Daytrips Out

[Squad 51]

Sounds cool. And even with some museums I visited when I was in London. Though I should have looked for Baker Street back then, yet Sherlock was not on my mind. lol

[Tim]

Oct 29, 2021 12:59:29 GMT -5 Melinda Halliwell said:

I took a trip up London and done a bus tour around the capital but not on an open top decked one but ordinary buses on a select route swapping and changing using my Oyster which was cheaper than the first obviously.

The journey started in Piccadilly Circus and went via Kensington Palace, Cromwell Road where the History, Science, and V&A Museums are before heading to Baker Street and Trafalgar Square lastly finishing at the Tower Of London then. 

It was intended to journey onto Waterloo then back into Piccadilly to do a West End audio theater tour I'd downloaded narrated by Sir Ian McKellen but due to traffic didn't have the time and so took a boat back to Greenwich from Tower Pier instead before heading home subsequently. 

Of course the latter can be done some time otherwise.

I suppose I should've anticipated London traffic before going out and actually thought things through prior to doing them like my friend texted so I guess I won't be doing that anytime soon again although it did get me out of the house for a day at least.

Sounds like you had a great time.

[Dark Avenger]

Oct 29, 2021 12:59:29 GMT -5 Melinda Halliwell said:

I took a trip up London and done a bus tour around the capital but not on an open top decked one but ordinary buses on a select route swapping and changing using my Oyster which was cheaper than the first obviously.

The journey started in Piccadilly Circus and went via Kensington Palace, Cromwell Road where the History, Science, and V&A Museums are before heading to Baker Street and Trafalgar Square lastly finishing at the Tower Of London then. 

It was intended to journey onto Waterloo then back into Piccadilly to do a West End audio theater tour I'd downloaded narrated by Sir Ian McKellen but due to traffic didn't have the time and so took a boat back to Greenwich from Tower Pier instead before heading home subsequently. 

Of course the latter can be done some time otherwise.

I suppose I should've anticipated London traffic before going out and actually thought things through prior to doing them like my friend texted so I guess I won't be doing that anytime soon again although it did get me out of the house for a day at least.

Sounds like a wonderful trip. I really enjoyed looking at this.

Now that we're out of lockdowns and things are getting back to normal, I'm excited for my own day trips.

Bus tours are really quite fun, I enjoy them, with tours. 

Sounds like you got lots of sightseeing's done. 

[Melinda Halliwell]

As I said I didn't see everywhere I wanted though I'd been to those places previously hopefully, I'll be able to do the theater tour with Ian McKellen next whenever I can unless I go elsewhere prior like I will be in December when I visit Winchester for the Christmas market which I'm excited doing having never visited before and viewing the famous Cathedral amongst other things of course. 

[Pia]

Sounds like fun. Those famous Cathedrals and Christmas markets will be a treat. Let us know what they are like.

[Melinda Halliwell]

I will do Pia. Mum and I usually go to a Christmas market in Bury St Edmund's Essex which was cancelled again this year due to COVID and staffing so we're doing Winchester instead.

It will be interesting seeing the former capital of Great Britain before London officially became that then.

[Tim]

I thought London was always the capital.

[Melinda Halliwell]

Here's info on Winchester and what it says about that being the former capital of Great Britain then.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester#:~:text=Winchester%20was%20the%20first%20and%20former%20capital%20city

[Tim]

Thanks for the link.

No relation to Dean and Sam

[Melinda Halliwell]

Today was mum and mine's annual London Christmas lights trip with Hyde Winter Wonderland thrown in which we first visited.

You had to book this time and pay due to COVID when before it was free to regulate how many people were going in.

Both of us stayed two hours and left because it was cold naturally and London got the brunt of storm Arwen brewing our way but not as bad as up north then. 

We bussed it to Baker Street and ate in a pub we've frequented before there then got the train to Bond Street and viewed the Xmas lights there and Selfridges interior windows which had displays in them before travelling down Regent and Carnaby Street browsing their lights there.

I always like Carnaby's lights better than Regent and Oxford Streets lights because there more colourful. 

Our evening ended looking around Leicester and Trafalgar Square's mini markets before taking the bus back to our train station where we ventured home again. 

I hope to visit the Southbank and Covent Garden Christmas markets when we can do before the 2nd January. 

[Tim]

We bussed it to Baker Street

Did you see Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Watson

[Melinda Halliwell]

Nope, but there is a statue of the detective outside a mock 221b Baker Street door that houses a Sherlock Holmes museum. We've not been in it yet, unfortunately.

[Tim]

Be cool to visit it.

[Melinda Halliwell]

Here's the website for the museum if you wanted to browse it.

www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/

[Tim]

I will.

Thanks for the link.