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 ☃️❄️

Kilometres walked : Saturday – 4, Sunday – 20.

Sunday 5th March, 2023.

After an extremely long and average travel day yesterday, we finally made it to London. Long distance plane travel is so overrated.

Arriving to Paddington, London we were immediately hit with freezing temperatures. Out came all the thermals🥶 Excitingly arriving at our accommodation which is in a fabulous location and looks beautiful on the outside, we were disappointed to see our room with 2 single beds🥴 Thankfully today they have moved us to a double ( still tiny ) which overlooks the beautiful square outside ( where there are heaps of hyperactive grey squirrels bouncing around)

We easily clocked up 20 kms today meandering around Hyde Park ( where every second person had a dog )Kensington Gardens and Palace ( No Royals spotted )Notting Hill & Portobello Road. We’ve never seen so many high end cars in one suburb. I think Porsches are the new Datsun’s. We lost count after a while. It’s definitely going to take a few days to get used to the busyness and craziness of a big city.

Kilometres walked: 12

Friday 3rd March, 2023

A seemingly typical Singapore day. Rain, rain and just a bit more rain. It certainly didn’t deter us though. After a long slow stroll around Fort Canning Park, meeting fellow Aussies along the way, we then ventured to Lau Pa Sat Hawker market for the best food yet. So many intense and delicious smells in one small space. After not really knowing quite what we ate the night before ( we woke up feeling fine ) we opted for vegetarian again. So yummy we also bought takeout for dinner. Definitely our favourite hawker market.

Singapore do gardens extremely well. It’s a concrete jungle completely covered in greenery. Every available space is taken up with pot plants, wall gardens and garden beds. Of course the required rainfall is definitely in their favour.