Guards, Towers and ABBA

Another day packed full in London. We were up fairly early (after our standard two cups of tea) and headed out to Windsor. Jo had never been before and we were greeted by a beautiful sunny day and Eton boys in their tails walking around this picture postcard village. We walked over the bridge to Windsor and past the castle. It was then that I noticed that that changing of the guards would be happening in about 15 minutes so we headed up to the castle to have a sneaky peak.

It wasn't too busy for a Tuesday morning (now the kids have gone back to school) so we took a seat right at the top of the hill (after Jo ascertively asked this Chinese lady to kindly take her huge bag off the seat and practically let another 10 people sit down!). Heheheh. Before we heard the guard band coming we were saw a symptom of life in England now around any of these types of sites - police, undercover 'MI5' type men with ear pieces and men with sniffer dogs eagerly running around looking in bins and under manhole covers. The guards came marching around the bend and Jo got some great pictures (which I wish I could share with you now but I can't). I had my two minutes of 'oh it's great to be English' before reality set in again :)

After walking around Windsor we headed to a pub for lunch and sat in the sunshine eating possibly the worlds largest sandwich!! After that we drove home via where I grew up, namely Tylers Green, Penn and Beaconsfield. It was literally a trip down memory lane and I took a few snaps of my old schools and houses etc.

It was a quick turn around as we got home, changed and were out again this time headed for Tower Hill in London. Maria had got us tickets for the Tower Bridge exhibition where you can go up the tower and see how the bridge opens for ships passing down the Thames. The weather was great as we could see for miles and the bridge is stunning. In a similar stroke of good luck that we had with the guards at Windsor earlier in the day as we were leaving the engine room a guide said "Did you know that the bridge is due to raise in 5 mintues?". Now this doesn't happen every day so we headed outside and got a few pictures of the bridge opening and it all felt meant to be.

We hopped back on the tube for Piccadily Circus as we had tickets to watch Mamma Mia at the Prince of Wales theatre. We had an absolute ball watching this show where your feet do not stop tapping and you feel like bursting into song with the actors!

After this jam packed day we all nearly fell asleep on the tube on the way home but once in bed I couldn't believe that Windsor was this morning, it felt like last week. Another excellent day in London for us with Dad and Mia.