On a Tour de France theme this year, due to it being on the same day as the start of that event, several teams headed off on foot around London answering questions and looking out for landmarks that we had briefly (60 seconds?) been shown at the start!
Well I’ve never been a particularly fast walker so the pace of this one came as a bit of a shock – the timescale left us no time for dawdling around sightseeing, but we did visit some particularly scenic parts of London, taking in St James’ Park and Palace, The Mall, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square, The Strand, to name just a few, plus some interesting parts that you wouldn’t normally see if you did the normal tourist type routes. We saw the English home of tea (Twinings in the Strand), a strange white cube shaped building (aparently a work of art in its own right) somewhere near the London School of Economics, and the fountains at Somerset House (home of the dreaded Inland Revenue). Actually when I said we saw the fountains, we actually walked right through the middle of them – most refreshing!!
The treasure hunt began and ended on a boat on the Thames opposite the London Eye, which was most scenic as dusk fell and the lights came on.
The results of the Treasure Hunt, as far as our team went were disappointing, but that certainly didn’t spoil the day. No-one quite had the energy for the nightclub on the boat afterwards, however!
Christine T