{"id":108,"date":"2016-06-02T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=108"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:04:42","slug":"june-2-tourist-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/02\/june-2-tourist-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2: Tourist in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was cloudy, breezy, and in the fifties.\u00a0 But strangely, I enjoyed that, and P.J did too.\u00a0 Excellent walking weather.\u00a0 P.J could not have done this much walking two years ago before her knee operation.<\/p>\n

\"Selfridge's,
Selfridge’s, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We bought a London public transport day pass.\u00a0 First we went to Selfridge\u2019s, looked at the overpriced merchandise, and instead just had some tea outside on their roof garden.<\/p>\n

\"Selfridge's
Selfridge’s Department Store, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We walked along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes never existed.\u00a0On to Madame Tussaud’s where the long lines and the high admission prices made us pass it up.\u00a0 We walked through Regent’s Park, very enjoyable, and had lunch there.\u00a0 We hopped on a double-decker bus, hopped out again, and like commuters rushed ahead to catch the connecting bus in front of us. This way we gave ourselves a rush-hour tour of central London from high atop a city bus.\u00a0 We wrapped up the day walking around Westminster Abbey and Parliament buildings, and then had a wonderful dinner at Savoir Faire<\/em>, a French restaurant.<\/p>\n

\"Piccadilly
Piccadilly Circus Bus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Random impressions: In London, they really don’t want cars.\u00a0 Discounted parking near the London Zoo was $50 a day\u2014 without the discount, $75.\u00a0 The tube is even busier than the New York subway, where we were just 11 days earlier.\u00a0 On the busy Piccadilly line, trains are only one or two minutes apart.\u00a0 On the endless escalators, stand on the right and don\u2019t block the left.\u00a0 P.J made the mistake of putting her suitcase on her left and people berated her for it.\u00a0 But otherwise, Londoners are extremely helpful.\u00a0 When it was obvious we were trying to figure something out, multiple times people came up and volunteered helpful information.\u00a0 Much friendlier than Paris, New York, or Boston.<\/p>\n

Photographs \u00a9 2016 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was cloudy, breezy, and in the fifties.\u00a0 But strangely, I enjoyed that, and P.J did too.\u00a0 Excellent walking weather.\u00a0 P.J could not have done this much walking two years ago before her knee operation. We bought a London public transport day pass.\u00a0 First we went to Selfridge\u2019s, looked at the overpriced merchandise, and instead … Continue reading “June 2: Tourist in London”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}