Next Stop, London

The Shakespeare Hotel in Stratford, had a room
with a four-poster bed one year

We've been visiting England since the early 70's, probably gone there more than 30 times.  It never loses its charm for us and each time we go we see something new.  For years we visited castles and stately homes.  We've rented cottages and stayed in historic hotels.  We had walking books for every region and spent our time getting lost and loving it.  Met people in country pubs who took us to stately homes that weren't open to the public or home for a cup of coffee while they told us stories we'll never forget.
We had a pub book and searched out hidden ones and had the publican sign the book.

One of our favorite pubs is a haunted one, The Fleece in Bretforton

Love this country, never worry about the weather, it's usually chilly and that's ok, in fact that's part of why we go, to get away from our oppressive summer heat.  But this year London was suffering from it's own heatwave.  Many times we give London a miss, but this year our whole time in England was spent in London.  Though we've visited most of the tourist sites we decided to play tourist anyway.  We had prepaid for the Hop-on Hop-off bus and though we'd only bought a one-day pass they upgraded us and gave us a 2 day pass that included the bus, a boat ride and our choice of a couple of walking tours.

I still get a kick out of all the tourist sites, though we didn't get off till Trafalgar Square where a giant screen was set up, the National Opera was going to be screening an opera.

Walked across Tower Bridge, first time we'd done that in awhile

And we walked, miles, 5 or 6 miles a day, and city miles on hard concrete are so much harder than country ones.

I'm not sure I'll ever tire of England, I always say that if we hit the lottery that we'll buy a place there, till then we'll just keep making annual journeys.