Buckingham Palace and the RAF museum

Hello all,

Welcome to the latest chapter of our London travels. Today was another big, yet wonderful day (which is beginning to become the norm for us).

and can you believe it? The weather was perfect -again!- (we are beginning to wonder whether we have bought the weather ie Drought, with us).

We started by individually taking a tube/underground/train ride to Victoria Station, where we met and proceeded to our first destination - The Buckingham (said quickly as one word, and not separated into two ie Bucking-Ham) Palace. We proceeded to take the full tour of the Palace, through is opulent wings, throne rooms, ball rooms and secret rooms all included. Unfortunately no photos were allowed, so you will have to visit and tour yourself for you to get the complete picture. However you will need to wait until next year as they only open it to the public during the Summer months.

Thanks for Carol, Malcolm and Norman for coming with us on that leg of the tour.

Lunch was at the Green Park (known for its lack of formal floral gardens due to its original purpose of burial ground) - followed by another tube ride to RAF Museum!

We were joined by George and Hardev (apologies if this is spelt incorrectly) who assisted us in arriving at the museum and also in its tour. All aspects of the RAFs history was covered, from the first flight in Britain, WW1, WW2 (the blitz/battle of Britain), Falklands war and even some from the last Gulf war.

The RAF experience was then succeeded by Tea at Hardev's house (with his famous hospitality) followed by dinner and our second presentation at -- both went extremely well, and once again our hosts appeared to be impressed by our new presentation. We were just happy to share the company and food.

Thanks for joining us on this leg of our journey, see you tomorrow!