Last week we spent a day on the beautiful Connaught, a 101 year old passenger ferry, run by the Colliers. What a beautiful way to see London, and to see a very different side of London. We started at Westminster and you see the usual side of London - beautiful bridges, old and new buildings (including the (very) inconspicuous MI6) - and then as you head up it becomes more and more green, with islands with trees and heron nests, flowers everywhere and mud banks to the river. It is beautiful!
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| barges and houseboats |
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| beautiful bridges |
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| sunshine! YES PLEASE!!! |
Thanks so much Louise and Arthur for organising it for us - we loved it.
Back at Westminster we decided to walk up Victoria Embankment to see some of the sights. Very pretty despite the looming grey clouds. When the thunder started, Geoff made a dash for a phone booth to call for sunshine...
....unfortunately no luck.... so we walked for the next hour in a HUGE thunderstorm - lightening, thunder, hail, the works!
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| The Thames and the Shard in a thunderstorm |
Yay! Cool that you kept the photo from our agtertafelberg hike. That was a memorable trip! Hope you are not as heavily laden as that this time!
ReplyDeleteLucy! So lovely to read your updates on the blog and glad you are having a lovely time exploring. I don't envy you in the cold though ;) Heading down to CT in 2nd week of May, going to miss our tea sessions but will check in on your felines for you! Enjoy! xx
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