High on my list for this trip was going up in the Shard.
125726 The Shard
Though we walked past the base of it, enjoying that spectacular aerial view of London didn’t happen. Instead we went into the amazing and colorful open air Borough Market.
112356 Borough Market
Such a vast variety of prepared food, and everything needed to create your own gourmet meal.
114452 Colorful Bounty
For some reason we snapped relatively few pix this day, but got this as we passed a throng of London cabbies protesting ride services like Uber. It seems cabbies are tested to prove exhaustive familiarity with the city and laws while their competition isn’t.
162535 Protesting Uber
Among the many experiences of that last London day was the view of street life from this raised walkway from the river to Charing Cross Station.
182751 Popular Spot
We paid a second visit to Trafalgar Square, where later that night we saw that one of the lions was somehow lit up a brilliant florescent orange.
183937 Trafalgar Return
By then the storm had left a few ragged clouds accenting the moon for a blurry handheld pic as we ended the day with a short cabbie tour to the park outside Kensington Palace.
9403 Kensington Gardens Moon
Noticing lights and movement inside the palace, we imagined it to be some sort of royal dinner party on the second floor.
9404 Palace Party?
What had seemed during planning to be a very long trip, now felt far too short as we got ready to fly home in the morning with our hearts full of memories.
John & Anne Wiley 
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