Chris and Greg’s Travel Blog

London

London has really turned on some glorious weather for our last couple of days. A great end to an epic holiday. I hope you have enjoyed our travels, thanks for following & we will see you back home. 👋

The Cutty Sark is a clipper & was built in 1869 to transport tea from Shanghai to London. In her heyday she was the fastest ship in the world. She is the only surviving tea clipper.
From 1883 when steamships dominated the tea trade, the Cutty Sark was sent to Australia to collect wool.
City in the background.
On our way to dinner- Trafalgar Square.
Pre-theatre dinner.
We saw “Operation Mincemeat” at the Fortune theatre. It was fantastic, very entertaining.
One of many theatres.
Outernet – beautiful images on adjoining screens.
Photo bombed by a Bobby! 😂 Charlie & Cams were out & about as he was opening the new UK parliament so there was lots of police & security around.
Buckingham Palace
The King’s Standard is flying which means he is in the house.
St James Park
The London Eye & Cody’s office in the white building next to it . He is doing it tough overlooking the river & Big Ben.
Big Ben is absolutely sparkling. It & a lot of other buildings were cleaned up for the coronation.
Benjamin Franklin’s home while he was in London.
The highest mountain in Qld was named after this fellow – Bartle Frere
The iconic portrait of Captain Cook.
The Endeavour’s cannon that was thrown overboard when they ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef. Cook was surveying the east coast of Australia at the time. The ship was saved by throwing 6 of its guns & other heavy objects overboard.
Lord Nelson’s jacket showing where he was hit in the left shoulder with a musket ball in the battle of Trafalgar. It was a fatal shot.
The inscription reads “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few – Winston Churchill”. Well said Winston!
The painted ceiling in the Queen’s bed chambers, near the Old Royal Naval college Greenwich.
Elizabeth I
The tulip stairs. 😍
The Old Royal Naval College Greenwich with the city in the background.

That’s it from me, cheerio 👋

Chris Gordon

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