Kilometres walked : Monday – 22

Tuesday morning, 7th March, 2023.

After trekking 22kms yesterday, today will be a slow and steady day celebrating Jason’s birthday. With jet lag getting us up at the ridiculous time of 3.30am yesterday we braved the early morning cold and headed off to Buckingham Palace. Even though we were heavily rugged up, it was bone chilling cold🥶 and it wasn’t until about 9am that we started to finally thaw out.

We walked past Buckingham Palace (The King wasn’t in) St James Park ( again, crazy squirrels everywhere) Westminister Palace and Big Ben ( just wow ) Westminister Abbey (again wow) The Tate Gallery, and after getting a little disoriented on the walk back we passed through Belgravia ( $$$ ) and lots of absolutely amazing architecture before finally finding Hyde Park and a coffee shop for some lunch and a much needed break before our feet fell off.

I’m still amazed at the beauty of the buildings and the sheer size of them and the fact that they were built hundreds of years ago with such attention to detail. Everywhere you look there is another spectacular building or row of terraces. You can clearly see why so many movies and books are based in London with the grand old architecture everywhere.

Snow is predicted today, so our fingers are crossed that Jason gets to celebrate his birthday in the snow ☃️❄️