{"id":731,"date":"2013-08-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=731"},"modified":"2013-08-12T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:59:34","slug":"day-7-more-london-and-then-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Day 7 &ndash; More London and then Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick breakfast in the room and packing our things for the trip home, we headed out by taxi to London pier to catch a river cruise.&nbsp; It was a little overcast, but still OK for a quick tour before heading back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P8112193\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8112193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112193.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112194.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P8112210\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8112210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112210.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112213.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P8112224\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8112224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112224.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112235.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112246.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>Once the boat docked, we walked back to the Savoy along the river.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112260.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P8112259\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8112259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112259.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<p>Here is the Savoy Pier in front of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P8112282\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P8112282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112282.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And here is the river entrance to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" border=\"0\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/ParisLondon2013\/P8112300.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"432\"> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After returning to the room, we made our way to the lobby as we had an airport transfer arranged to pick us up at noon.&nbsp; We waited in the lobby for the car and were quickly on our way to Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n<p>We got checked in for our flight, browsed the duty free shop and again waited in the lounge and had some lunch before boarding.&nbsp; It was a comfortable return flight with good meals and I was able to finally get mostly caught up writing the blog entries.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly need to return to London to see the sights properly.&nbsp; At some point we plan to take a few weeks to tour the UK, and when we do, we\u2019ll be sure to include 3 or 4 days in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a quick breakfast in the room and packing our things for the trip home, we headed out by taxi to London pier to catch a river cruise.&nbsp; 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