They do Queen's Birthday a bit differently here in England...it is on a Saturday, they don't have a public holiday and they actually celebrate it. The big event for the day is the Trouping of the Colours. We knew we had missed the Queen going the event but despite that it was still bedlam on Pall Mall and around the Palace.
Clearly everyone was waiting to see the Queen going back home...but as we had no idea of the timetable, there was no point hanging around. We set of towards Hyde Park and made our way up to Speakers Corner. Here while sitting on the grass having a little lunch, we caught the tail end of the RAF fly past over Buckingham Palace.
With lunch and the birthday celebrations over, we headed into Oxford Street on the shops so Anita could buy some new shoes. By the time we had done that it had started raining so it was a bus back to our hotel...and a visit to the local laundromat.
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