Footprints in London - Buckingham Palace

London Day 2 (11 Nov '07)

Nineth Stop : Buckingham Palace

Day 2, we woke up bright and early and headed out to Buckingham Palace to witness the changing of the guards that happens (according to Blamer again) around 11.30 - 12.00 noon. We alighted at St James Station and walked over to Buckingham Palace.

Along the way, took some photos of their colonial style houses, and their red post box. By the way, the blue card that Blamer is holding is their equivalent of our EZ-Link Card, called Oyster Card, wonder why it's called Oyster though, hmm....

Buckingham Palace, quite a crowd had already gathered near the entrance of the palace, I reckon they are mostly tourist like us to be gathered here. Anywayz, while waiting for the changing of guards ceremony, it's photo-taking time again... ...

We waited and waited, but pass 12 noon there was still no guard changing. However the queen did drove past us (see if u can spot her in the car from the clip). Thinking that there might be no ceremony today, we headed out for some fun in the leaves at the nearby park.

Tenth Stop : St James's Park

At the park, we photo whore like crazy... ...

This leaves trail is something u wun get to see in S'pore

We tried to throw some leaves,

Me? One time.

Love-Hate Partner? Many times. Talk about unfair treatment...

However, I got a video wa ha ha ha

Lots of animals at the park as well, ducks, swans, squirrels and even a pelican!

More spectacular views of the park,
We managed to catch London Eye in the background in these,
Great view of a castle like structure behind, which we later got to know that a memorial service was being held there to pay respect to war veterans.
Half way through the park, we suddenly hear military drums sounding off. As we hurried to the driveway, still managed to catch a glimpse of the parade in front of the Musuem of the Guards.

However highlight of the Buckingham Palace trip was taking a pic with this handsome policeman.


Eleventh Stop : Westminister Abbey

We proceed to the next destination, Westminister Abbey. This is suppose to be a place of worship as well as a clock tower. It seems to me a lot of historical buildings of London consist of clock towers though... A nation obsessed with time?

Notice that my pic is a bit blur... Tells u a lot abt the photographer eh?

More pics at Westminister :

Twelveth Stop : House of Parliament
Next stop is House of Parliament, which happens to be just beside Ah Ben, more photo-taking!!!

Thirteenth Stop : Charlotte's Guest House

After a quick lunch of Subway Sandwiches, we have to say goodbye to the comfort of Crown Prince Hotel and travel out of London Zone 1 to the more shabby Zone 2 area to check into our official den -- Charlotte's Guest House.



Our unit :

More pics of the interior. As it is approaching winter, temp is ard 9-16 degrees, I was happy to see tat we had a fireplace, but it turns out tat it's a fake.
Time to hit the covers... chao~~