After leaving the motel in King Langley,we headed towards Lee Valley Camping grounds. We chose this area as it was close to public transport for the ease of getting into London. We stayed at the caravan park for 3 nights & departing Friday morning. We arrived at the camp site during the 'high season', we were very lucky to get a site. After setting up camp
We set off for our first journey into London. Cars, bikes & people galore! We walked for miles & miles. An all day pass ticket for use on the bus or trains was 8 pound each. After walking 5 kms to the train station we took the East Anglier line train to Seven Sisters underground station, then we took a London tube train from Seven Sisters to the Victoria Line to Oxford Circus station. We walked all about Trafalgar Square, up to Buckingham Palace then onto The Rising Sun Hotel for our dinner. We both had sore feet & legs by the end of that day.
The next day we were off again catching the train back to London (earlier in the day), checking out other sites of London. The London Museum where we saw many Egyptian artifacts among a whole swag of other interesting pieces. We took a few hops on the tube to get to the Tower of London & the London Bridge. We had to take another journey on the tube to get us up to Westminster Station, we were getting quite good at this! We decided we wanted to spend more time at the World War 11 Cabinet Museum, which was very interesting. Unfortunately, two hours was not long enough...we had to skip a few sections of the Churchill Museum. Later we ended up at an American Pizza place (not sure why we did this, as Steve is the Master at cooking pizzas!) Although we did enjoy sharing the 'Double Sundae'.
Next day was spent doing a few household chores. After that we rode up to Waltham Abbey. It was another old church with interesting background information. This church had been upgraded quite a few times over the years. Upto this stage we had great weather for camping. But this was rapidly changing as we were cooking our chicken & corn soup (dinner). Due to the poor weather we had an early night & studied the Lonely Planets book of interesting places to see on the next phase of the journey to the North. To wake to more rain in the morning, we packed up as soon as possible & headed for Bletchley Park, where specialist decoders worked on deciphering German codes.
[no photos as we had no access to power on the camp site, so no batter re-charge. Plus Stephen managed to leave the good Panasonic Lunix camera's battery charger in Germany!]
This too was very interesting. It was great to see such old relics. Not only the 'cyphering machines' but a hut filled with old toys (Deb like this hut). Many collections whether it be toys or war medals were donated to the Park. After spending many hours here we moved onto Warwick where we found accommodation at the Leycester pub. Before dinner we had a walk around the old village. It too was very interesting, old cobbled streets & large church arches at each end of the town.
The internet was not good in the room. So I have had to sit in the lounge and try to finish off this Blog. So no more photos at this time.
Today we'll be heading north some more up toward York.
Cheers,
Stephen And Deb.
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| yes the sun was out, Lee Valley camp site. |
We set off for our first journey into London. Cars, bikes & people galore! We walked for miles & miles. An all day pass ticket for use on the bus or trains was 8 pound each. After walking 5 kms to the train station we took the East Anglier line train to Seven Sisters underground station, then we took a London tube train from Seven Sisters to the Victoria Line to Oxford Circus station. We walked all about Trafalgar Square, up to Buckingham Palace then onto The Rising Sun Hotel for our dinner. We both had sore feet & legs by the end of that day.
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The next day we were off again catching the train back to London (earlier in the day), checking out other sites of London. The London Museum where we saw many Egyptian artifacts among a whole swag of other interesting pieces. We took a few hops on the tube to get to the Tower of London & the London Bridge. We had to take another journey on the tube to get us up to Westminster Station, we were getting quite good at this! We decided we wanted to spend more time at the World War 11 Cabinet Museum, which was very interesting. Unfortunately, two hours was not long enough...we had to skip a few sections of the Churchill Museum. Later we ended up at an American Pizza place (not sure why we did this, as Steve is the Master at cooking pizzas!) Although we did enjoy sharing the 'Double Sundae'.
Next day was spent doing a few household chores. After that we rode up to Waltham Abbey. It was another old church with interesting background information. This church had been upgraded quite a few times over the years. Upto this stage we had great weather for camping. But this was rapidly changing as we were cooking our chicken & corn soup (dinner). Due to the poor weather we had an early night & studied the Lonely Planets book of interesting places to see on the next phase of the journey to the North. To wake to more rain in the morning, we packed up as soon as possible & headed for Bletchley Park, where specialist decoders worked on deciphering German codes.
[no photos as we had no access to power on the camp site, so no batter re-charge. Plus Stephen managed to leave the good Panasonic Lunix camera's battery charger in Germany!]
This too was very interesting. It was great to see such old relics. Not only the 'cyphering machines' but a hut filled with old toys (Deb like this hut). Many collections whether it be toys or war medals were donated to the Park. After spending many hours here we moved onto Warwick where we found accommodation at the Leycester pub. Before dinner we had a walk around the old village. It too was very interesting, old cobbled streets & large church arches at each end of the town.
The internet was not good in the room. So I have had to sit in the lounge and try to finish off this Blog. So no more photos at this time.
Today we'll be heading north some more up toward York.
Cheers,
Stephen And Deb.
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