What a great day - very sociable. The kids are really soaking up the atmosphere and engaging with both Londoners and visitors from abroad. We started the day with me taking some photographs at Victoria Station again as I wanted to experiment a little more where I met another local keen photographer who provided me with some localities to photograph and chatted for some time about photography in general. Up next was a visit to Wellington's Tower and on the way we stopped where two Busbies (Queen's Guards) stood with bear hats and machine guns. I always thought they were never to react or speak but one, after we stood there for about 10 minutes asked very officially if we would like a photo with the children. He marched forward and I quickly snapped, thanked him but he didn't react just marched to return to his sentry box. Soon after a couple who saw this asked for a photo but he never responded so I guess we were really lucky.
We then grabbed a coffee at Hyde Park and spent an hour talking to a couple from Manchester comparing the state of our nations. We then went on a great 3.5 hour walking tour where we learnt so much about British history finishing at an old pub where we spent some time chatting with two Brazilian girls comparing countries. We walked with one of them to the main station.
There are that many people all rushing around that you feel invisible as they bump into you if you walk too slow. Drivers push in quite boldly but rarely are abused as I guess the pushees know what it is like to be a pusher.
We said goodbye to the Sisters who gave the kids an Easter egg each as we leave before breakfast tomorrow to catch a bus to Luton Airport for a flight to Inverness Scotland. The weather reports temperatures as low as -10 at night and our local friend Jane reports snow in Scotland.
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