London last week day four
London last week day four, a set on Flickr.
11/7/2011
The first thing we did today was to visit Canary Wharf to catch up with a friend John Pring who Steven had done work with in London in past years.
John owns several real estate companies and we visited his property management office here. Canary Wharf is the financial and banking area of london with up market high rise apartments and several large tower blocks that house many banks offices and financial centers. It was great to catch up with John and to compare the businesses. We got some great information and an in-depth insight that will be invaluable.
After a lovely lunch, compliments of John, at a very nice Turkish restaurant we headed towards Westminster Abbey at about 4:30pm. Unfortunately when we arrived at the Abbey it had closed to visitors at 3:30pm so we thought we would need to come back if we wanted to see inside. After walking around the entrance that Kate had entered for the wedding, Sheree saw people going in. She listened to what they were saying at the gate and as it turned out there was a service on that lasted an hour. As long as you stayed for the whole hour you could go in at no cost, so off we went.
The service was lovely with the organ playing and a choir singing. The hour went very quickly and we got to have a quick look around before making a donation and leaving. We think that we actually had a better time as we got so much more than just a look around.
When we got home around 7pm Bex and Andrew had made a lovely lasagna for tea.