Quiet Day and Quick Trip to London

Tuesday morning we took Chuck and Colleen to the airport (just 30 minutes away), and headed home to do laundry, read, rest and re-coup from a very busy few days of travel and sight seeing.

One of the things on my list of things to do was to visit Parliament - apparently you can actually go into the House of Lords and the House of Commons and watch the politicians "debate" the issues before Parliament. I researched it and discovered that they were about to take a Summer Recess until September and that today (23rd) was the last possible date you could go it.

We headed into London around 3:30 (it takes an hour) and headed to Parliament. It was closed...they went "on holiday" last Friday. Perhaps we will take the public tours which start next Friday.  So we took a nice walk along the river, past Westminster Cathedral (who knew there was one of those as well as there being an Abbey).  It is the largest Catholic church in England, I believe. It is massive inside and most of it is covered with colorful marble.  It appears to be incomplete.

Westminster Cathedral

and over to the Victoria Station area.

Victoria Station

We stopped to buy theatre tickets for next week to see "Wicked" - really looking forward to that.

We had dinner at a nearby pub before taking the tube home to Richmond.  Check out the size of the pastry on my beef and ale pie.