It was another sunny day but there was a slight breeze that made it feel cooler than the last few days. As always, Amelia enjoyed the playground. One of the highlights of this park is seeing the squirrels.
This afternoon, Suzy and I had booked to do a guided walking tour of Notting Hill. However, while we were at the park, the organiser rang to say that we were the only people booked on this tour and so it couldn't run today.
We caught a Northern Line train from East Finchley to Tottenham Court Road station where we changed to the Central Line to go to Marble Arch station.
It was 3:40pm when we got there and so we decided to go across the road to a Sainsburys Store to buy ourselves water for the walking tour. I've never seen such a crowded shop in all my life. The queue for the cash registers snaked back and forward through the shop down and around every aisle. We started to worry that we'd miss the 4pm start of the tour.
We saw various other places where they lived and worked. Some places had plaques on the outside wall to indicate when they lived there. Several times we caught the underground to go from one site to another.
The locations included Marlyebone Station, Soho, Baker Street, Saville Rowe, Carnaby Street, a shop selling Beatles memorabilia. The final location was the famous pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road. Our guide took photos of us posing as we went over the pedestrian crossing.
To get home, our guide suggested an alternative route rather than going back the way we came. So we caught the underground from St Johns Wood to Green Park where we changed to Green Park and then to the Victoria line to Euston and finally the Northern Line to East Finchley.
Nicky and John had a busy afternoon and were too tired to go out and so John got some take-away food from their favourite fish and chips shop.
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