Wednesday, August 10, 2016

8/10/2016 Stonehenge, then London

Lovely breakfast at Leena's Guest house.  I don't know who Leena is - neither Gary nor his wife is named that.  This is the "princess portion" of the queens breakfast.


Off to Stonehenge.  Achievements like this always impress me. It is truly amazing what ancient humans have been able to accomplish.


Might as well take a selfie like everyone else.


After the henge we walked back to the visitor center.  (Took a bus going there) We ate in the cafe and did a little shopping, and looked through the Neolithic village.  Since no one knows exactly how the roofs were made each house had a different style.


After a last visit to the loo, we headed off to London.  England has highways so we made good time until we hit rush hour.  Our apartment is next to the Tower at St. Katherine's Docks, so we are right at the heart of things.  As we fought our way across town the navigation system had a nervous breakdown. It thought there was a roundabout where one had been taken away.  Luckily Google had a correct route.  I thought I was going to have to hire a taxi to lead us there.  We made it!  



Had a little trouble finding the actual apartment, but we are here and it is great.  3 bedrooms upstairs, one with bunk beds, a full bath up and powder-room down, and a fully equipped kitchen.


Alec took a quick shower.  He and I took the car back, and then he took off to have drinks and dinner with a roommate from Yale.  (They had a great time catching up.) I took a taxi back and went with Jef and the kids to have dinner with friends from the kids' school at a Turkish restaurant at the docks.

Everyone had a fine time.  We totally unpacked so we could see what we had and we will need to rearrange things to get everything in.




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