Day out with another Claire from Brisbane

While Nic was busy painting, I met up with another friend of her's Claire also from Brisbane who's been here since start Aug for a day of walking around the city sights. Georgeous day but a bit cold (like an icebox!). We had planned on going on London Eye but queue way too long so maybe another day.

Borough Markets that have been on every Sat since the 13th century in same spot.




Heaps of taste testing - everything from bread & cheese to nuts, different teas, jams & all kinds of sweet & savoury delights!

I never knew there were so many varieties of olives!

Full size replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre built almost on original spot (think Shakespeare in Love movie) in 1997 - has an open air roof so the theatre season has closed now for the winter, reopens in May.

London Eye - like a giant bike wheel with pods on outside - takes about 30-45 mins to go around.

Looking back at London Eye from a bridge with sausage sizzle setup on footpath in the middle!

Big Ben

Buckingham Palace - will go back sometime when they're doing Change of the Guard.

Harrods - WOW... this place is amazing - groceries, gourmet food of all sorts, takeaways, tea room, clothing departments, fine jewellery (spare house deposit anyone?), egyptian escalators with real life opera singer while you go up & down and MORE!