Hullo! We are up at a reasonable hour today and headed off to meet up with a Mischief!
It's not far... only a 10 minute walk or so...
We saw this cute little bug hotel along the way!
I wonder who charges them money to stay??!
There we go!! Let the Expedition Begin!
First... we got a bus...
Which, I actually got a not bad picture of afterwards!
It's tricky doing this right... Beanie has it down pat... I'm still learning!
We got off here, at Richmond Station, which is a beary nice art deco building!
Then we caught the District Line tube... which we are going to stay on all the way through London... like 30 or so stops... an hour!
It was pretty busy most of the way but after we went east of the Tower of London, it cleared right up and I got a seat of my own!
Heh-heh!
You could do some bowling in this train right now!
Or... acrobatics... whatever works!
Hang on... we are almost there!!
We got off at Plaistow in East London. That's a lonnggggg way from Richmond, west of London!
We are out in the boonies now...
And caught a bus.
Which dropped us off here!
Yep, we are a cemetery (again!)...
We are hunting for a few memorials...
It's a beary large cemetery and although they provided a map with sections marked on it... they didn't actually tell you where a particular grave was, other than "Section 37). Erg...
Lots of kids buried here too...
Ah, here's the first grave! This is...
The grave of Elizabeth Stride, she was one of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
It's nice to see that she has a headstone and that her grave is tended.
Cause some of them are not!
We headed off looking for more memorials... and found this hollow tree. All it needs is a hobbit door and it would make a perfect little bear den!
We came across a section with massive monuments, out of solid stone ($$$$$ or rather.... £££££). And this one was beary Christmasy.
You just know there are kids buried in this plot.
This is one of the war memorials...
We think it's important to stop and pay our respects.
This is another war memorial.
And next door is the HMS Albion memorial. When the ship was being launched on 21 June1898, a massive wave was created as the ship slid into the Thames. The wave capsized the viewing platforms, drowning 38 civilians (mostly women and children) in one of the worst peacetime Thames disasters.
Here we have a memorial stone to the German spies of the First World War who are buried somewhere in the cemetery, in unmarked graves.
And after a bit of hunting in "Section 4", we found the one WWI spy who actually has a grave stone.
Carl Hans Lody was the first person executed in the Tower after 150 years of no executions. He was also the first German spy executed in WWI. His family later came and erected a gravestone in the 1960s/1970s.
There's another big memorial off to the east.
It's dedicated to the citizens of the area who were killed due to enemy action during the Second World War.
We started wandering back out and came across this memorial... we think the guy liked darts.
Another war memorial. The East London area was pretty hard hit during the Second World War.
It's all beary sad... what people do to each other...
And finally... another plaque for Air Raid Casualties. So sad. There are multiple family members listed here, and a couple of unidentified people. So sad.
Right... we are off... it was nice to come out here and pay our respects.
Now... we need another bus!
Luckily... I'm with the Bus Guru! First... we catch a #69... then we catch a #115!
We sat up top for the #115...
And saw a dog mural!
And a neat looking building.
Oooh... that's the Mission!! It's an art deco building!!!
It goes by soooo fast!
You can tell it's beary nice though!
We moved to the other side cause Beanie said there was another art deco coming shortly...
And there it goes! Dang...
After a while, we were back in the skyscraper area of eastern London... That building looks straight out of Harry Potter!
See... the #115!
We're having lunch at Jack the Chipper!! Cause we are all beary peckish!
It's a beary nice restaurant with a lot of character!
Let's check out the menu...
Hmmm... shall we have fish and chips... or shall we have fish and chips??
Except what sort of fish?? Cod? Haddock? Plaice (??).. Skate?? Rock?? Halibut? and more! We had cod and chips while Beanie & Co had plaice and chips. We'd call that sole or flounder in Canada...
We were flummoxed by this stuff... but it's just vinegar with onion flavouring... interesting...
And of course... we had drinks! The mice had Ginger Beer...
And we had... water. Hmph.
We will get a stiffer drink tonight? Right?
Oh wow!!!
Cute little flag on a toothpick thing!
The fish and chips were excellent!!
And now we can get down to business... getting a stamp in my passport!
Beary nice!
Did I not say it was an epic day?? We're just at lunch time... more later!
More later!
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