London Lark - Day Two

First views of Buckingham Palace

 After breakfast at our hostel we caught the metro to Green Park and walked to the beautiful Buckingham Palace. We waited around for a while but unfortunately the changing of the guards was not on however the London marathon was. There were thousands of spectators and 36,000 participants which made for a very busy, action packed day.

London Marathon

Buckingham Palace

We walked through St. James Park, picking up the most delicious soft serve ice cream on the way and made our way to the London Eye. In the park I was rather delighted to see several squirrels running around, but was unceremoniously shushed by a peeved man who didn’t like me getting so excited about them. He was feeding them nuts and wasn’t too impressed by my high pitched squeals. I paid him very little mind however and continued to delight in the little squirrels running about and being cute.

St James Park with views of the London Eye

Very cute little squirrel

Delicious!

 It took quite a while and a lot of detours to get around with the marathon on, but there was a lot of excitement in the air and lots of people in costumes, with balloons and with high spirits so it made for a fun day. The London Eye was quite fun and we got great views of the city. I was excited to see Wembley Stadium in the distance and took an unnecessary number of photos of Big Ben and the beautiful Houses of Parliament. We also visited Westminster Abbey which was just lovely.

That afternoon we also went to a fantastic tea parlour where I had some English Breakfast tea (IN A POT) and an apple raspberry tart which was heavenly.  It was an incredibly beautiful café with lovely china and the tastiest (and probably most expensive!) cakes in the world. Such a lovely respite from the cold weather and definitely made our London experience even more special!

Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and the marathon

Beautiful Westminster

Westminster Abbey (with Big Ben poking his head in the corner!)

 

That night we went to a cute little Irish pub called O’Neills were I had LAMB SHANKS with beans, carrots, mash and minted gravy, accompanied by Kopparberg Mixed Fruits cider and followed by crème brulee! DELICIOUS! I don’t think I have ever been so thrilled with a meal in my life! (Yes, get used to the posts about food!)

Much love xoxox