Buckingham Palace & Westminster...

HELLO!


Well we have had an exciting week pass us by. I have had the week off work and Sam only worked 1 day. This is what we've been up to...

Firstly one of my best friends Leah arrived for a holiday from Brisbane last Sunday. So bekki and I made an early morning trip to heathrow to pick her up (Sam slept in!). Leah did really well to overcome the jetlag and stay up all day on Sunday. First stop was an old english pub for a late lunch where Leah met up with her cousins. After lunch Sam joined us and we all visited Harrods for a whopping big delicious sundae!





Monday was a Bank/Public Holiday here and we all took the oportunity to visit Buckingham Palace. It was our first opportunity to do so as it is only open for about 2 months in summer when the Queen is away. It was absolutley amazing, unfortunately couldn't take pics to show you but we saw the royal thrones, beautifully decorated rooms and a special royal wedding exhibition.






We also went to see the Royal Mews (stables) within the palace grounds where i was hoping to see the queens horses all dressed up. We did see some of her horses but not in their formal gear! The Mews is also where the horse carriages are kept, they are very decorative.



After seeing Buckingham palace we walked along to Westminster Abbey where we got an up close view of Big Ben. It was a gorgeous day and nice wandering around there taking in all the sights.


We went inside Westminster Abbey which is a lovely, big, old church. It holds the tombs of many Kings & Queens.




In the afternoon we made our way to the Notting Hill Carnival. It is a huge carnival second biggest in the world after the one in Rio. An estimated 2 million people were there! So we had a look and moved on :) It was worth a look when we finally found the actual parade.

The following day Sam and I went to Spain for La Tomatina festival which i will blogg about next...

When we got back i had another day to spend with Bekki and Leah before they went on Contiki. We had a lovely 'High Tea' at Selfridges Hotel. It was very posh and we really enjoyed ourselves. Later we met Sam and some other friends in Covent Garden for dinner and drinks.