It's always rainy in london!

This morning was our city tour with a blue badge guide. It turned out to be a tricky proposition since the London 10K was being run and many of the streets we needed to travel were closed. Our guide, Richard, did a great job of navigating around to some different sites and had lots of interesting facts about seemingly everything we drove past. We took a group photo near the Albert memorial and then we dropped about half the group off in the area so they could go to church. The rest continued on to the British museum where we concluded our tour.

The museum had the medals for the upcoming Olympics on display along with the usual outstanding exhibits. This museum is the home of the Rosetta Stone, one of the largest mummy collections outside of Egypt and the 'Elgin' marbles. These are the carvings that were on top of the Parthenon and brought to England. It's interesting to think we've come full circle - from the ruins of Greece to the ruins of Greece.

After the tour was free time. Some went out to Wimbledon, others chose another museum and again with the shopping. We met early for dinner and had a very traditional 'bangers and mash' sausages and mashed potatoes in a pub while we watched the men's tennis finals at Wimbledon. The locals were very invested since a Brit was playing. It's always fun to be part of the local culture.