London, Day 4

What another busy and fascinating day in London! We began our journey at the Imperial War Museum where we saw an emotional, but educational, exhibit on the Holocaust. The museum was well put together and had fascinating artifacts and information about airplanes, tanks, WWI, WWII, spies, nautical battles, and many other things. 


After the museum, we started walking towards Waterloo Bridge hoping to find an outdoor book market; along the way we stopped for lunch at a small Thai place. Unfortunately, the books weren’t out, but we did find some frozen yoghurt (and it was real frozen yoghurt, not the fat free ice cream version that we get in the states) that we ate on the bank of the Thames. The pigeons tried to attack me more than once, but I bravely fought them off. 

Once we had finished our refreshing dessert, we tried to find a Tube station, but had a hard time locating one, so we wandered around for a while. We visited a hat shop, a bookstore, had some tea, and witnessed a rent ceremony.  As part of this ancient tradition, we saw a man who was dressed up in “ye olde” clothes parade down the street with some important royal (or we assumed it was because he was driven around in a fancy car with a royal sign on the roof); accompanying the two was a marching band playing New Orleans music. The whole scene was rather bizarre and left the two of us wondering if we dreamed the experience. 


Since we were exhausted, we decided to call it a day at five thirty and return to the B&B to relax for the evening. I processed some photos, we watched some of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, and enjoyed resting our feet. Tomorrow will be our last day in London and we're planning to visit the Science Museum and Natural History Museum.