Two out of three isn't bad...

Saturday, April 15. Mild.

Our goal today was to do three things: One was the War Rooms, second was to take the boat to Greenwich and finally, to do the Imperial War Museum.

We had a quick breakfast and off to the Cabinet War Rooms where we encountered about a one hour line up and then spent two hours inside this fabulous set of rooms. During that time we decided that it was impossible to do all three so we scrapped Greenwich.

After the War Rooms it was now after noon and we hoofed it to the Imperial War Museum across Westminster Bridge which was a virtual solid mass of people sauntering across, even though this is where that car rammed into just such people as us and killed 5 people a couple of weeks ago.

At the Museum we had a short snack and headed in. It is a five story building in a rather odd arrangement of displays, all fascinating. The last stop was the fifth floor where there is a room displaying 160 Victoria Cross medals, all donated by a very rich and patriotic benefactor.

We took the tube home, grabbed a quick dinner and we were soon home. We had refreshing showers and then got down to the blog and checking our pictures while Fellette put her PJs on and tucked under the covers with her iPad at 6:30.

We accomplished two of our three goals today, not bad.

Tomorrow we go to Kew Gardens and take in a play at night. [We hope.]

Great day.

A sentry in Horse Guards Parade.

The Guards Memorial next to Horse Guards Parade. 

In the queue for the Churchill War Rooms... a 1 hour wait.

A Royal Marine sentry guarding the entrance to the Operations Room.

The Operations Room.

Churchill's bedroom hidden away in the labyrinth of underground rooms.

Across The Thames river and over Westminster Bridge on the way to The Imperial War Museum.

Time for a shot of our hotel from the middle of the bridge.

After a 25 minute walk, we arrived at the museum.

Fellette and Craig under two 15 inch Naval guns used during WWI and WWII 

The central atrium of the museum... a Spitfire, a V2 rocket, and a Doodle-Bug.

The Rolls-Royce engine of a Spitfire. They made 165,000 of these bloody things during the war... unbelievable.

A German artillery gun. 

The actual Nazi eagle from the German Reichs Chancellery in Berlin.

Briton's attitude to war has changed somewhat during modern times.

A piece of the World Trade Centre salvaged from the wreckage of the 9-11 attack. 

Back to the hotel on the Tube after a LONG day.