London hop on and off

As a tourist I had felt the desperate need to go onto one of those hop on and off bus tours that travels throughout London. It was actually a really great way to learn about some of the history of the famous London landmarks and buildings. For instance at one stage their had been window tax where you had to pay money depending upon how many windows you had. People therefore plastered over their windows and the term daylight robbery was born. It was brilliant in terms of education and site-seeing. We hopped off and saw Buckingham palace which was amazing and I got a photo with the clock tower which holds big Ben. We had a cruise along the river Thames and were guided by a cheeky Pom who many a passing jokes at the local politicians. We saw the globe theatre on this cruise which is where Shakespeare's plays were, and still are performed. I finally felt like I was in London although it was all a bit surreal. Being a tourist is actually quite exhausting as see you see all new sites and learn about people, buildings and places and all your senses work on overdrive trying to take in as much as possible. Brett and I were absolutely stuffed when we returned back to Sean and  Zoe's. It was such a good thing that Sean is an amazing chef as we arrived home to a cooked dinner and collapsed on the couch.