London & Windsor

It was a day of travel triumphs and fails

We figured out how to ride a connecting train from one station to the Eurostar station in Brussels. Win!

We made it on the Eurostar and to London without issue. Win!

We found luggage storage for a day of exploring London. Win!

We figured out which way on the underground got us to pick up our NYE firework displays tickets. Win!

We found an excellent pub for lunch. Win!

We walked to a scone shop and got scones that looked amazing. Then I bit into it and realized it was cinnamon filled. LOSS. HUGE. LOSS.

We toured the Churchill War Rooms without waiting in line because I booked advanced tickets. Win!

We walked to an underground station to return to our luggage and it was PACKED! We couldn’t get on a train. Loss!

We walked/ran the 55 minutes across town and make it with 17 minutes to go before our luggage storage time ran out! Hard fought win!

We hauled our luggage and made a train heading for the airport to get our rental car that was also packed and wildly uncomfortable after that run across town. Another hard fought win.

We picked up our car, drove on the left and made it to our hotel in Windsor for the night. WHEW!!!

Then our hotel only had underground parking and it was full so trying to get around the garage was another ball of excitement.

That was a day!!! If they had a Chuy’s here I’d be a margarita deep by now...

Happy Americans!

Fish n chips & meat pie? SOLD!

Handsome dude!

"DO I LOOK BRITISH IF I DON'T SMILE?"

CINNAMON ADDED SCONE!! FAIL!!!

Waiting on the tour...

Churchill's War Room!

What a cool place to see! The center
of all decisions made by the British army

Mr. Museum goer

The offices were small, cramped and dingy

The beginnings of secured phone lines

I liked this quote.

Their bedrooms left something to be desired!

Amazing how far technology has come
since then

Churchill had to pee in a pot!!

I guess no one is immune
to Uncle Sam!

Once we'd adventured all over London trying to get back to our luggage, getting our luggage, eventually getting our rental car and driving to Windsor felt easy. I slipped into driving on the opposite side without much issue this time and our car had GPS so it was pretty simple to make the short drive up the motorway to Windsor. We were super hungry by then so we wandered into the little village for some dinner that came highly recommended.

We truly enjoyed our waitress, but the food was just ok. We did understand why Meghan would want to live here over London, though. It was an adorable village that we were excited to explore more the next morning.

Dinner in Windsor
A SALAD! FINALLY!