London: Day 5

Busy, busy day sightseeing, mostly by foot, occasional help from the Tube.

Let's see there was Buckingham Palace.

Which is right next the to Queen Victoria Memorial

Past the Royal Horse Guards...at just the right time...

And then around the other side of the "block"...

As close as we could get to Number 10 Downing Street...

Had lunch in a park then across Westminster Bridge looking back at the Palace of Westminster...

So that we could get to Lambeth Palace - the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury

Where we found a short door...

And squirrel number 38 for the day...

Who thought Christian's legs were a tree trunk!

At this point we stopped in at the Lambeth Palace Library...the gem of the day. Free to enter. However, for us bookophiles, you can't get in to the place where all the books are, you have to book ahead and they bring out what you want to see. But they had a brilliant exhibition called: Her Booke: Early Modern Women and Their Books in Lambeth Palace. We both enjoyed the Jane Austen reference, but mostly, I enjoyed a wonderful exhibit  that was allowed to speak for itself, with no unnecessary modern interpretation and patronising assumptions. 

Then down stairs...many stairs to this platform and that...and what goes down must go back up again too. 

Finishing the day with evensong at Westminster Cathedral. We appreciated the real effort by staff to ensure that this an actual worship service, people were warned "it's an hour, and you must not leave". We passed by the memorial to William Wilberforce (the powerhouse, Christian politician behind the abolition of slavery in the UK and her dominions), and on the way out the memorial to missionary David Livingstone. No photography inside...so this is us on our way out.

Definitely keeping to a walking holiday...today we maxed out at 24 167 steps!