With warmer and drier weather threatening, Madrone and crew’s time in London is drawing to a reluctant close. London and St Katharine Docks have been absolutely fabulous places to spend the winter. We don’t often choose to sit in one place for this long, but living in London for six months gave us the chance to fully explore the city – we feel lucky to have had the opportunity.

And now, a pictorial ode to London…

Pedestrian staircase up to the London Bridge
Monument to the Great Fire of London
Tourists in London
Changing of the Guard, Buckingham Palace
Palace of Westminster
Enjoying the Thames
Sir Winston Churchill Statue, Parliament Square
St Olave Hart Street Church – we enjoyed many free lunchtime concerts here
Madrone at St Katharine Docks
The Shard
One of the too numerous to count times we crossed the Tower Bridge on foot
Where antibiotics were discovered by Fleming at St Mary’s Hospital in London
St Michael’s Church, Cornhill
Paddington Bear
New and old in the City of London- The Gherkin (2003) and St Andrew Undershaft (1532)
Lloyd’s of London
Cute pubs like this are found throughout London
Tower of London and The Shard at night
The Cheesegrater (Leadenhall Building)
Another Gherkin shot
Comptoir Bakery cinnamon roll- awarded Best cinnamon roll in London by Mike
Another crazy building in the City of London
Liverpool Street Station
Duke of Wellington Statue, Royal Exchange London
Southwark Cathedral
The Yards Covent Garden
Trafalgar Square
View of St Paul’s Cathedral from One New Change
Christchurch Greyfriars Churchyard, City of London
Tate Modern
St Dunstan in the East