woodst-wanderers: Day 2 in London

Karl's day 2 in London (a day for the cricket fan)

Day 2 in London being a tourist – still tired from yesterdays huge walk but had to get up early as I had booked a tour of Lords.

Back into the tubes to Baker street and walked up some very nice streets past very expensive houses to Lords. One of the houses was recently purchased by the King of Oman for 80 million pounds! See the pic!

Lords was really cool, amazing to see the slope on the ground, about 2 metres difference in height from one side of the ground to the other! Also got to go into the players changing rooms, and sit in there, looking at the honours boards (few kiwis like Jacob Oram on the hundreds board, and lots of R Hadlee on the bowling one) and hearing all the amazing stories about the place, seeing the long room, sitting in the committee room, and going out on the members balconys.

The tour was well worth it, 18 pounds for nearly 2 hours and our tour guide was like a walking book of cricket facts.

After all that I strolled back past some more amazing mansions with very flash cars parked outside, and believe it or not, found our house again, or a slightly different version (see photo!) J