Catch up and Lots of Churches

It's  been a few days without an entry, but not much was going on.  Saturday was our last day in Edinburgh and we spent it mostly shopping and having a nice meal at a place called the  Copper  Still.  We didn't want to over tire ourselves as we had a long day of travel ahead of us on Sunday.

On Sunday morning we took the train from Waverley back to London.  We arrived in London in the late afternoon and had just enough time to go shopping in Fortnums and have an evening meal at Cafe Concerto.

Yesterday was our first full day in London and we got around. We started by doing a walking tour of "hidden London ", which included visits to a lot of Christopher Wren's churches.  

The photo above is of a "sword rest" in one of the churches,  where the men could store their swords during the service.  

This church is known as the wedding cake church, as the baker who baked the very first tiered wedding cake copied the idea from the church tower.

After the walking tour we ended up near St Paul's cathedral and decided to go in there. It's been many years since I last visited St Paul's and I had forgotten how Byzantine the decorations inside the dome were. We also went to the crypt to see the tombs of Nelson and Wellington,  amongst others.  No photography is allowed in the cathedral though so I'm afraid I have no pictures for you.  

We finished off the afternoon with a visit to the ruins of yet another  Wren church: St Dunstans.  After the church was destroyed during the bombings of WW2,  it was decided not to  rebuild it, but to turn it into a garden instead, and it's very beautiful. 

St Dunstans is right next to the Walkie talkie.

We finished off our first full day in London having dinner with our niece,  Alex and getting to see her new flat.  Tomorrow is the last full day of our trip and we will be flying back to North America on Wednesday.