London Trip Day 8 - Last Day

The last day of our trip. We decided to go to Buckingham Palace to see the Changing of Queen's Guard. Before we visit that place, we never thought that the process would take so long, and was that magnificent.

That morning, we checked out the hotel room first. Put our suitcase to the concierge first. Then took underground to St. James Station. We got a sense that there would be lots of people gathering and waiting for the process. So we'd better be there earlier, a little bit.

Took off the underground, we had to pass through a commercial area, a park (there are so many parks in London, so good). Then reached the place. It is the entrance of the Buckingham Palace. Police were preparing for the process. Pulling out the traffic lights, setting up barriers to block people, clearing the roads.... There were so many people there already. We had to squeeze and struggled for a while to settle down and anchor a place for better view.

We waited for about an hour. Then the process came. It was so grand, actually. A lot of horses, solders with those thick furry hats. You know, black hats with red uniforms. It was actually a parade. There was a route pass the entrance of the palace. And in front of the entrance, there is a U-turn route. You can clearly see all the horses and solders marching pass by. Those horses were very pretty and well-trained. The whole process was quite long, I think around 30-45 minutes altogether. As we were quite far away from the entrance, could not see the changing moment actually. But the parade was so great that you must go to see if you are in London. There is a schedule of the process. And would be change a little bit in different seasons.

The day was hot and it was afternoon. You'd better bring along with water and sun glasses. After the parade, there were so much horse craps on the road. There were automatic cleaning device that especially for this job. It is a truck with sweepers in motors. The whole cleaning and other traffics lights restoring process was so fast. The traffic there could be resume in quite a short period. That is cool.


After that, we went to visit Victoria and Albert's Museum. I couldn't remember what were inside that museum. But I remember the lobby is so nice and modern, especially the glass sculpture under the ceiling. See. So great.

Leaving this museum, we went to the Science Museum. It is quite a good place for kids to experience science. It is absolutely bigger and better than the one in Hong Kong. So sorry.

Then we back to hotel. It was almost 4:00 pm. We took our suitcase from concierge and head to home, Hong Kong.

We took the same route as what we arrived the hotel, just in a reverse direction. We were not in a hurry to take the plane, as planned, got enough time to deal with any thing out of expected. Anyway, we still need to take the 11 hours flight to back home, of course, with our merry, pretty, satisfaction memories.

That's all for the trip to London.

There would be another trip log later, stay tune!