Hello everyone, Back in April my family came over for a visit. In the 1.5 years we have been in London they’re the only family members to visit except for Cassidy. Because it was a holiday of a life time I tried to plan that they experience and do as much as possible. My dad and Dolores and younger sister Sabine came for a visit. Ms Dolores was like the energizer bunny. She was up for doing and seeing everything. Her favorite phrase was “you can rest when you get home”. As you all know by now we don’t have a car here in the UK so we walk everywhere or take public transport (Tube, Train, or Buses). So I think I wore them out.
The only thing I had no control over was the weather. The weather was mostly cloudy and periods of rain. A few days of sun shine. It was still a shock because they live in Augusta Georgia.
Knowing that this was a trip of a life time, I was able to book a week-end in Paris, France traveling on the Eurostar. The train travels from London to Paris in 3 hrs under the English Channel. Spring time in Paris it was not. It rained the whole time except the very last day of our visit. We saw almost everything in Paris from a bus. This was a good thing because of the rain. The mornings we were on the bus and the afternoon we were free to do what we wanted. We saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, saw the Effel Towel and was able to attend a church service at the Notre Dame Cathedral, and Sacre-Coeur, drove around the Arcde Triomphe and toured Chateur de Versailles. We also did a Seine River cruise.
In London we did all the must do or see as a tourist. Hop on and off tour of London, river cruise up to Greenwich, tour tower of London (seeing the crown jewels),walking across the Tower Bridge. Hearing Big Ben Chime, Walk through Harrods (famous London store) walked in Hyde and James and Green Park. Walked down to Piccadilly Circus and the shopping street of Oxford Street and due to the weather we were unable to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace. Toured Windsor castle spent a day at Kew Gardens which is walking distant from the house.
Wanting to get out of town I arranged a bus tour trip to see Stonehenge, the Roman Baths in Bath and see Salisbury cathedral in Salisbury and the English country-side.
In the time that my family was here we were able to ride most modes form of transport, Ferries, Trains, buses and the underground tube system.
It was great having the time with my family here in London. Usually we only see each other on a week-end visit when I go home to the states.
We are attaching a link to our picture album because we all had cameras and my family like to take pictures. I get it honestly.
There's lots of pictures, and many are redundant as we had 4 cameras going most of the time. Rather than put it in a slideshow, I'll just link to the photo album
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