Royal spotting

Today is our last day in London, we fly out early Wednesday morning and arrive back in Charlottesville early in the evening.

Today we did another guided walk, "Hidden London", which went around Covent Garden and over to the Royal Courts of Justice where we found this charming pub that we went back to for lunch.

As we were walking back to the hotel the police had traffic stopped on Aldwych near the front of our hotel. We paused to wait for a moment in front Aldwych House, a motorcycle escort pulled up followed by a black sedan, and Princess Anne stepped out not 20 feet from us and walked into Aldwych House, presumably for some function happening at the London School of Economics.

So our fifth visit to London ends with our first royal spotting. It was a bit of an amusement for us and I've had the feeling that the royals are more of a tourist attraction than anything else. None of the locals we've heard from had anything much nice to say about them.