More travels with Mum

Excursion tale . . . We set out to tour London in beautiful sunny weather.


Walked past Buckingham Palace and by coincidence caught the guards doing their thing.


Walked along Rotten Row, which is where people ride horses.


Remarked how London is a city of rules. Almost everywhere one would want to lock a bicycle is off limits, unlike in Paris or Toronto.



Took a tour boat to Greenwich.





The entrance to Greenwich.


My Mum worked here after the war when she was in the Wrens.


She served meals to the officers in this hall. She came out through this door.


The tables were set up differently back in those days. They were in long rows, not on a diagonal.




In the floor of the chapel.



Mum lived in this building. Her bed was in a long room behind the two shaded windows.



We had lunch in the Yacht Pub down this lane. A terribly long wait. We had to complain and threaten to leave before they brought us our food.



An interesting art installation on the wall.


We crossed to the Isle of Dogs through the tunnel under the Thames. There was a great mass of people rushing through. One young woman actually shoved past my mother and almost pushed her over! Mum said that when she lived there, it was usually quite empty.


A view of Greenwich from the Isle of Dogs.


Another view of Greenwich.