Really close now. The big Golden in a years time.

So we spent a few days in London.

Made a nice change, bitter cold most of the time though.



Left Preston on a Virgin First Class, two hours, fifteen minutes later we were in a taxi heading for the hotel.



It doesn't get much better than that for service.



Nice deal with the Hotel, we used The Cavendish on Jermyn Street.

Nice place a favourite of The Churchill family
including a young Winston, and later on in life
also.



Rooms are somewhat on the small size. But for a Hotel nicely
situated on the corner from Piccadilly it's how they are.



Just perfect for us as it worked out.

We weren't intending doing anything special,
a few good walks, and boy did we walk.

About 10 miles average each day.


Piccadilly to The Tower Bridge, a jaunt over to The Shard.
A spin over the roof tops on The London Eye. Really nice.





Eros looking good as it should do.




Good to see The London Bus bearing the Volvo name,
we all know it's Brtish Leyland in a manner of speaking.

As long as we keep to to ourselves, nobodies any the wiser.



Some megga work going on underground with a massive
regeneration of The Tube. This has been going on for some
years now by all accounts should be very elaborate when everything
is done and dusted.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has said £1.3tn of investment is needed in the capital over the next 35 years in order for London to retain its world class status.

Transport is the biggest focus of the "London Infrastructure Plan 2050", and £973bn of spending is needed on transport alone to keep up with the rising population and number of people working in the capital.

Some plans are already in progress, others might not happen at all, but here are some of the transport developments suggested for London by 2050.

1. Thames Estuary airport, 18bn-25bn

In the report, Johnson suggests an airport located on the Thames Estuary as his preferred option for increasing aviation capacity, and should be opened by 2029.

It would also be supported by a high speed link to central London and an extension to Crossrail from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet, with road and rail connections to support access expected to cost an additional £19bn.

The Davies Commission, the government group set up to look at all options for increasing aviation capacity in London, has yet to make any conclusions however, despite Boris' clear preference for an airport in the Thames Estuary to the East of the city.



A lot on the go.

This building used to be The Regents Palace Hotel.




Conversion of Regent Palace Hotel into £300m retail development completed

Quadrant 3, the latest development in the Crown Estate's £1bn revamp of Regent Street includes 200,000 square feet of office space over seven floors


It's obviously being well taken care of now.

A few apartments for rent ranging from £800..00 to £1400..00 per week.

This is a prime location.