Czeching out London
Today I spent six hours taking a 19 year old Czech guy called David on a walking tour of central London. It was his first visit to the city, so I just wanted him to have a quick overview of the main tourist locations.
We started at Buckingham Palace where our arrival coincided with the colourful ceremony of the Changing of the Guard. Then we wandered through St James’s Park and up to Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. After some lunch at the Middle Eastern cafe “Gaby’s”, we strolled around Trafalgar Square, down Whitehall (including Horses Guards), around Parliament Square, outside the Houses of Parliament and over Westminster Bridge.
We spent a couple of hours on the South Bank which was heaving with activity. There were lots of people dressed up as different kinds of statues or characters, including one guy made up like Johnny Depp in “Pirates Of The Caribbean” and another guy who did amazing things with four small ‘floating’ globes. Four black kids put on an acrobatic display of break-dancing and there were all sorts of musicians. Finally there was a temporary fountain display with a changing format and the little kids were loving running in and out of it.
The weather was great – so who could ask for more. And I clocked up 18,000 steps on my pedometer – so it was good for me.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:16 pm
A ‘Middle Eastern’ Cafe. As Chad says, what no ‘greasy spoon’. And there are some good ones in Central London.
August 2nd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
it was very nice time for me…because I haven`t been there before…and I had a very good cicerone 🙂