Royal Progress day 1

On a warm autumn afternoon we started the tour with a slow stroll around London just north of the Thames into Holborn and Lincoln Inn fields. Lincoln Inn is where Sir Thomas more practiced law and there is a quiet calm around the one of the Inns of Court. We visited the Old Curiosity Shop, made famous by Charles Dickens and Sir John Soanes museum. A place so individual it almost defies a description, he was an architect of some talent and grandeur and his collection of artefacts and paintings is unrivalled. A single room holds original Canneletto, Turner and Hogarth paintings. We completed a pub crawl of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese a pub frequented by Samuel Johnson he who wrote the first English dictionary. The Citie of Yorke London’s oldest pub dating from 1540, the Mitre dating from 1546 just off Hatton Garden, the Punch Tavern on Fleet street the haunt of journalists, finally the Black Friar a pub just by Blackfriars bridge , it is the site of Baynard’s castle where Catherine of Aragon had her marriage annulment trial. A good start to a long Royal Progress tour