London July 17, 2017

It is Monday today had brekky at our hotel and just decided to go where our heart leads us.  We knew we were going to see the Silver Vault so we just began walking from our hotel, with our map in hand we just made our way through the streets past beautiful buildings and gorgeous parks we get to Chancery Lane and head along finding what we were looking for.  

Wikipedia says the London Silver Vaults is a large subterranean market that opened as The Chancery Lane Safe Deposit on 7 May 1885. Originally renting out strong rooms to hold household silver, jewellery and documents, it transitioned to housing silver dealers in secure premises a few years later.

My sister Anne had seen the story of these vaults on  "Underground Britian" a televised program and said Sabine you should see this while you are there.  Ones imaginings could not come up to what we saw today no words really.  

We then continued on our way walking along the Strand and got back to St Martin in the Fields just near Trafalgar Square.  We really just continued on our way taking in as much as we could you could come back any number of times and only scratch the surface.  We then walked down to the Thames and walked along the embankment and made our way to our meeting place with Lia and Sharene we were meeting at Ye Old Cheshire Cheese a pub in Fleet Street rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire.  Sam and I had arrived early exhaustion really I was sitting by the old fire place and this chap from North Carolina who was having a drink there with his daughter said you are sitting in the exact spot where Charles Dickins always sat this was one of his fave pubs.  I would not have known this amazing. I went out into Fleet Street to find the girls and there they were just crossing the street lots of hugs and laughter, we had a very good night and they walked back to their hotel and us to ours.  

This was a lovely day an early start tomorrow we fly to Edinburgh in the morning.  All the best Sabine and Sam  xx