Saturday and the Hop On Hop Off Experience

At breakfast we said our farewells to Steve and his family and the two ladies named May from Sweden.

Jim and Claudia, Glen and Susan and Larry and I took off in search of bus tickets for the Hop On and Off bus tour.  We found them near the London Eye.  It then became a game of bartering for the best price and best route.

First stop was Tower Bridge where we transferred to a boat headed for Greenwich.  Claudia and Jim left us at this point.  As we arrived just before 1:00 the boat driver directed us to a tower with a large red ball.  This was where world time is set.  We got to see the ball drop, signaling that it was 1:00.  Pretty cool!

We toured the Marketplace where Larry got licorice at the sweet shop and I got a stitchery book at a needlework shop.

Susan and Glen did not catch the 2:00 boat, so we had to leave without them.  We then got back on the bus near the Tower Bridge and went all the way around London - back to where we'd started.  From there we walked and took the shortcut to Waterloo Station.  We picked up Cornish pasties and coke at the station for our dinners that night.