~William Garrow, 1790.
We awoke in a hotel in Oxford. After completing our morning preparations, we returned the rental car and boarded a train to London. We arrived in London at Paddington Station and then switched to the "tube" and took it to King's Cross. Harry Potter fans may remember that King's Cross is the location of platform 9 3/4 leading to the train that takes Harry and his friends to Hogwarts. The Harry Potter store in the shopping area of the station offers tourists the chance to use a prop and take a picture of what appears to be a trunk-laden cart disappearing through the wall. For us, it was a station that had a luggage storage service and a stop on the Hop on Hop off bus tour route.
We spent the next few hours seeing little bits of London using a hop on/hop off bus tour. The pace was definitely very different from most of our travel up to that point. Traffic was heavy and noisy and construction was everywhere.
From our vantage point on the bus and appropriate "hop off" points, we managed to see the Tower of London,
the Old Bailey, (any Garrow's Law or Rompole fans?),
and the site of the former Newgate Prison.
When it came time to wander around near Buckingham Palace, we noticed ladies and gents dressed in semi-formal wear.
Apparently the occasion was a Royal Garden Party.
Whatever the event was, it must have been pretty serious!
After our wanders, we retrieved our luggage and then caught a cab to the London City Airport. We had plenty of time before our flight to Scotland, so we had dinner.
We noticed a guy in the corner that looked like Neil Oliver, the Scottish archaeologist with a popular series of history documentaries. Compare the picture on my phone with the guy in the corner and tell me that's not the same guy!
Our last travel mode for the day required an airplane to take us to Edinburgh Scotland.
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