What we did do in July was go to the Olympics. We were lucky enough (and in the first ticket draw) to get tickets to the cross country phase of the the three day eventing at Greenwich. But before I write about that (I feel I should devote a whole blog to this), we went to London on Wednesday 18th July - a recci trip so to speak.
With our Olympic tickets, we got a free zones 1-9 travel card, so once in London, out travel was free, but we had to get to London. Now courtesy of the magic pass, we can also get to London free, as First do a bus between Victoria (Coach Station) and Legoland, which stops in a few other places, and luckily Slough is one of them. But as we had never done this before, we thought that we should try this out.
So, getting up rather early for a day off, off we went. The magic pass worked and we arrived safely at Buckingham Palace Road (outside Victoria) and descended into the bowls of the earth - well the Underground anyway. Then Victoria to Bank, Bank to Monument and the DLR to Greenwich and off we get to try to locate the park. Now there were a few of these 'games makers' about, and not being that au fait with Greenwich we asked them which way to go. Helpfully they didn't seem to know either, but were sure it was right out of the station. Shame it was left, but luckily I had remember the A-Z and we found it without to much further difficulty.
After a quick wonder about, we went back to the now restored Cutty Sark
We had great fun being tourists in our own capital city (which let's face it, we only live 40 minutes from).
We then got a but up to St Paul's. but as they wanted £15 each to go in,
we walked across the Millennium Bridge to the Globe Theatre and found a convenient pub next door!
Then back on the bus up west and a quick trip to Hamleys before getting the bus back to Slough.
All sorted.
