On Saturday morning, my mom arrived from the US. Once again, we had a goal to keep our guest awake for the entire day so she could try to get on a normal sleep schedule. We gave her time to take a shower and have a cup of coffee and then it was off we went. First stop was Borough market. The Borough market takes place every Thursday, Friday and Saturday and has a wide variety of produce, prepared foods and other things for purchase. We’ve had several friends recommend visiting the market, in particular they have recommended a stand that sells grilled cheese and potatoes with raclette cheese. I’m sure you’re thinking, they are going all the way to a market just to have a cheese sandwich. Yes, we were and amazingly we were not the only ones with that plan as there were 20+ people queued up. The grilled cheese was made with emmental cheese and had onions cooked into it. They were quite tasty. Cory also found a stand selling baklava. He bought enough baklava for us to eat for a week so I am going to have to forgo my evening ice cream for baklava.
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| Cheese Sandwich |
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| Baklava |
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| Market |
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| Fruit |
After the market we walked to London Bridge. For having a song written about it, it really lacks eye appeal. Tower Bridge is typically the bridge that people recognize and frequently mistake for London Bridge. Since I am a Londonite, I figured I should do a little research on the origin of the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down as I was sure it had some significance. Turns out it's not much of a story and there are differing opinions on the origin of the song. Most popular thought is it simply has to do with the difficulties of bridging the River Thames. Other theories suggest that the song dates back to the Vikings or is just made up.
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| Looking at Tower Bridge |
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| Standing on London Bridge |
From London Bridge we headed to the Tower of London. Near the Tower of London were tons of pigeons. Brady LOVES chasing birds and got at least 30 minutes of entertainment.
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