It is not as cold today, London has been freezing, but the sun struggled and showed a little, so we walked up through the Mall, to check on Buck House - the flowers in St James Park are still prety and make a lovely background to the Palace. St James park was full of french students on the regular field trip to London, must be a right of passage to all french children. But it is a pretty place, we spotted young squirrels, lots of ducks, and pidgeons, and some brave locals siting in the stripped deck chairs that adorn all London parks ( and you pay to use them)
The beauty of this apartment is that we were in front of the palace within around a quarter of an hour - allowing for photo stops all the way.
Earlier we walked up through the theatre district, then on towards The City - the lovely term used for the financial district, there is always something new to see, but at the moment, there is a lot of road work and city beautyfying going on - I think the Olympics is an excuse for a lot of city work now, but the sad thing is that that a lot of buildings are also getting permanent bollard structures in front of the for security, a sign of the times.
The only news is the election - it will be interesting to see the country wake up to most probably a new governement, of sorts, as it could well be a hung parliament. We are off on a train again tomorrow - Liverpool, so will have a lovely day through the midlands.
We wait with baited breath to see if the ash cloud develops again, some flights in the north were closed this morning, but opened again later - it seems to be a day by day issue at the moment.
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