We arrive and are secured to the dock before 6:00. A number of passengers are leaving the ship here. We are scheduled for a 10 hour tour of London.
Room service does much better today. The coffee is hot and most everything is delivered. Well I got the cereal and milk, only the sugar was missing.
Off to the theater. The trek to the bus waiting area is long. I am not the last to arrive but almost at 38th out of 40.
Again the weather is cooperating. The forecast rain stays away. Traffic is very light, probably because of it being Saturday and the Easter holiday.
We are scheduled to have lunch at an English pub at noon, but arrive 45 minutes early.
We are seated and served very quickly. The tavern being unorganized, our tour guide helps deliver beverages, but not until everyone is nearly finished with their food. Maybe that is English custom even though I prefer a beverage with my food.
The location is in the heart of London, across the street from London tower and under light rail tracks. A train passed over about every 5 minutes. The building over the pub was added many years after the pub. Support columns pass thru the pub and the old brickwork.
Fish and chips, and in my case a hamburger, we're good.
After a few hours to shop and sightsee we were on our way back to the ship. Today we will get back long before our scheduled time.
In all fairness this is the first tour out of Dover to London in almost a year.
Several cruise lines stopped calling on Dover because of increased docking fees. The tour operators are out of practice. Going to London we used a new tunnel that has been open about 10 days.
On the return trip we took one of the oldest tunnels, one about 2 centuries old, originally dug for horses and wagons.
Tonight the clocks go ahead again. We are scheduled to departure the ship about 7:15 for our bus trip from Rotterdam to Amsterdam.