Today we met up with some people from our Kumuka tour. We caught the bus to Trafalgar Square and had a look around there (Nelson's Column, National Gallery). We were supposed to meet them in Charing Cross tube station just underneath the square. Unfortunately there are two parts to the station so we were all in different places! It's also very hard to find out where other people are when you are underground and mobile phones don't work!.But we found them eventually.
We headed to Leicester Square to grab some lunch at an Italian place and caught up with everyone's news.
After that one of the girls wanted to check out the New Zealand store in Covent Garden (its actually a combined NZ, Aus. South African and Canadian store). There we found all the things we can't get in a normal supermarket, like L&P, Tim Tams, Marmite etc etc. We'll definitely be going back there when we are craving for some NZ things.
From there we headed back to Embankment Pier. We split up at this point as a couple wanted to do the Tower of London and the rest of us decided on a circular cruise on the Thames. It was a beautiful day for a cruise though very cold as we sat on the open top deck to see all the sights.
The cruise went down the river past Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, past the Tower of London, under Tower Bridge and many many more (too many to remember).
After the cruise we walked from Westminster pier to Whitehall and walked past the Banqueting House which one of the girls wanted to go into, so we checked it out. It was built by Inigo Jones in the early 17th-century, after a commission from James I. It has an amazing ceiling, painted by Peter Paul Rubens.
(not allowed to take photos, or steal them, so here's a link)
We wanted to watch the new James Bond movie but couldn't seem to find a theatre which was showing it! So in the end, we got some dinner at an Indonesian place and headed home.
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