We walked up Monument yesterday. It’s as tall as the distance from where the great fire of London started. I took a tall photo of it too!
There were 311 steps…
which made you feel dizzy by the time you got to the top but they give you a certificate.
The views were worth the dizziness. On one side you could see all over the city from St. Paul’s to the Gherkin.
The other side has views over the river and Tower Bridge.
Afterwards we tried out Boris’s new bike hire scheme. I hadn’t been on a bike since I was little, so I was a little unsteady but hopefully it’ll all come back to me soon… what’s that saying?
Next up we headed to Chiswick, where we spotted this Charles & Diana wall, which must have been painted a very long time ago. I also got Nigella Lawson’s Domestic Goddess book super cheap in a bookstore – I’ve always wanted it.
Then went for a tour of Fuller’s Brewery where they make London Pride.
We got to wear super fashionable orange vests.
It was fun learning about how the beer is made and getting to smell all the different malts – cara malt and chocolate malt were the nicest, so I tried to decipher them the beers after.
The best part of the tour was when they took us in to the cellar and let us try all of the beers.
We tried a bit of each beer but my favourites were Discovery, a light biscuity beer, and London Porter, which tasted like coffee and chocolate.
It was the last tour of the day and our nice tour guide let us stay in the bar until everyone had drank as much beer as they could manage. We all left drunk and the tour is awesome, so go on it if you get a chance!
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