London is a great spot to layover when traveling between Europe and North
America. Unfortunately we were at the end of 5 weeks in
Europe. It was a hectic day and we were ready to be done with our
travels. We caught one of the hop on hop off tour buses. We saw 10 Downing St, St
Paul's, the Eye, the Tower Bridge, the Parliament and Westminster Abbey. We ran out of time so we had to abandon the tour and hurry back to the airport. The return flight on a 747 was as smooth as could be. Unlike the way over, there was no pressure to close the window shades. With brief breaks in the clouds, I got amazing views of icy peaks in Greenland, ice flows that looked like a gigantic shattered windshields and a blue iced bay against sheer peaks in Baffin Island. We set foot in Vancouver and it felt like we’d never been away.
