Day 17

Being the fairly relaxed tourists that we are, today was quite a busy day for us, up quite early and out of the house by 930! We did a bus tour round London today. This is a double decker thing that does a tour of the sights, you get a commentary too which is quite useful. Saw all the big ones Piccadilly Circus, Buck Palace, Westmintser Abbey, Parliament and the big clock, Tower Bridge etc. Though today we did tick off one of the few things I wanted to see in London, the London Eye. It's the massive ferris wheel built in 2000. It takes 30 minutes to do one revolution and is 135 metres high at the top, damn good view of the city too, get a better idea of where stuff is rather than just via a tube map or the A-Z map book. Getting real security conscious at these tourist places too, paranoid is some cases, as the day before some whanau had been kicked off the eye cos one of them spoke Arabic in the queue! We also took a leisurely boat trip down the Thames too, so for our busy sightseeing day we spent lots of time on our arses, just the way I like it! Ruth did a touch of shopping down Kilburn High Road before we went home (Ruth' s shoe status: 5 pairs) then I went over to Ealing to catch up with Justin over a pub feed, few pints and a Liverpol draw, rolled home on the tube late.