I worked all day while mom and dad did their first day alone on the town. We met up for lunch around my office and grabbed a bite at Pizza Express. I knew dad would enjoy their salad which comes with their special house dressing. From there, they were off again for more adventure. I believe they spent most of the afternoon at Harrods and the V&A.
After work, I met up with them at Blackfriars (a tube stop) to join one of the walking tours. This one was a pub walk along the Thames. As with all the tours, we had a blast while getting educated on the history around the area. (see description below). Dad and I ventured out and tried all the local brews at each venue. Mom was our designated walker but I recall that she did get a cider at one shop.
From the tour, we headed back to my neighborhood and did a late night dinner at my local Arabic restaurant. As always, it was a great meal and we smelled of garlic for the remainder of the night.
Along the Thames Pub Walk:
If you only have time for one walking tour, this is the one to go on – it’s the classic London pub walk. It takes in London’s last remaining galleried coaching inn, its best riverside walkway, its oldest market, the finest art nouveau pub in England, the most sensational art gallery in the world (on Fridays we pop inside for a quick look!), the church where Harvard University’s founder was baptized, and an 18th-century pub that brews its own beer – plus lashings of Shakespeare, a jot of Dickens, lots of pub lore, and London’s best skyline panorama. It gets better. Because there’s also the recently discovered remains of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (and its sister playhouse The Rose)…and the thrilling, thatch-roofed reproduction that’s risen, Phoenix-like, only a stone’s throw away. Let alone the astonishing replica of Sir Francis Drake’s Golden Hinde, the ship that the great Elizabethan mariner sailed around the world over 400 years ago. Anchored there in the murky Thames, its timbers creaking eerily in the misty London night and The Globe just yards away…it’s a ghost ship lost in time. Go on this walk.
