Today we had to pack up and leave our apartment. Trish and Grant have have also left London for Cambridge. Reb arrived in the morning and we headed off via Regents Park to Parliament Square, taking in the sites of Big Ben, which always impresses me. We headed over Lambeth Bridge and bought tickets to the London Dungeon. This has changed since we last visited it. It is now a tour lasting 11/4 hrs. As a group you 'walk' through the streets of London during the reign of King Henry VIII on your way to the Tower of London to be beheaded. At some point in the tour you are seeing what it was like during the Plague, with smells, and noises of flies buzzing overhead. It goes on to describe the events associated with Jack and Ripper (all actors playing to their theme very well). It was quite well done and finished with you sitting in the dark in a chair that dropped several feet as if you were on the end of the hangman's noose at Newgate Prison.
We returned to the apartment to pick up our luggage and caught a cab to St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. It is attached to the St Pancras train station, and is an absolutely beautiful building. We are staying here with Lisa and Kev. Reb decided to make use of our bath (she said she hadn't had one since she left NZ 8 months ago) before she left us, and we joined Lisa and Kev in a pub around the corner to watch the Men's Wimbeldon final between Federer and Djokovic. While neither of us are great tennis enthusiatists we both thoroughly enjoyed the game, probably because it was so close. Unfortunately our support for Federer didn't assist him to win! We finished the day with a lovely Sunday pub roast dinner.
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