London so far.

We love London. It does not have the soul of Florence or Paris but it does have character.

We dined, more or less out of desperation at Garfunkel's on our first night here but I think we have now found our 'local'.

Roast beef last night, with baked carrots, brocolli, yorkshire pudding and both mashed and roast potatoes. I wanted to order a side of chips to complete the trifecta! Everything you could want in a meal and potatoes two ways.

Yesterday we had a day on buses and river boats and due to my unerring sense of direction I took us home from Windsor Pier via a longcut. We passed by the edge of Hyde Park and there saw a very tame squirrel who anticipated we may have a treat for him.



I understand northern hemisphere dwellers are probably bemused by our fascination with the rodents but there are cute when you see them rarely.

We have sailed on the Thames both yesterday and today, yesterday as far as Tower Bridge today to Greenwich, yesterday was a better day weatherwise but today as we returned the bridge opened for us as we sailed under, that is it opened coincidentally as we sailed under, the opening was necessitated necessitated by the yacht visible in the background. It apparently happens only 5 or so times a week so we were quite fortunate to see it.

The reason for the trip to Greenwich was to see Harrison's clocks and they did not disappoint. H1, H2 & H3 were all still ticking away after several hundred years and what works of art they are.

H4 is almost an anticlimax, it looks like a large fob watch its workings hidden but the others somewhat ironically are functionally beautiful.

I have seen Harrison's clocks, a telescope Gallileo made I can die a happy man!

Speaking of death, Judy has been contemplating career opportunities and a possibility presented itself as we sailed in gentle rain this morning - a window cleaner on the Shard as it is known, the tallest building in Europe. How hard can it be? It looks like they get to sit down all day and they move from top to bottom.



We are entertaining ourselves by laughing on the inside at some of the names. We had to travel in the Elephant and Castle direction on the Tube to get to our hotel the other day.

But we were struck by this establishment on our above mentioned longcut. No doubt purveyors of full bodied wines!