Lovely London

My ankles and legs hurt, and I seem to be coming down with a cold (yuck). It has been a full on last few days.
Saturday was our last day in Paris, we went to Parc Asterix which was very cool, we spent 8hrs going around the rides & watching the shows, and still didn't manage to get to everything. Next time maybe. Sunday we got the Eurostar to London, its quite funny. You checkin, then you go to Paris customs and they stamp your passport
to leave, then you walk about 10 metres and the British customs is there and they ask you questions about how long you're going for and whether you've been to England before and then they stamp your passport like you've just arrived in Britain.

We were met at the train station by the lovely Sam and Sean who lent us oyster cards, took us to their place where we dumped our stuff then took us for a tiki tour around some of the major sights - Big Ben, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Green Park, St James Park (we fed some super cute squirrels) and Buckingham Palace. A lot of roads were closed for some kind of race they were having.

It was great. Meat pies, mushy peas and mash for lunch, then yum hot chocolates at this little cafe, then an awesome asian tapas style dinner at this lovely restaurant, whose name I've forgotten but it was great. Stayed the night at Sam & Shauns, watched a movie. Today they made us yum pancakes then I went off tiki touring by myself. Got the tube to Knightsbridge and went walking around the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, it took ages coz i got hunting for Princess Diana's fountain. Then I walked to the Natural History museum which had a massive queue so didn't go in (public holiday today) then had a quick peek in the Victoria & Albert museum and the Science museum but didn't go in. Walked past Harrods and got some photos outside, then walked up to Hyde Park corner to see the Oz and NZ Anzac memorials, which I liked very much. Obviously, I liked ours way better than the oz one.

Kind of slap dash and lots of effort, wooden posts with crosses on top, some floral wreaths around them, some pictures and words engraved into them made me a bit emotional.
Went back and picked up Aroha then chatted to Sam & Sean and got some more advice (they were so awesomely helpful with advice on things to see and do) then went and checked in at the hostel we are staying at for the rest of our time here. Then got a bus to Harrods to go see the egyptian escalator my workmate told me about - its amazing!!! got photos too. Lots going on outside even though its late - street performers and buskers and such.