Buckingham Palace Tour

On recommendation from James and Emma, we bought our tickets along with thousands of other tourists to go and visit the inside of Buckingham Palace, which is only open for 8 weeks a year.
Getting off at the Hyde Park corner tube we started to walk down to the palace. Hamish quickly spotted a turquoise Koenigsegg super car that is owned by Qatari Royal Family who recently purchased Harrods. All their cars are their royal blue colour.

Hamish thought he would go with matching attire of this £1.2m Koenigsegg CCXR

After pulling Hamish away from the car we headed to the palace. The Palace puts up all these temporary structures during the summer months while the Queen is at Balmoral. And in true English style, the process of getting inside was totally confusing and required numerous of staff to stand around.

Once inside it is obvious that this palace was one that was still fully operational compared to other palaces we had seen that seemed to go over the top with the amount of furniture etc. The palace housed heaps of paintings, sculptures and other works of art.

The tour also included an exhibition on the Queen’s year that most people on the tour seemed to be interested in. From what we saw it looks like all she does is go to ceremonies and garden parties. Pretty sweet life, and she gets 8 weeks off every summer!

Even the coffees were royal

The tour ended with a visit to the garden café, which was just gorgeous, we had tea and scones as you do and then wandered around the garden a bit.

 Overall, a good visit but not one we will be rushing back to.  

Highlight: The scones. Not full strawberries, and not full jam but somewhere in between. Lowlight: The queuing system to get in. Sort out palace officials! 
Interesting fact: The Palace was bombed 9 times during World War 2, yet the King and Queen refused to leave London.