Travel Journal - London 2024 - Day 2 - Morning - Vintage Double-Decker Bus Tour
Day 2's rough agenda:
Morning: Open-top vintage double-decker bus tour around London
Evening: Fawlty Towers the Play @ the Apollo Theatre in the West End
Had to get up fairly early in the morning to take the bus to the Bus Depot where I would board the open-top vintage double-decker bus for my tour around downtown London.
It was a drizzly morning, so the windows inside the bus were quite foggy.
My first glimpse of Big Ben from the transit bus (which was a double-decker).
After getting off the bus, I walked to the Bus Depot.
This is where I was to board the vintage double-decker....but I was VERY early, so I wandered around some more.
After my wander, I found my way back to Victoria Coach Station to board the vintage open-top double-decker bus. Victoria Coach Station is HUGE! Busses are still a major way to get around England, as compared to Alberta where Greyhound was really the only option - now defunct.
My seat at the back of the bus, up top.
Open top vintage double-decker bus tour- Part 1
Open top vintage double-decker bus tour- Part 2
Open top vintage double-decker bus tour- Part 3
Open top vintage double-decker bus tour- Part 4
Canadian Embassy. Go Canada!
Trafalgar Square
Then about half-way through the bus tour, we disembarked at The Tower Of London to transfer to the boat on the Thames! We had some time to explore around the Tower before boarding the boat.
The Tower of London, viewed from the upper deck of the bus.
The fog hid the tops of most of the skyscrapers....we couldn't see the top of the Shard.
London's City Hall....quite the building!
Low tide on the Thames.
Then our tour boarded the boat, and we floated down the Thames from The Tower Of London to Westminster, where Big Ben & Parliament are located.
The skyscraper is called "The Skygarden"...I have a dinner reservation later in the week at "Fenchurch", at the top of the Skygarden.
There's a health spa underneath this bridge!
The Globe theatre- a replica of the original Globe Theatre where Shakespeare presented his plays.
There used to be a railway bridge here, but it was moved.
If the lions are underwater, you know there's a flood!
