Today we met up with my cousin Eamon who is living in London for a few months teaching before he backpacks through Europe over our Summer. We spent most of our time sitting on a tourist bus which stops at all the main attractions in London town. Our first stop was Hyde Park and a walk around the beautiful lake (although it smelt at one end quite bad) and around to Diana's memorial. I was very disgusted in what they had made for her. Although she was divorced from Charles and not involved with the royal family anymore, for a person who dedicated much of her life to help others and amazing work with charities and the poor it was very poor. As you can see in the picture it is a water feature that looks like a slip n' slide in a circle. The feature is fenced off by cheap garden wire with 2 plastic signs cable tied to the fence descibing the rules of entry. It was so degrading to the erson she was and what she deserved was somehting more dignifying that represented who she was. I left there feeling disgraced but feeling for the people of London who loved her so much and had to go through what I did all those years ago when it was first constructed....
From there we visited Harrods and walked through there amazing department store unable to buy anything as it was ridiculously priced. The main floor area with females bags was so expensive they didn't even have price tags attached and most of them were in glass boxes. So obviously whoever buys them is so rich they don't need to know the price as they can afford anything in this world. After covering the 4 floors quite quickly we then headed back on the bus tour for the remainder of the day. The tour passed Big Ben (name of the bells not the clock), london eye, river thames, london bridge, 10 downing street, westminster abbey and trafalgar square. A lot of old stories and building that still had blast marks from WWII which brought reality back about what happened all those years ago and how close to the city it was.
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