherspoon restaurant where I saw an interesting poster in the women's washroom offering support to ladies on a date not working out well in their bar. Glad to see support and a way out offered to women in public places! Time flew by and we enjoyed a dinner at an Indian restaurant close by our hotel and retired to a nice evening at our hotel ready for the next day! RT London Tower Area London. UK 022025