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The final leg on the river. Starting at the source we ended up at Westminster. Walked to Hampton and the balance by river boat. We have finished. TheThames ( any earlier walk to took us to the barrier)

Kew Gardens: puts Hampton Court to shame. Far far better food, excellent shop, more impressive gardens, birds. Scones and Chelsea buns too. Especially fun place to wander. The hive, the Lilly pods, the teepee trees. On and on.

Tuesday:

Victoria and Albert museum, Raphael cartoons. Too rushed for special undies exhibit. Excellent William Morris room, cafe,at the V&A.

Evensong at St Paul's cathedral. Least impressive of any of the evensongs we have gone to. Small choir could not hear any of these lessons nothing inspirational lovely cathedral and lovely organ music

Wednesday:

a day of wandering about, aimlessly, directed shopping for QB. Later, Tom yum at Selfridges,p Piperade for dinner. Excellent,

Thursday:

visit to a beautiful Catholic Church near the Wallace collection followed by a visit to their fine collection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27s,_Spanish_Place.

-National portrait gallery, artists collecting fellow artists special exhibit.

-Walk down embankment to borough market, Neil's yard cheese, and

-Southwark cathedral. Caught the end of evensong. Fine choir, final anthem performance before going off to Kraków to perform. Excellent sound.

Friday:

-A nice day of wandering about somewhat aimlessly. Grosvenor square park, interesting game of Jenga. Mount street park and gardens with great palm tree.

-Mayfair with its many newly restored buildings.

-a very very fine dinner made by Bobby. Lamb, pasta, peppers de padron, banana cake…..truly fine

Saturday

-regents canal walk, Limehouse to Paddington via tower of London,Lison Grove, little Venice.

Sunday

in the Park with George, and many many others

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Last day before wandering to London.
Last day of the daily blog of this trip. Tomorrow we are in London proper for a week.

Today: A visit to Hampton Court palace and it's grounds. Then a boat ride to Kew for a last evening in"rural" Thames.

Traditional British pie for lunch along with mushy peas some amazing folded napkins. The great vibe visited thanks to Yasmin. The kitchen, as Bobby pointed out, was the highlight.

Thames river boat to see the final rural section of the river.

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Royal horticultural show at Hampton court. We were not the only people there. Very crowded as expected.Very well organized event.

Of special interest to us:

Solar drip rain barrel irrigation with flow control, irrigatia.com

Air pot.com improved root control and growing improvement

Drought resistant garden, QB has the planting list.

Some roses of note as well as Japanese maples.

Wonderful lavender garden

And the concept gardens of course.

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Friday 8 July

Busy weekend here as this is both the Royal horticultural society flower show as well as Wimbledon week and finals.

A rest day after the 15+ mile walk yesterday. See the show tomorrow. Enjoyed the warren house and its interesting property, building and grounds.

While not for today, a new virtual tour of Westminster has just been released. Worth a gander.

http://www.westminster-abbey.org/visit-us/virtual-tour

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Thursday 7 July no rain forecasted

We made it!

Another easy path day. Thames, as expected, is becoming more urban and complete with more pubs and towns on the path.

Walton bridge: earlier one painted by both Canaletto and Turner. Bridge collapsed replaced by a 2013 variety.

Doombar outside of Sudbury. Then a celebratory ice cream near some very large houseboats.

Finished the planned walk and book at Hampton Court palace. Very crowded as expected due to the Royal Flower show, apparently the largest in the world.

Public bus to our hotel as no way to get a taxi with the crowds. Surrey buses do not transfer to city buses, they are feuding so no transfers, one takes cash only, the other contactless only. Could not pay for QB, only one payment per card permitted, Sir. They don't need the EU for regulations.

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6 July no rain forecasted, nice day

First stop Runnymede. Kipling poem suitable for an anthem. Kennedy memorial and other signage.

Lovely bronze piece, the jurors, as well as the Kennedy and American bar association memorial. No bronze of king John or the barons. National trust caps did not mention the magna carta. No tea shirts. One shopping bag. So much for marketing.

Staines: the George. Doombar, free house, large place with discount beers

Just past the staines bridge, the London Stone, marking the upstream extent of the city of London as granted by Richard I to raise money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone_(riparian)

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5 July Tuesday no rain forecasted

Windsor Castle does not allow a circumnavigation of the castle.

Visit to st. John the Baptist, parish church of Windsor with its 1600 painting of the last super.

So we wandered around seeing if we could go around it and a wide way and ran across the Queen's Gardens Farm Shop

The wander turned into an 8-9 mile wander. Pleasant on dry weeded paths and sections of B roads.

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Monday 4 July no rain forecasted

This is an appropriate day and holiday to invite our good British friends to return under much better circumstances then when they left in the 18th century. Unlike the EU we will welcome you. Brexit can mean Amen,American entry.

Oh, it is OK for you to bring tea. We have lots of milk.

Windsor and Eton walk, historical tour as per our book. No mud. Old buildings Eton has extensive grounds for such s small school; about the cost of Stanford.

Many birds on the river.

We extended the walk by heading up to the statue of George III. Ran into BBC one filming a series on family pets: women on horses. They were riding back and forth.

Asked the BBC film crew why the stature looked more like cesear with a wreath. Well, he liked to dress up.

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