Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum

Mum and I had a leisurely Good Friday morning. Got out around 11:00am to Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. We headed down Whitehall where the government offices are located.

We got coffee and hot chocolate and a coissant to share. Passed Downing Street and the mounted guards. Good views of Big Ben and the London Eye.

Went straight away to Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum. The Cabinet War Rooms is where Winston Churchill, his staff, and British Ministers directed the war during World War II. The rooms have been restored to the condition they were in at the end of the war in 1945. It is really well put together and intersting.

I'm reading a book on the worst night of the blitz, 10 May 1941, and it rather brought it all together. The Churchill Museum is also part of the Cabinet War Rooms. A highly interactive museum with tonnes of information, videos, memorabilia, etc. on Winston Churchill. It was actually bit overwhelming.
We had a lovely lunch at the canteen in the Cabinet War Rooms mid-way through.

Once we were out we headed over to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.

Westminster was not open for touristing as it was Good Friday. Mom was tired (jet lag finally catching up with her I think). We jumped on a double-decker bus for home.

Mom wanted to let Aunt Donna know what she was doing so we called from the bus. Good laugh.

Our bus let us off at Oxford Circus where we switched to another bus that took us back to my flat.