Ginger Without Borders

Today we walked. And walked. And walked some more. Until our legs were ready to fall off.

Lauren is not used to my version of traveling. In my version, you wander all day. No plans needed, eventually you will find something interesting. Maybe you have a bit of an outline for where you want to go, and maybe it gets followed. For the most part, though, you are just walking and looking, trying to take in the city. For the past few months, I have been on a super health kick, so walking 10 miles is no big deal for me. For her, on the other hand, standing for work is normal (she is a flight attendant), but walking 10 miles? Nope.

Today: we walked from County Hill to Big Ben [it’s under renovation right now and hidden under scaffolding!!! Super sad I can’t take awesome photos of it!!], through St. James Park to Buckingham Palace, back through St. James Park to Horse Guards Parade, looped around to go back towards Westminster Abbey, looped back down again along the Thames Riverwalk, through the Whitehall Gardens, across the Golden Jubilee Bridges, down past the Waterloo bridge and Blackfriars bridge, all the way to Shakespeare’s Globe, and finally Lauren gave up. We ended up walking back to the hotel near County Hill and resting for a bit – only to go back out and walk down to where we ended again. 20,852 steps later (my apple watch keeps track), we finally grabbed dinner by Waterloo bridge with Tringa, and ended a pretty jam-packed day. Overall totally worth it. The best way to see the city is to walk it! Lauren may disagree though, haha.

P.S. Dad – Still alive. Lauren is not, but I am.